Steel and Industrial Forgings Ltd (SIFL) is a public sector undertaking (PSU) fully owned by Government of Kerala

Government of Kerala

The Government of Kerala is a democratically elected body that governs the State of Kerala, India for a period of 5 years. The state government is headed by the Governor of Kerala as the nominal head of state, with a democratically elected Chief Minister as real head of the executive. The state...

 situated in Athani in Thrissur

Thrissur

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, Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 state of India

India

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The company was incorporated in 1983 and started commercial production in 1986. It is an ISO 9001:2008 certified company. SIFL, a subsidiary of Steel Industries Limited Kerala (SILK) started its commercial production in 1986. The company was referred to the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) in the mid-1990s.SIFL which had an accumulated loss of about Rs 15 crores in 1993-94. The main products of SIFL are: Complex and high precision aerospace forgings, Specialised forgings for defence, Heavy forgings for commercial vehicles, Indian Railways and other components for automobiles etc.