Pune company comes up with automatic carwash system

“There are over 7.7 million cars on Indian roads with 100,000 being added every month giving us enough scope for growth,” he said.

‘FourWin’ is a touchless system and an automatic carwash machine that does not use any brush and is designed for washing a wide range of small and medium range cars.

The carwash is controlled by a PLC (Programmable Logic Control) and uses high-pressure water,shampoo and wax to carry out a carwash in just three minutes.

The carwash could work on 20 vehicles in an hour. Service charges would vary from Rs 99 to Rs 249 per carwash.

The first carwash system has been installed at the Mumbai Pune Expressway at Khopoli. The carwash systems will be manufactured at the company’s Chakan plant near Pune.

“In the first year of operations,we are targeting 100 carwash systems,” Desai said.

“There are plans to bring in systems for bigger vehicles and a couple of products in a similar range,” he further added. The company is looking at outright sale and lease systems in addition to revenue sharing models.

Target customers would include car dealerships,large housing societies,petrol stations and highway food malls.

Founded in 2006,Genix Automation offers automation solutions including conveyers,process equipment,fixtures,automatic storage and retrieval systems (ASRS). Tata Motors,Tata-Fiat JV,Nissan Renault and Ford Motor Company are some of the company’s customers.

At present,50% of the company’s revenue comes from generic business,25% from ASRS. carwash systems are expected to contribute to 14% to the company’s business. Genix has projected total revenues of Rs 38 crore for 2010-11.

At present,the company is working with Tata Motors in Sanand and Pune on its new Crossover vehicle. It had also worked on the Tata Nano projectand Ford Figo project at Chennai earlier.