 A
tiny spark or electric short circuit can lead to a hazardous
fire accident and destroy your valuables. A bit of alertness
and having a fire extinguisher at your disposal can certainly
minimise the level of destruction. Fire extinguishers
cost from a few hundred to a few thousand rupees, but
they can save valuable lives and property worth crores.
Bharati Fire Engineers, with their quality products
will help protect yourself and your assets from fire accidents.
Bharati Fire Engineers are the leading manufacturers,
exporters and suppliers of Fire Fite brand Fire
extinguishers, Safety devices and high pressure Gas
Cylinders of various ranges. The company, established
in 1972, has its factory and headquarters in Mumbai.
Mrs Bhavana Shireesh Thakkar and Mrs RP Thakkar
are the managing partners of the company. It has its regional
office in Hyderabad, which looks after the sales in 16
states in South, East, North-East India, and Union Territories
of Lakshadweep and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. The
regional office is headed by Mr K Pavan Kumar.
 "We
are registered with Director General of Stores and
Disposals (DGS&D) and National Small Industries
and Small Scale Industries (NSCI/SSI). This is essential
to supply our products to central and state government
organisations. Our products are approved by the Marine
Material Department (Director General of Shipping,
Mumbai) of Ministry of Surface Transport, and widely
used in all types of ships and shipping godowns,"
said Mr. Pavan.
Bharati produces about 170 items related to fire extinguishers.
The product range includes Special Dry Powders, Foam
Compounds, Hydrant Systems, Detection Systems, spares
and accessories and refills of various types and capacities
of fire extinguishers, safety items, equipments for various
uses and applications. They also undertake maintenance
contracts of all types of Fire Extinguishers and Fire
Fighting Equipments on monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
 "We
also undertake the SITC (Supply, Installation, Testing,
Commissioning) jobs of the Smoke Detection, Fire
Hydrant and various Gases and Powders flooding system
on turn key basis. We have an all India network for the
sales and after sales service. The Hyderabad region has
16 residential executives, who look after the sales and
service," explained Pavan.
All the products of Bharati come with ISI quality mark,
and the company is an ISO 9002 QA certified. The
clientele of Bharati Fire Engineers includes most of the
central and state government agencies and departments
like Indian Navy, Bharat Petroleum, Gujarat State Electricity
Board and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
The Hyderabad-based companies which are utilising the
services of Bharati are Aurobindo Pharma, AP Genco,
AP Transco, Priyadarshini Cements, etc.
 "In
the year 2000-2001 we bagged two significant orders from
Eastern Navy, Vizag worth Rs. 12 lakh and from
AP Transco worth RS 27 lakh. The turnover of the
Hyderabad region is about RS 2.2 crore which is one-third
of the total company's turnover (RS 6 crores). We are
trying our level best to increase our turnover by 50%
in the year 2001-2002," said Pavan.
Bharati is one of the leading companies which provides
the customers with cylinder testing certificate
along with the product issued by Chief Controller of
Explosives, Government of India, which assures the
quality of the product.
Address: Bharati Fire Engineers, A/54,
Madhura Nagar, Ameerpet, Hyderabad - 500 038 Phone:
375 7427 Fax: 375 7427
H.O. & Factory: Bharati Fire Engineers,
Anupam Industrial Estate, LBS Marg, Mulund(W), Mumbai
- 400 080. Phone: 588 1269. Fax: 568 4298.
E-mail: bharatifire@eth.net |
