Industry & manufacturing startups in Ludhiana

Paritosh Kumar Garg (founder & MD); Ashish Garg

Incorporated 1979; India's 4th-largest engineering-led maker of complex, safety-critical heavy forged and precision-machined components (crankshafts, transmission parts) for CVs, tractors and off-highway. IP...

Om Prakash Munjal (founder); Pankaj Munjal (Chairman)

Founded 1956 by OP Munjal (part of the four Munjal brothers who moved from Kamalia to Ludhiana). The world's largest integrated bicycle manufacturer by volume — recognised by Guinness in 1986 — producing on ...

Jawahar Lal Oswal (Chairman, Nahar/Oswal group)

Brand launched 1984 by the Nahar/Oswal group; demerged into Monte Carlo Fashions Ltd (FY2011-12) and IPO'd, listed on BSE/NSE 2015. India's leading branded woollen/knitwear player with a dominant share of th...

Oswal group

Listed textile arms of the Nahar/Oswal group (roots in the 1949 Oswal Woollen Mills), among India's larger cotton-yarn spinners and integrated textile makers. Together with Monte Carlo and Cotton County, the...

Vidya Sagar Oswal (founder, 1949)

Flagship of the Nahar Group, founded 1949 — the origin of Ludhiana's modern hosiery & woollen industry. Set up a wool-combing unit in 1972 to enter branded knitwear, which later produced Monte Carlo. Group s...

J.C. Avasthi (founder); Raj Avasthi & Munish Avasthi

Established 1977 under J.C. Avasthi; a vertically integrated yarn, fabric and apparel manufacturer with seven facilities across Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. Announced a ~Rs 1,000 cr greenfield spinning expan...

Rajinder Gupta (founder-promoter)

Founded 1990 by first-generation entrepreneur Rajinder Gupta; a Ludhiana-HQ'd global home-textiles (towels, bedsheets), yarn, paper and chemicals major, Rs 7,000 cr+ income. World's largest terry-towel manuf...

Rattan Chand Oswal (founder); S.P. Oswal (Chairman)

Founded 1965 (as Vardhman Spinning & General Mills); India's largest vertically integrated textile producer — yarn, fabric, sewing thread, acrylic fibre and steel. ~27,000 employees, $1B+ turnover, producing...

Kailash Chander Kalra (founder); Sanjeev & Deepak Kalra

Started 1958 with two manual nut machines; now India's largest industrial-fasteners manufacturer and the worldwide owner of the iconic Unbrako high-tensile fastener brand. Global export presence built from 1...

Onkar Singh Pahwa (Chairman); Rishi & Mandeep Pahwa

Established 1951, the flagship of the Avon Group and one of India's largest bicycle and e-bike makers alongside Hero and Atlas. Family-run (Pahwa family) and vertically integrated — cycles, e-cycles, fitness...

Nahar Industrial Enterprises (Oswal group)

Cotton-focused apparel brand (a subsidiary of the Nahar/Oswal group), built around breathable, natural cotton casualwear. A second branded-apparel arm of the Nahar textile empire beyond Monte Carlo, run out ...

Komal Kumar Jain & Kuntal Raj Jain

Founded 1966; a pioneer of India's T-shirt culture and one of the country's best-known homegrown knitwear/casualwear brands (T-shirts, sweaters, jackets, footwear). A cornerstone Ludhiana apparel manufacture...

Umesh Munjal (founder); Amol & Ankur Munjal

Founded 1971, began with cold-forged components like bicycle freewheels and grew into precision forged and machined auto/tractor components. Another Munjal-lineage engineering firm in Ludhiana's dense forgin...

Hero Group (Munjal family)

Hero Group engineering company rooted in Ludhiana, historically a maker of bicycle and moped/two-wheeler components and complete vehicles (Hero Majestic moped). Part of the Munjal manufacturing complex that ...

Nirmal Kumar Jain (CEO)

Ludhiana-based garment maker (founded 1998) known for innerwear, thermals and sleepwear, increasingly positioned as an internet-first sleepwear brand for men and women. Represents Ludhiana hosiery firms movi...

Established 1991; Ludhiana-based apparel manufacturer and retailer of woollen and cotton garments for men and women — shirts, tees, knitwear, sweatshirts, jackets and jeggings. A mid-scale branded knitwear p...

Om Prakash Pahwa (founder); Sanjeev Pahwa (CMD)

Founded 1974 by Late OP Pahwa & Krishna Rani, starting with bicycle tubes and tyres. India's largest bicycle-tyre & tube producer and exporter (25%+ market share) and has expanded into automobile and truck t...

Brijmohan Lall Munjal (founder, Hero Group)

Set up 1960 (formerly Rockman Cycles) to make bicycle chains and hubs for Hero Cycles; now a major Hero Group automotive-component maker supplying alloy wheels, brakes and drive-chain systems to global OEMs....

Rudra Ecovation (fmr Himachal Fibres)

Cleantech / circular-economy player recycling PET bottle waste into recycled polyester (rPET) fibre, yarn and fabric — capacity cited at 88M+ bottles/day-class processing, among India's top-10 plastic recycl...

Happy Forgings

Heavy forgings and machined components maker (crankshafts, drive-transmission and precision-machined parts for CVs, tractors, off-highway). IPO'd in Dec 2023; ~$29M+ in tracked funding history per Radar. **F...

Deepak Fasteners

Ludhiana's highest-"funded" company by Radar (~$74.3M disclosed) — a high-strength industrial fasteners (bolts/nuts) manufacturer with global operations. **FLAG:** founded 1958, a legacy industrial major, no...

Duke Fashion (Duke Fashions India)

One of Ludhiana's best-known homegrown apparel/knitwear brands (T-shirts, sweaters, winterwear, footwear), led by MD Kuntal Raj Jain; ~4 factories in Ludhiana producing ~70 lakh garments/year. **FLAG:** esta...

Neva Garments

Thermal-wear and innerwear/knitwear brand (~$5.4M tracked funding per Radar); a long-standing Ludhiana winterwear label. **FLAG:** established manufacturer/brand, listed as an ecosystem anchor in the knitwea...