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Rajkot is centrally located in Saurashtra and during the years after independence, Rajkot has travelled with unlimited developments, and greatest opportunities ever in and around with every color of progress. Rajkot is an important industrial city of Gujarat. It is one of the biggest centers for the engineering industries.

Rajkot has found place among the leading industrial centers of India. Over the past fifty years it has grown to be the main center of production of diesel engines and its spares, machine tools and automobile spares, plastics, pharmaceuticals, golden/silver ornament and its machinery, CNC machines, food products and other products which are manufactured and exported from this region. Of late, Rajkot has been manufacturing and exporting all type of bearings. There has been remarkable increase day by day in exports as well as imports from and to this region. Rajkot is fully geared to march ahead with the best quality manufactured here to market them at competitive prices also in overseas market - thus able to carve a niche for itself in the international market.

Rajkot is also famous for its jewellery market, silk embroidery and watch parts. The city hosts several small scale manufacturing industries. Rajkot is famous for its gold purity. It has one of the largest gold markets called 'Soni-Bazar'. Rajkot is also famous for its textile printing units. These units make cotton sulvar-suits and cotton print sarees, and also make pure silk patoda.

Some of the industrial products for which Rajkot is known include: esthetic

» Bearings
» Diesel Engines
» Kitchen Appliances
» Watch Parts: Watch Cases & Bracelets
» Auto Parts
» Forging industry
» Casting industry
» Machine tools
» Out Sourcing
» Stock Market

Rajkot is well known throughout the world for its casting and forging industries. Over the last few years, it has started to play an increasingly important role in the complex supply chains of many global engineering companies that make products such as Electric Motors, Automobiles, Machine tools, Bearings, etc.

There are about 500 foundry units in Rajkot. The cluster came-up mainly to cater to the casting requirements of the local diesel engine industry. The geographical spread of the cluster includes Aji Vasahat, Gondal Road and Bhavanagar Road, Sapar and GIDC Lodhika areas. Majority of the foundry units in Rajkot produce grey iron castings for the domestic market. A very small percentage (about 2%) of the foundry units exports castings such as electric motor castings, automobile castings, etc.

Rajkot is also growing up in Software Industries and ITeS. There are many SOHO (Small Office/ Home Office) companies working in web development and many new multinational software companies and call centers are setting up their operation and development center in Rajkot.

In the near future, the government of Gujarat will allocate large land areas for the development of Special Economic Zone which will be parted in three different areas and will include industries such as Software, Auto-Mobiles, etc. As per recent market reviews, Rajkot is becoming Asia's biggest Auto-Mobile Zone.

As Rajkot is an important industrial city of Gujarat and it has grown remarkably in past few years, there has been development of different associations according to the type, nature and area of industries. Some of them are:

» Rajkot Chamber of Commerce & Industry (RCCI)
» GI.D.C. (Lodhika) Industrial Association
» Rajkot Engineering Association (REA)
» Aji G.I.D.C. Industries Association
» Shapar Veraval Industrial Association (SVIA)
» Samrat Association
» Machine Tools Manufacturer’s Association (MTMA)
» Saurashtra Plastic Manufacturers’ Association
» Rajkot Pumps & Motors Manufacturers Association (RPMMA)
» Diesel Engine Manufacturers Association (DEMA)
» The Institute of Indian Foundry men (IIF)