Lumax Industries Limited (LIL) is engaged in the business of manufacture, trading and supply of auto components, mainly automotive lighting systems for four wheeler and two wheeler vehicles.
Lumax Industries established as a trading concern under the name 'Globe Auto Industries' in Delhi on 1949 got into manufacturing activity in 1957 by setting up a plant in Delhi. Now it works 4 manufacturing units at Delhi, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Pune.
Lumax Industries, incorporated on December 10, 1981 has renowned customers for its products -- Telco, Ashok Leyland, Ford, Hindustan Motors, Nissan, DCM Toyota, Bajaj Tempo, Mahindra & Mahindra, Maruti, Premier Automobilies, Hero Honda, Bajaj, etc. Lumax's products are exported to the Gulf, African, South-East Asian and European countries. A number of the company's products have been type-approved by the defence sector.
LIL had set up a new automobile lighting equipment unit at a cost of around Rs 400 million at Gurgaon, with latest technological advancements. In 1998-99, the company increased the installed capacity of its head lamps and tail lamps/rear combination lamps to 25,00,000 nos and 29,50,000 nos. During 2000-01 the installed capacity of Head Lamps & Filters have increased to 32,50,000 & 6,50,000 respectively.
The company decided to spinoff its Mirror and Filter division which produces rearview mirrors and oil-filters into a separate company i.e. Lumax Aircleaners Ltd. The scheme of demerger arrangement is pending approval of the High Court as on Sep 11, 2003. This scheme envisages allotment of 1 equity share of the resultant new company for 4 shares of LIL. This demerger leaves LIL as a pure Auto Lighting company.
During 2016-17, the Company set up first international state-of-the-art design centre in Taiwan in May, 2016; approved investment of about Rs 120 crores to its existing plant at Sanand, which was set-up in the year 2011 for supplies to Tata Nano and which was non-operational due to subdued volum