Historical Background

MBE commenced business as McNally Bird Engg. Co. Ltd. in a serene township at Kumardhubi (near Dhanbad) as the Indian arm of McNally Pittsburg, USA one of the then leading companies in the world engaged in the construction of coal washeries and Mineral Beneficiation plants with the erstwhile Bird & Company, a British Managing Agency acting as secretary and managers. The company started with expatriate Americans taking care of major Engineering, Design and Manufacturing functions.

MBE was a pioneer in the country in its initial areas of business, viz Coal preparation, Mineral Benficiation and Bulk Material Handling and there are several firsts attributed to MBE. Some of the major milestones in the history of MBE are given below:

Some benchmarks…

1961- Company was established as a joint venture between McNally Pittsburg, USA and Bird & Co.

1968 – Designed and built the longest Cross Country Conveying System in India for 800 TPH Coal Handling Plant of Thermal Power station at Talcher, Orissa.

1970 - First indigenously designed Mineral Beneficiation Plant in India for beneficiation of fluorspar was built for Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd. at Kadipani, Gujarat.

1970 - First Carbon Paste Plant built indigenously, for Indian Aluminium.

1972 – Name changed to McNally Bharat Engineering Company Limited.

1979 – Built the first indigenously designed 700 TPH Coal Washery for Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. at Sudamdih, Jharkhand.

1980 - Company taken over by the Williamson Magor Group.

1981 - Designed and built the first indigenous 5500 tph High Speed Rapid Loading System with Silo at Jayant Coal Handling Plant, U.P.

1989 - G. P. Birla Group acquires 24% stake in the Company.

1995 to 1998 – Projects and Products Divisions awarded ISO 9001 certification by RWTUV, Germany.

1998 – Entered into Open cast mining sector and secured an order for 20,000 tph shiftable conveying system followed by orders for conveyors and Bucket wheel excavator, Spreader etc from Neyveli Lignite Corporation, Tamil Nadu.

1999 - Joint Venture formed with Eriez Magnetics, USA, world’s leading manufacturers of magnetic, vibratory and metal detection equipment for manufacture of their products in India.

2000 – Received order for first Dense phase pneumatic conveying system for ash handling in India from Neyveli Lignite Corporation, Tamil Nadu.

2001 - Obtained our first major order for Water Management in a joint venture project for combined water supply to 674 habitations in Tiruchirapally District, Tamil Nadu.

2002 - The first Indian Company to manufacture and commission a 700L capacity Bucket Wheel Excavator.

2002 – Designed, manufactured and successfully commissioned the world’s largest Apron Conveyors for aluminium industry at Angul for Nalco.

2002 – Entered into a licensing agreement with Kone Cranes VLC Corporation for technology transfer for design, engineering, manufacture, erection & commissioning of a range of Port Handling Equipment.

2002 – Acquired 100% control over Eroterv-Waagner-Biro, Hungary, now known as EWB Kornyezetvedelmi Kft., world leader in Pneumatic conveying Technology.

2004 – Designed, built and commissioned India’s largest capacity Level luffing cranes at Kandla Port.

2005 - Built and commissioned in global record time of 14 months a complete lead-zinc beneficiation plant for M/s Hindustan Zinc– Agucha mines.

2005 – Built and commissioned again in global record time of 19 months a Green Anode plant for Bharat Aluminium Company at Korba.

2005 – Built and commissioned India’s largest capacity Goliath Crane (300 MT) for Cochin Shipyard Ltd.

2005 – First indigenously designed, built and commissioned Container Handling Crane in India at Haldia Dock Complex.