MILESTONES: ● 1999 ○ Started as Vignesh Engineering, with 1 Service Engineer and 1 Application Engineer ● 2000 ○ Lokesh Machine LTD and Gedee Weiler Pvt. Ltd becomes the First Principal to partner with Vignesh Engineering Installed the first machine from Gedee Weiler for clients Alpump, Wabco TVS and a few other tier 1 suppliers ○ First installation of Profile Projectors from Mitoya Instruments ● 2002 ○ Imported Machines and Principals from outside India join Vignesh Engineering ● 2004 ○ Vignesh Engineering’s first exhibition participation - Imtex 2004, partnering along with Lokesh Machines Limited ● 2005 ○ Vignesh Engineering opens new office in Mogappair, Chennai ● 2006 ○ Hurco joins Vignesh Engineering’s Principal line up ○ Participated in Imtex 2006 at Bangalore with Lokesh Machines Limited ○ Participated at Tagma 2006 held in Chennai launching one of the world’s best Machine Tool brands, in India - HURCO, USA ○ Vignesh Engineering conducts first of its kind Machine Tool Maintenance Awareness Program in Chennai for its customers ○ Vignesh Engineering’s engineers sent to Hurco’s manufacturing facility in USA for training ● 2007 ○ Hurco’s first technical seminar held in Chennai. ○ Machine Tool Productive Maintenance Awareness Program conducted at Ambattur Industrial Estate for the members of Ambattur Manufacturers Association ● 2008 ○ Vignesh Engineering expands to Pondicherry and Trichy ○ Vignesh Engineering’s engineers sent to Hurco manufacturing facility at Taiwan and Singapore for training ● 2010 ○ Vignesh Engineering participates in ACMEE International Machine Tools exhibition held at Chennai Trade Center ● 2011 ○ Vignesh Engineering becomes Vignesh Machine Tools now with a team of 20 engineers and a well organised admin team ○ Vignesh Machine Tools inaugurates its new Service and Demo Center at Ambattur Industrial Estate ● 2012 ○ VMT celebrates its 100th installation of Hurco machine, along with Hurco ○ VMT installs 500th machine of Lokesh Machines ltd