Product Description

The Plant              

The Plant is well equipped with highly sophisticated facilities comprising of the material preparation line, heavy and light duty rim lines, a press line having presses of upto ****-ton capacity, an assembly and welding line with CO2 and submerged arc welding machines. The manufacturing is complemented by two conveyorised paint shops with seven stages pretreatment system and the second one comprises of the most modern Cathodic Electro Deposition painting process using latest paints from Kansai Paint Co. Japan. Specialized facilities of shot blasting, tool and die making, repairing, quality assurance material and wheel testing also exist.

The last three years witnessed significant growth in the automobile industry of Pakistan. The rapid growth has been triggered by a regular high growth in economy and increase in the purchasing power of customers. To meet the challenge of ever increasing demand in the country and as well as abroad, BWL brought a wide diversity in the products, currently the company operates on a total land of *7,**0 square meters while plant has covered area of *6,**0 square meters. The annual production capacity has increased from one million wheels to 2.5 million wheels per annum.

Process Improvement

With the assistance of Fontijne Grotnes- Holland, who is one of the best wheel machinery manufacturers, the latest developed process have been installed to produce wheel rims upto *6 diameter. For commercial vehicle wheels process improvement has been implemented with the assistance of Dong Feng China, who is the biggest automobile manufacturers in China. Recently high-tech Spinning Machine for producing Disc of Commercial Vehicle is included in the plant. BWL is now capable to produce Tubeless truck bus wheels and wheels with heavy thickness upto *6mm. During last *0 years we have made investment of Rs. **0 million for the improvement of Plant and machinery for updating our product to meet international quality standard.

 Quality Assurance System:

Quality Assurance System is backed by a laboratory equipped with tensile testing, hardness testing, metallographic and chemical testing equipment. For run-out checking BWL has two online automatic wheel gauging and low point marking station, so that the quality delivered to customers is **0% assured. Following high tech wheel testing facilities are also added in the existing plant for assurance of quality of wheels.   

·        Cornering fatigue testing machine for car & commercial vehicles and

·        Radial fatigue testing machine for car & commercial vehicles.

 Research & Development   

A constant need to come with newer and better modes of production has been the hallmark of BWL corporate philosophy. The R&D department is engaged in development of new products, improvement and upgrading of processes. This department is equipped with CAD/CAM facilities and CNC machines for in-house manufacturing of tooling & spares. BWL has the ability to develop wheels to specific requirement of the customers.