Engineering & Manufacturing
Powering ahead From banks to mobile network operators, IT parks to airports, most businesses in India rely on MRO-TEK to provide them with flawless data connectivity services. The company is also active in the renewable energy sector and develops technology to harness solar power.
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eadquartered in Bangalore, MRO-TEK was started by H Nandi and S Narayanan in 1984. Capitalising on India’s fledgling technology market, the duo entered the niche field of manufacturing hardware. Economising on scale, the company tasted early success when its modems and line drivers, customised for UNIX computers, became popular among major government – owned and private organisations.
Web, the company was ready with its arsenal of LAN-WAN products, line drivers and modems. Growing from strength to strength, the company released its Initial Public Offering (IPO) in 2000. Today MRO-TEK has a cutting edge manufacturing plant spread over 1.75 acres in Electronic City, the nerve centre of Bangalore’s technology industry, and a state-of-the-art Research and Development (R&D) unit at its corporate office situated in a lush 4 acre campus in Hebbal.
The dotcom boom in the mid 1990s fuelled the growth of MRO-TEK. While India was discovering the joys of the World Wide
Moving beyond modems and line drivers, the company now provides a ‘total solution’, which involves the server, modem,
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