As Engeetech Engineerings prepares to exhibit at Die & Mould India 2026, its founder Harish Chouhan reflects on a 15-year journey of turning raw ambition into precision-engineered reality: one vise, one component, one client at a time. When Harish Chouhan started Engeetech Engineerings in 2010, he was not chasing a trend. He had spotted something that frustrated him: Indian manufacturers were either spending heavily on imported tooling or settling for domestic products that did not perform consistently. There was a genuine gap, and he decided to fill it. He set up shop in Indore’s Sanwer Road industrial area and started manufacturing. No shortcuts, no trading, just making things properly. Fifteen years later, the company is still standing in the same place, and the products have gotten better every year.
Fifteen Years of Making Things That Cannot Fail
Engeetech Engineerings today spans 15,000 square feet and produces a range of precision-engineered products: machine vises, FRP automotive components, rubber seals, brackets, and sheet metal fabrications. Across industries from automotive to railways to pharmaceuticals, these are the kinds of components that nobody notices when they work and everybody notices when they don’t.
The machine vise has become the product Engeetech is most known for. It is a workholding device used on milling and CNC machines to grip a component while it is being cut or shaped. Simple in concept, unforgiving in execution.
“The vise is the foundation,” says Chouhan. “If it moves, the part is wrong. It doesn’t matter how good the machine is.”
A Range Built for People Who Know the Difference
Engeetech’s product line: pull-down vises, compact vises, universal swivel vises, self-centring vises, and precision modular systems running from 2 inches to 12 inches, is manufactured from ductile iron and cast iron, machined in-house. The products carry ISO 9001:2015 certification, and more importantly, they are sold at price points that do not require a procurement manager to write a justification memo.
The clients who found their way to Engeetech were not charitable about it. Force Motors, Shivam Auto Components, Satarawala Engineering, these are companies with zero tolerance for suppliers who cannot maintain consistency. That Engeetech has kept these relationships over years says something no brochure can. “Our job is to make sure what leaves this facility is exactly what the customer needs. That’s it,” Harish states.
Why Die & Mould India 2026
TAGMA India’s 14th Biennial Die & Mould India International Exhibition is scheduled for April 21–24, 2026 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai. For Engeetech, exhibiting here is a deliberate step forward. The previous edition brought in around 38,000 visitors from automotive, aerospace, machine tools, plastics, heavy engineering, and medical sectors, with nearly half being decision-makers. That is precisely the audience Engeetech wants in front of its products.
Chouhan’s approach to the exhibition is characteristically direct: “A decision-maker in a tool room picks up a vise and within thirty seconds they know if it is right or not. The geometry, the feel of the jaw movement, the finish on the surfaces. You cannot fake that. We are not going to Mumbai to tell people our vises are good. We are going to let them figure it out themselves.”
Make in India Is Not a Favour
What Engeetech represents at Die & Mould India 2026 is a specific kind of argument, that quality manufacturing does not require a metro address or a foreign collaboration agreement, that a company built in Indore’s industrial heartland can produce tooling that belongs in the same conversation as anything imported. It is an argument India’s manufacturing ecosystem needs more companies to make. The push toward localisation across automotive, defence, and capital goods is real, but it only means something if domestic alternatives are genuinely good. Chouhan is clear-eyed about this.
“Make in India is not a favour to domestic manufacturers. It is a challenge,” he says. “It means customers will give you a chance once. What you do with that chance is entirely your problem.” Engeetech has spent fifteen years preparing for that one chance, given again and again, and making enough of it to still be here. Die & Mould India Expo 2026 will spotlight advances in tooling, mould-making, precision manufacturing, and CNC machining, and somewhere in that conversation, a company from Sanwer Road will be making its case the way it always has. Through the product.
