Cooper Corporation Pvt.ltd.satara

The legacy of Cooper Corporation dates back to 1922 when Sir D B Cooper established Cooper Engineering in Satara. Thanks to his Midas touch and astute vision, the historic town of Satara witnessed a new wave of industrialization without losing its rich heritage that finds its roots in ancient times.
A multi-faceted personality, Sir Cooper was also one of India's revolutionary social activists, who vociferously upheld the rights of untouchables in a pre-independent caste-ridden India, hand in hand with towering personalities like Karmaveer Bhau Rao Patil, Dr. Ambedkar & Prabhodankar Thakeray.
He was the president of Satara Municipality and was subsequently appointed by the British as the PM of Bombay Presidency and was also crowned a Knight of Garter.
Cooper Engineering has the unique distinction of making India's first Diesel Engine and Iron Mould Ploughs. Some of its other achievements bear testimony to the company’s pioneering strides:

A Mechanite Licence for India, Burma & Sri Lanka
Collaboration with Alfred Herbert for Machine Tools during world war II
Production of artillery shells and two-inch mortar bombs for the allied war effort
Manufacture of Diesel road rollers used extensively for road building all over India
An Indigenous Petrol Engine for the 1930 Morris 8 cars
India’s first drilling machine in the early 1930s
India’s first high-precision shaping machine in 1939-40
Sugarcane crushers powered by Cooper diesel engines used by large sugar farms throughout India in the early1940s
Manufacture of power looms in the early 1940s
Arguably the world’s first horizontal engines designed by British consultant Tom Kavern Known as the GOLD STANDARD in the market until 1947
India’s first slotting machines with license from SKODA of Czechoslovakia in 1957-58
Re-designed and upgraded horizontal engines with technical know-how from Ricardo in vogue until the late 1960s