The Company was incorporated on 4th August at Calcutta in 1939. Texmaco Ltd is KK Birla Group company. The company has 5 factories on the northern fringe of Kolkata. Its factories are located at Belgharia, Agarpara, Sodepur and Panihati in West Bengal. Texmaco is a diversified engineering company engaged in providing services to core sector projects and process industries within the country and abroad. Its textile machinery division manufactures machinery for textile mills. Its boiler and heavy engineering division manufacturers boilers, super heaters, economizers, chimneys, pressure vessels, bridges and structurals, equipment for chemicals, paper, cement, coke oven and iron and steel factories, coal and other solid material handling and conveying plants, railways, railway rolling stocks.
Steel foundry division makes castings for railway equipment, sugar mill machinery etc. On the structural side, the company had been engaged in the supply of equipment for high-pressure boilers for the well-known DVC thermal power project. Texmaco derives a key portion of its income from large-scale contracts for wagons. The company is looking forward to a major breakthrough in exports from the steel foundry division in the coming years after commissioning of its state of the art foundry. Extensive contacts with global buyers are being established to penetrate the export markets. In the field of hydro-mechanical equipment and structural division, the company`s export during the year 2004-05, both physical and deemed was around Rs 287.8 million.