JAI (Jamna Auto Industries Limited) is an Indian multinational suspension system automotive company headquartered in

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. It produces various types of springs including tapered or multileaf, parabolic spring, lift axle suspension and air suspension systems. It has its manufacturing unit in

Yamuna Nagar Yamunanagar (), is a city and a municipal corporation in Yamunanagar district in the Indian state of Haryana. This town is known for the cluster of plywood units and paper industries. It provides timber to larger industries. The older town is ...

, Malanpur (near

Gwalior Gwalior() is a major city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh; it lies in northern part of Madhya Pradesh and is one of the Counter-magnet cities. Located south of Delhi, the capital city of India, from Agra and from Bhopal, the s ...

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, Hosur (near Bangalore), Rudrapur and

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and its products are sold in over 25 countries.

History

Bhupinder Singh Jauhar started the spring business in 1954 in a small shop in Yamuna Nagar. The company has diversified its range by adding lift axle and air suspension products under technical collaboration with Ridewell Corporation, USA. The Company is the market leader with 66% market share in the India OEM segment and produces over 410 modes of springs for OEMs. Domestic after market operations are being looked after by subsidiary entity i.e. Jai Suspension Systems LLP (LLP). The LLP has expanded its presence across 390 towns in the country with the product range of over 4200 part numbers. The Company has indigenous R&D Centre recognized by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and has the capability to design multi, parabolic leaf springs, lift axles and air suspension for all automobile applications. The R&D Centre has facility of in-house validation and testing of products using a servo actuator to simulate actual vehicle conditions.

Operations

The Company has eight manufacturing facilities located at

Malanpur Malanpur is an Industrial Area in Bhind District of Madhya Pradesh, being managed by the Madhya Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Formerly known as AKVN Gwalior). Geography Malanpur is located 10 km outside Gwalio ...

(near Gwalior),

(two units – Maraimalai Nagar & Pillaipakkam),

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, and Pant Nagar (under subsidiary entity). In six of the plants mainly automotive springs are manufactured. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Jai Suspension Systems LLP (JSSLLP) has a plant at Pant Nagar in

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Products

Jamna Auto Industries Limited designs and manufactures wide range of springs to meet requirements of * Heavy commercial vehicles * Medium commercial vehicles * Light commercial vehicles * Sport utility vehicles * Trailers and Air suspension systems

Customers

Jamna Auto exports automotive parts to more than 50 companies in over 25 countries. Some of the large customers of JAI are as follows: *

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, India *

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, Japan

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