HMT LIMITED Incorporated as “Hindustan Machine Tools” at Bengaluru on 7th February 1953, and popularly known as “HMT”, HMT Limited, is a Central Public Sector Enterprise of the Government of India, under the Department of Heavy Industry, Ministry of Heavy Industries. While HMT Watches have adorned the wrists of the mighty and the humble, HMT’s Machines have been deployed across the manufacturing sector including strategic sectors and are known to be long lasting “Value for Money” products. Having established technology leadership by providing reliable solutions to the major strategic sectors of the country through supply of appropriate goods and services, and thereby ‘Driving Growth through Technology’, HMT has been the flagship of India’s industrial progress since independence. Currently, HMT Limited is a Holding Company with two operative subsidiaries viz. HMT Machine Tools Limited and HMT (International) Limited, while the businesses of Food Processing Machinery and Watches are directly managed by the Holding Company. HMT Machine Tools, in addition to general purpose and multipurpose CNC Machine Tools, has been providing a host of special purpose and specific technology machines to meet the requirements of the strategic sectors like Defence, Railways, Nuclear, Space, Aerospace, Naval, Auto etc. several of which are import substitute machines and machines which are under technology denial by developed countries.The Company headquartered at Bengaluru has manufacturing Units at Bengaluru, Pinjore, Kalamassery, Hyderabad (2) and Ajmer. HMT (International) incorporated in 1974 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the HMT Limited, to cater to the export markets of HMT’s products, has also implemented several turnkey engineering projects in various countries and has created a niche in setup of Vocational Training Centres, Entrepreneurial Training Centres, Skill Development Centres, etc. on turnkey basis.