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The first Indian ordnance factory can trace its origins back to the year 1712 when the Dutch Ostend Company established a Gun Powder Factory in Ichhapur. [25] In 1787, another gunpowder factory was established at Ichapore ; it began production in 1791, and the site was later used as a rifle factory, beginning in 1904.
The area around the Fort was cleared, and the Maidan became "the Lungs of Kolkata". It stretches for around 3 km in the north–south direction and is around 1 km wide. [4] The headquarters of the Indian Ordnance Factories was established in 1775 at Fort William. [5] Today, Fort William is the property of the Indian Army.
Ordnance Factory Board is engaged in research, development, production, testing, marketing and logistics of a comprehensive product range in the areas of air, land and sea systems. It comprises forty-one Ordnance Factories, nine Training Institutes, three Regional Marketing Centres and four Regional Controllerates of Safety, which are spread ...
Ordnance Factory Dum Dum. Ordnance Factory Dum Dum is a modern factory with unique high precision machining systems such as laser cutting, CNC-operated injection moulding and CNC machines for carrying out stringent quality products. The factory was initiated when Robert Clive recaptured Calcutta from Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, in ...
The institute was established in 1920 under Lt. Col. L. De Lenfestey, then Superintendent of the Rifle Factory, Ishapore, during British rule. It has held a prominent position within the Ordnance Factories and the industry, known for the quality of its training and the success of its alumni, many of whom have attained high positions in ...
Yantra India Limited is an Indian major public sector defence company, headquartered in Nagpur, India.Established in 2021 as part of the government’s restructuring and corporatisation of the Ordnance Factory Board into seven different Public Sector Undertakings – the company consists of eight defence manufacturing factory units indigenously catering to the needs of supplies, arms ...
The factory more particularly is controlled by Ordnance Equipment Factories [3] Group having its headquarters at Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, which itself is a key operating division under Ordnance Factory Board (OFB). [citation needed] Among the approximately forty factories under Indian Ordnance Factories, there are two Ordnance Clothing ...
Ordnance Cable Factory Chandigarh (Hindi: आयुध केबल फैक्टरी चंडीगढ़) is a facility under Ordnance Factories Board, Kolkata. It manufactures transmission cables and steel wires mainly for defense and telecommunication sector.