VasanthaTech Establishes Operations in Cincinnati Area

Vasantha Group (Hyderabad, India) has opened a facility in West Chester, Ohio to establish a foothold in North America for the sales of high cavitation, high precision molds for the medical and packaging markets. In addition building development and pilot molds here, typically in one or two cavity versions to prove out concepts, the new Ohio location will provide local mold trials and validation for high-cavitation production tools made in Austria or India.

Varun Reddy, director of sales & foreign operations for Vasantha Group, said in a release that his company, which has 650 employees, made the decision to expand into the U.S. in 2019. Since then, it has hired key employees, including Shawn Schnee as CEO, and made an initial investment of $7 million. Schnee comes to Advantech from iMflux, where he served as manager of advanced engineering. He is joined by 20 other newly hired employees.

Reddy said after the initial $7 million outlay to start the business, Vasantha plans to invest another $15 million to grow the business over the next five years., anticipating up to 60 employees by 2028.

The VasanthaTech West Chester facility will receive in July four new Fanuc Roboshot molding machines, with clamp forces of 180, 220, 300 and 450 metric tons, to help the company run mold trials. These will join two Arburg machines that the company has for running LSR and micro-molding applications. A new Class 8 clean room for medical molding applications is also coming this summer.

Andrew Cummings, sales manager for VasanthaTech, joined the company in January, coming over from Mold-Masters Ltd. and Zahoransky Automation & Molds. In a release, Cummings said Vasantha’s new U.S. facility provides customers the ability to run mold trials and provide complete customer support for its tools in the U.S.

VasanthaTech will also be exhibiting at NPE2024, with “several” molds in operation at its own booth and the booths of other companies at the show.

Automation Venture

Most recently, Vasantha Group has started a new automation venture, Savya Automation, with locations in both India and Austria. Savya will provide full scale injection molding automation, including end-of-arm-tooling (EOAT) and applications including part handling, transport, sorting, boxing, and more.

Vasantha’s VTW operation in Austria was formed by former KTW employees, a division of Husky. When Husky proposed shutting down the facility, the employees secured Vasantha Group as an investor, leading to the launch of a new facility in 2020 and a new company: VTW GmbH (Waidhofen/Thaya, Austria).

V+ Solutions is Vasantha’s engineering hub, based in Freiburg, Germany.  Led by Michael Schmidt, V+ provides complete engineering support. Schmidt joined Vasantha in 2022 after at Zahoransky Automation & Molds GmbH, where he most recently was Managing Director Sales.