Celebrating 100 years of Trust
About Us
Pioneering the hydraulics market in Eastern India, the 100-year old A.N. Hussunally & Co. has today emerged as among the market leaders in providing customers with holistic hydraulic solutions.
Established in 1917, the Company’s principal business philosophy is anchored on providing customers with world-class products and solutions at cost-effective propositions. Today, the Company comprehensively caters to the needs of a vast spectrum of industries in the pneumatics, oil and gas, power, steel, cement, manufacturing and chemicals industries.
With strong resident knowledge and knowhow of the dynamic hydraulics industry coupled with state-of-the-art infrastructure and resource base, A.N. Hussunally & Co. has actively engaged in nation-building by participating in such landmark Indian projects as the Tata Steel complex in Jamshedpur, Bhusan Power & Steel, Jindal Steel, ISSCO Steel Plant etc.
Our Legacy
A.N. Hussunally & Co. was established on 13 July 1917 by Mr. Hasanali Vadnagarwala, an enterprising trader from Sidhpur (a small town in Gujarat), who began his career running a flour mill in Ajmer. Witnessing firsthand the Imperial powers making inroads into trade and commerce in India and encouraged by his younger brother Abdullah who had already established himself in Madras, young Hasanali moved to Calcutta in search of greener pastures.
At that time, the East India Company, Whiteway Laidlow and Balmer Lawrie were the only suppliers to the British who had by then established their ambitions of ruling India. Sensing an opportunity to tap into a nascent yet fast-growing segment where he knew that the market would ultimately gravitate towards establishments with indigenous roots, Hussunally was quick to set-up business at 28, Strand Road in Calcutta.
In doing so, A.N. Hussunally & Co. emerged as probably the first Indian enterprise supplying hardware goods to the East India Company, comprising such products as engineering tools, pipes, pipe fittings, measuring tools, valves and pressure gauges, among others.