|
Year |
Brief History |
|
1983 |
KHOSLA ENGINEERS, founded by Rajesh Khosla, a
professional design engineer, became operational for manufacturing
wax paper wrapping machines at Mohali, India. |
|
1983 |
Sold first wrapping machine OW 21. |
|
1984 |
Obtained first patent - an ongoing process
there after. |
|
1987 |
Introduced wrapping machine OW51S for
detergent bars and laundry soap. Sold first machine to Stepan
Chemicals, a wholly owned unit of Hindustan Lever. Impressed by
performance of the machine, the company replaced all its machines
with OW51S. All these machines are still operational. |
|
1989 |
Developed horizontal from fill and seal
machine. |
|
1993 |
Exported first machine OW51S to Zimbabwe. |
|
1994 |
Expanded capacity of Mohali unit. Added
15,000 square feet of constructed area. |
|
1995 |
Mohali unit, Khosla Machines, became a
private limited company. |
|
1996 |
Khosla Machines Pvt. Ltd. received its single
biggest order of 51 detergent bar wrapping machines from Nirma Ltd.,
the largest detergent bar producers of India. |
|
1997 |
Introduced toilet soap wrapping machine
WRAPPER-2000T. |
|
1998 |
Installed Proprietary Computerized Inventory
System (for machine components) |
|
1999 |
Installed CNC machining centre and CAD/CAM
system. |
|
2000 |
Introduced new model WRAPPER 2001 and WRAPPER
2001T, for packing soap. |
|
2002 |
Sold 500th machine in December 2002. |
|
2003 |
Introduced WRAPPER 4000 & WRAPPER 4000T
high speed soap wrapping machines. |