Established in 1960 in technical and financial collaboration with AMBROSE SHARDLOW & CO. LTD., U.K., a leading manufacturer of forged and Machined Crankshafts was a unit of M/s. GKN Forgings, M/s British Steel Forgings, and M/s. UEF Ltd, over the years. Under the leadership of late Sri S.Ananthakrishnan, the Founder-Chairman of the group, Amalgamations ventured in to a number of manufacturing enterprises. Right after the Independence in 1947, the Group entered in to collaboration with overseas manufacturers as a carefully planned strategy to meet the imperatives of industrialization. Shardlow India was one such venture promoted by Simpson & Co Ltd in 1960 for manufacture of Forgings. The Amalgamations Group, a conglomerate of 52 companies, is engaged in diverse range of activities like manufacture of Auto Components, Engines, Agricultural Implements, Plantations, Distribution, a variety of Service Industries and Exports. The Group has been able to forge technical collaborations with world leaders like Perkins Ltd., Massey Ferguson, A.E Group, GKN/UEF, Gould Inc., Clevite Corporation, Repco and LM Van Moppes. Yuasa Battery Company, NPR and Nippon Oils & Fats and DAIDO are the recent linkages in the group.