Tandon Group: Electronics Manufacturing company India, IT Services, Outsourcing services provider

Electronics Manufacturing company India: Tandon Technology Ventures

The Tandon Group has a rich legacy of providing entrepreneurial and innovative solutions for many premier high technology companies. The Tandon organization took shape in 1978 as Tandon Magnetics, when the first magnetic recording heads were manufactured for floppy disk drives. The products made their way into the first generation of the IBM PC. Since then there has been no looking back. We count many premier global brands as key customers with whom we have developed business partnerships since then: Compaq, Dell, IBM, Apple and Western Digital. Some of the products manufactured over the years have included: Disk Drives, Memory Modules, Power Supplies / Adapters, DC Motors, Fiber Optic Assemblies & a variety of electronic components. .

KEY EVENTS AND MILESTONES:

1978	Founded Tandon Magnetics. Manufactured the first floppy drive for the IBM PC with innovative technology and low cost. Invented the double sided floppy disk drive head. Follow on enterprises designed and manufactured various storage related components including stepper motors, HDD HSA, and complete hard disk drives.

1983	Tandon Corporation became a leading manufacturer of hard disk drives in the early PC era, and the first company to establish HDD manufacturing in Singapore. The Singapore HDD design and manufacturing operations were later merged with Western Digital’s chip controller division which has evolved into one of the leading hard drive OEM brands.

1985	Began producing power supplies and other IT peripherals

1990	Early supplier of turnkey PC and IT systems to the India and South Asia markets.

1996	Established Tandon Information Solutions (TIS) that offers complete software solutions for growth oriented businesses worldwide. Operations include 3 development centers in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai. Services span software development, customer claims and AP BPO to order management.

1998	Developed innovative processes that enable highly competitive and high quality memory module and flash memory manufacturing in the India subcontinent for PCs / servers and mobile applications and later expanded with global fulfillment centers.

2000	Established Celetronix as the first world class EMS based in India. Celetronix offered both EMS services for the consumer and IT market segments and precision component production for power supplies, custom magnetic assemblies, and Fiber optic assemblies. Celetronix grew into the largest EMS in India, and was often recognized as the largest electronics exporter from India. The EMS portion of the business was sold to Jabil Circuit in 2006.

2004	Established Syrma Technology and introduced a complete line of RFID (radio frequency identification) tags and transponders offering OEMs a partner capable of design and manufacturing of customized tags for wide ranging applications. Enhanced Syrma’s product and manufacturing expertise to include custom magnetic components

2006	Memory Electronics Pvt. Ltd. (MEPL) started operations as a licensed manufacturer of Defense equipment, approved by the Ministry of Defense, Government of India. MEPL adds two manufacturing units in Nasik and Mumbai, that offer total state of the art solutions to customers in the field of defense electronics.

2007	Acquired 3G Wireless as a wholly owned subsidiary of MEPL. 3G Wireless serves as a consultancy focused on providing turnkey mission critical communications solutions to the Public Safety, Law Enforcement, Hospitality and Industrial segments in India.

2007	Expanded Syrma Technology’s manufacturing facilities and added Electronics Manufacturing Services, with a focus on the Industrial, Telecommunications, Medical and Defense markets.

2008	Acquired Tovya Automation with an experienced embedded technology development organization. Tovya is a supplier of products and services for fast growing Machine2Machine and Telematics segments. The design team is experienced in embedded IT, Industrial and Wireless Communication markets. This addition adds the ability to offer embedded / ODM solutions in selected industrial market verticals.