/ ABOUT MICROTEX · SINCE 1969
Fifty-seven years of making batteries that must not fail
Microtex Energy is a family-owned Bengaluru manufacturer whose batteries start locomotives, hold substations through blackouts and power machines under mines — in India and in export markets across the world since 1977. This page is the story of how a components pioneer became one of India’s most trusted industrial battery houses.
1969 founded — 1975 PT-bag patent — 1977 battery production & first exports — 1987 Udyog Patra — 2026 pluri-tubular patent
The founder — Mr. A. Govindan
“Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values, rather than personal gain.”
Microtex exists because Mr. Ambraith Govindan — a first-generation entrepreneur — looked at the batteries of 1969 and saw what was wrong inside them. The industry ran on inefficient wooden and rubber separators; he pioneered PVC battery separators in India. He invented the PT Bag — the pluri-tubular gauntlet bag that holds a tubular battery’s active material — and was awarded a patent for it in 1975. In recognition of his contributions to Indian industry, he received the prestigious Udyog Patra award from the President of India, Giani Zail Singh, in 1987.
Everything this company is stands on his effort: the belief that a battery maker should master every component, the insistence on clean processes long before it was fashionable, and the dream of a team that cares. In 1977 he took the company into full battery production — and into export markets the very same year.
FIG. 1 — MR. A. GOVINDAN · FOUNDER · UDYOG PATRA, 1987
His 1975 gauntlet patent has a successor: Indian Patent № 587320 (2026) — the pluri-tubular gauntlet, granted fifty-one years after the founder’s original. Two generations, one obsession: the component everyone else buys from a catalogue, perfected in-house. The technology story is on the tubular plate page.
Microtex today
FIG. 2 — RAVI GOVINDAN · CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR
Led by Ravi Govindan, Chairman & Managing Director, Microtex remains what its founder built: family-owned, vertically integrated — alloys, oxide, plates, gauntlets and separators made in-house, containers moulded by our group company Kruger Industries — and engineering-led, with battery design and manufacturing under Chief Technical Officer Dr. Michael McDonagh since 2011. The plant in Peenya Industrial Area serves utilities, nuclear facilities, railways, mines and fleets in India and export markets worldwide.
A tree for every battery
The founder cared about clean manufacturing before the word “environment” appeared in tenders — and the habit continues in kind. Since 2017, Microtex has planted a tree sapling with every traction battery sold in India: over 5,100 trees and counting. It is a small, stubborn arithmetic we are proud of — every forklift fleet powered, a little forest planted. More on our Environment page.
What we believe, in one paragraph
Batteries are trust made physical: the customer pays today for a promise that matters most years from now, on the worst day. So we behave accordingly — evidence over adjectives, type tests over slogans, honest answers over easy ones, and a warranty philosophy with one instruction behind it: we do not want to see a single battery come back.