Mr. Girdhar Akbari - founder of Atcraft Innovations, a Jamnagar, Gujarat, India manufacturer and exporter of precision brass components - inserts, fasteners, anchors, plumbing and electrical parts, pneumatic fittings and forged components - made across three plants and shipped to more than thirty-five countries on a commitment to quality and in-time dispatch.
Precision brass, made for the world.
I'm Girdhar Akbari, founder of Atcraft Innovations - a Jamnagar manufacturer and exporter of precision brass components. From inserts and fasteners to plumbing, electrical and pneumatic parts, we make to specification across three plants and ship to more than thirty-five countries - on one commitment: quality and in-time dispatch, every order.
About the entrepreneur.
The founder of a Jamnagar brass-components maker and exporter.
Girdhar Akbari is an industrialist from Jamnagar, Gujarat, and the founder of Atcraft Innovations Private Limited - a manufacturer and exporter of precision brass components. The business began in 1994 as Nandan Brass Industries, a small brass workshop, and has grown into a vertically integrated maker that takes brass from raw material to finished, packed component across three plants in the heart of Asia's brass cluster.
Atcraft makes the small, precise brass parts that larger products depend on - inserts, fasteners and hex nuts, anchors, plumbing and PPR fittings, electrical switch and switchgear parts, pneumatic and conduit fittings, and forged and machined components. These parts go into the electrical, electronic, automobile, plumbing, sanitary and hardware industries, made to a customer's specification and finish, and shipped to more than thirty-five countries.
The discipline that built the firm is simple and unchanging: quality and in-time dispatch, every order. A brass component is a small part of a larger assembly, so it has to arrive right and on time, every time - and that is what a customer remembers. Vertical integration, owned machinery and control of the whole process from material to dispatch are how Atcraft holds that standard at scale.
Beyond the business, Girdhar is a believer in the Jamnagar brass cluster - the skills, the supply chain and the people who have made it one of the most capable brass-manufacturing ecosystems anywhere - and an open door for first-generation founders building in manufacturing and exports.
Close to the work - the desk, the floor, and the finish.
The small, precise brass parts larger products depend on.
Atcraft makes the brass components that go inside other people's products - inserts, fasteners, plumbing and electrical parts, anchors and machined components. None of them is glamorous; all of them have to fit, hold and arrive on time, every order.
01Brass Inserts
Threaded and moulding brass inserts - the small parts that give plastic and assembled products a durable metal thread, machined to a precise fit.
02Brass Fasteners
Hex nuts, bolts, screws and allied fasteners in brass - the everyday fixings that have to hold, made to size and standard, batch after batch.
03Plumbing & PPR Fittings
Brass plumbing fittings, PPR fittings, extension nipples and spindles - the connectors a water or gas line is built from, where the thread and the seal cannot fail.
04Electrical Parts
Switch pins, switchgear and transformer parts, battery terminals and electrical components - precision brass for the electrical and electronic industries.
05Brass Anchors
Brass anchors and fixing hardware - the parts that hold a fitting to the wall, machined to grip and to last.
06Precision Components
Forged and machined brass components, auto parts and customised turned parts - made to a customer's drawing and specification, from one part to a full programme.
Four roles. One operator.
His day-to-day cuts across making, operating, mentoring and backing the cluster - the same hands-on instinct, applied four ways.
The Maker
A maker of precision brass components - taking brass from raw material to a finished, packed part across three vertically integrated plants. The work is making small, exact things well, in the heart of Asia's brass cluster.
The Operator
Close to the floor and the customer. The day-to-day is making parts to a drawing and a standard and getting them out on time - because a brass component is one piece of a larger assembly, and it has to arrive right and on schedule, every order.
The Exporter
Atcraft ships precision brass components to more than thirty-five countries. Exporting parts is a discipline of consistency - the same part, to the same specification, shipment after shipment, in markets that judge a maker on reliability.
The Mentor
An open door for first-generation founders and family-business operators in manufacturing and exports. The conversations are direct and practical - quality discipline, dispatch, working capital, and building something a customer comes back to.
Four roles, one instinct - make the thing well, hold the standard, and earn the next order. The same discipline applied to every piece and every customer.
The horizon.
Make precision brass so reliably that the world keeps reordering it.
Jamnagar makes brass for the world, and has done for generations. The opportunity is to take that heritage and raise it - to be the maker a serious manufacturer chooses because the parts are always right and always on time. That means leading on the things that actually matter in components: precision, consistency, and a dispatch a customer can plan around.
That ambition started in a small Jamnagar workshop in 1994 and now reaches manufacturers in more than thirty-five countries across the electrical, automobile, plumbing and hardware industries. The goal is to grow it further - widening the range, deepening the precision, and holding the quality and dispatch bar on every part, in every plant, in every market.
"To make precision brass components so well, and dispatch them so reliably, that a customer anywhere in the world can build us into their product without a second thought - and to carry the standard Jamnagar set in brass to every market we reach."
Quality, every order
A brass component goes inside someone else's product. There is no room for a weak part - so quality is built into the process, checked at every stage, and never traded for speed.
In-time dispatch
A part that is right but late still stops a customer's line. Dispatching on time, order after order, is half the promise - and the half a customer plans their own production around.
Vertical integration
From raw material to finished, packed part under one roof, across owned plants and machinery. Controlling the whole process is how a maker controls cost, quality and delivery instead of inheriting someone else's.
Consistency is the product
The sample is easy; the ten-thousandth part is the test. A customer building us into their product is trusting that the next batch is exactly like the last - and protecting that trust is the whole job.
Made to specification
Much of the work is to a customer's own drawing, thread and finish. Making exactly what was specified, from one part to a full programme, is how a components maker earns a long relationship.
Integrity and transparency
Excellence, hard work, integrity, passion and transparency - the values the firm was built on. A components business runs on trust across borders, and trust is earned the slow, honest way.
Long-form notes, from a maker's point of view.
Operating notes on making precision brass components - quality, consistency, tolerances, finish and earning the reorder. Written as a maker sees it, not as marketing copy.
- Making brass hardware that lasts
- Why consistency is the real product
- Finish - what the hand judges
- Building in the Jamnagar brass cluster
How to choose a brass-component supplier - what actually matters
An OEM buyer is not really buying a part. They are buying a maker who will deliver that part right, the same way, on time, for years. Notes on what to evaluate before you place the order - and the red flags worth walking away from.
Made to specification - working with a components maker on custom parts
A custom brass part starts as a drawing and ends as a programme of tens of thousands of identical pieces. The journey between the two - samples, tooling, tolerances, approvals - is where the part is really made. A maker's guide to getting it right.
Brass inserts explained - the metal thread inside a plastic part
A plastic housing cannot hold a screw for long on its own. The brass insert is the small machined part that gives it a real, reusable thread. What inserts are, where they go, the main types, and why brass.
Let's talk.
Get in touch
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