Cooper Corporation Pvt. Ltd.

About Us

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