Bharat Seats (BSL) incorporated in 1986, is a joint venture of Suzuki Motor Corporation, Japan, Maruti Suzuki India and the Relans. The company is in the business of manufacturing complete seating systems and interior components for the automotive and surface transport.

Company has received technical guidance by Houwa Kogyo Co., a leading producer of hi-tech seating system for the automobile industry in Japan, and the main suppliers to Suzuki Motor Corporation.

The factory in Gurgaon houses Polyurethane moulding, seat frame manufacture, final seat assembly and head rest moulding and assembly.

Bharat Seats has set up a manufacturing unit for PU Headrests within its existing plant with a capacity to produce 4 lakh sets per annum. It started commercial production of headrest of international standards of quality commenced in May 1999.

BSL had phased out the use of CFC-11(Cholorofluorocarbons), used as a foam-blowing agent for polyol formation in the manufacturing of moulded Puf cushions.

The company also operates research & development centre which handles projects from the concept stage through modelling, designing prototyping to testing and validation for the final product. The centre has received approval from Ministry of Science and Technology Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Products

• Four wheeler seating system
• Two wheeler seating system
• Moulded carpets
• Two wheeler frames and sheet metal components
• Railway seats and berth
• Two wheeler main frame

Milestone

• 1986- Bharat Seats was established as seating system supplier to Maruti
• 1988- Company installed PU seat pad moulding line
• 1999- BSL installed Headrestraint PU pad moulding line installed
• 2000- Company started Suzuki production system techniques and TPM
• 2002- BSL installed PU Seat Pad Robotic line
• 2004- Bharat Seats accredited in-house its testing laboratory
• 2005- It installed an automated carpet moulding line
• 2006 - Company started production of two wheeler seating systems for Suzuki motorcycles
• 2007 - BSL bagged TPM award from JIPM, Japan and two wheeler sheet metal components and frames was introduced
• 2008- Bharat Seats started supplying seating systems to Indian Railways
• 2009- Company executed capacity expansion by setting third PU moulding line.

Award/Recognition

BSL has already received the ISO 9002 and QS 9000 revised version quality systems certification.