In 2005, Raymond Ltd. set-up J.K. Talabot Ltd., a joint venture between the company and MOB Outillage SA of France, an international group manufacturing agri, hand and construction tools. Our skilled manpower backed by the technical expertise in machinery & equipments from MOB Outillage SA create the perfect synergies to produce world-class products. This new facility will churn out over five lakh dozen files and rasps per annum. We will also produce Talabot branded high-end premium files, marketed by J.K. Files & Tools.

Our state-of-the-art plant boasts of the modern machinery which operates on programmable logic control (PLC). Operations such as forging and teeth cutting are automated with conveyors, walking beams and manipulators. Scouring, washing, emulsion spraying and drying operations are carried out in unique automated module.

Our entire plant is divided into four value streams based on the concept of "Cropping to Carton" for major product lines. The main plant building is 5000 Square meters without any column support in between thus facilitating high degree of flexibility for plant layout.

Some of the technologically superior processes installed are:

• A 'robotic hardening furnace' and Programmable Logic controlled transfer lines.
• A hardening robot who is a 'pick and place' robot covers salt bath soaking and quenching operations done on files