Bansal Wire Industries (BWIL)  unveiled its largest manufacturing facility in Dadri, bolstering India’s push to expand its manufacturing and infrastructure sectors. The 37-acre plant increases BWIL’s total manufacturing sites to five, with one in Bahadurgarh and three in Ghaziabad. The company’s production capacity has risen to 6 million metric tonnes per annum from 2.4 million tonnes previously.

The advanced facility produces specialised wires for diverse sectors, including agriculture, automotive, construction, power transmission, and general engineering. For the automotive industry, the plant manufactures steel wires, hose wires, and low-relaxation pre-stressed concrete steel strands used in bullet trains and metro systems.

The Dadri operation integrates industrial-scale processes with sustainability practices, including rainwater harvesting, solar power generation, acid-free wire cleaning and energy-efficient machinery. An on-site effluent treatment plant and landscaped areas are also featured. A new section for speciality wires was added this quarter, with IT/OT (Internal/Outer) wires coming soon.

Manufacturing Capabilities

The plant produces high-carbon steel wire, valued for its wear resistance and strength, making it suitable for door panels, vehicle frames, bushings, springs, and other automotive components. The facility also manufactures bead wire, a low-carbon wire with properties including weldability, ductility, high strength, fatigue resistance, adhesion to rubber, and malleability. Visible at the edge of a tyre, bead wire secures the tyre to the rim. Some wires receive zinc coating to increase corrosion resistance.

The bead wire production process follows multiple stages: procuring high-carbon steel rods, drawing high-tensile steel wire, passing through a lead bath, washing in an HCL tank, drying via heat treatment, applying zinc and copper coatings to form brass, wiping excess coating, cooling with chemical additives, collecting the wires and reducing them to thin filaments for those wires.

Each wire is drawn differently based on customer requirements before passing through Chinese and Indian furnaces. A 30-metre furnace operating at 980-1000°C restores wire properties after initial processing. After cleaning the HCL tank, zinc and copper coatings are applied. The chemical and subsequent stages occur in air-conditioned environments to maintain wire properties during separation into filaments. The 0.2mm filaments are combined to achieve 1.6-2.4mm thicknesses for commercial and TBR (Truck, Bus, and Radial) tyres.

The Dadri plant also produces hose wires and steel cords that enhance tyre strength, performance and stability. Additionally, it manufactures stainless steel wires that provide aesthetic appearance, corrosion and staining resistance, and low maintenance costs for automotive applications.

Business Performance

As a diversified wire manufacturer, BWIL reports 89 percent client retention and 20-25 percent year-on-year sales growth. Exports constitute 10-15 percent of total sales, with 75 percent destined for US and European markets. Pranav Bansal noted that despite China’s dominance in steel exports, India shows "tremendous positivity” for steel and stainless-steel wires.

He dismissed concerns about US reciprocal tariffs, explaining that with exports limited to 10 percent, the company maintains growth above 20 percent. BWIL’s revenue increased 52 percent in Q3FY25, and profits rose 171 percent.

Regarding price fluctuation, Pravin Bansal said, “We follow a cost + business model at BWIL. While the prices of steel change every month, the prices of stainless steel undergo change daily. The prices are revised as soon as there is a change, ensuring that there is no lag across 90 percent of products.”

He added, "Business works on quantity terms, not on revenue. Instead, revenue is a function of raw materials, and we’ve never given too much attention to the former.” However, he acknowledged that some automotive product prices fluctuate quarterly, creating a lag for products like bead wires and suspension spring wires, with costs passed on in subsequent quarters.

Expansion Plans

Pranav Bansal outlined the company's growth strategy: "Our business model is such that we can keep investing as per the needs of our customers. We don't need to wait for a specific capacity to be established before commencing business; we can expand on a to-go basis.”

For FY26, BWIL plans a 42-acre Sanand, Gujarat plant focused on low carbon and stainless steel wires. The INR 800-900 million facility will include 0.18 million tonnes of backward integration capacity and 60,000 tonnes of new wire production.

Currently serving 5,000 customers with 4,000 SKUs, BWIL's long-term strategy involves developing products with zero price fluctuation, which Pranav Bansal describes as "most helpful for the company’s supply chain cycle."

The company contributes to India's electric vehicle sector, which recorded sales of 1.94 million units by end-2024, with Tata Motors leading the market. BWIL's steel cords and specialised wires offer high tensile strength with reduced weight for EV applications. The company also produces copper-coated and aluminium-stranded wires for electric vehicles.

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