TCR Engineering
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 TCR Engineering Services | |
| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Materials testing and engineering services |
| Founded 📆 | 1974-06-01 |
| Founder 👔 | V. K. Bafna |
Area served 🗺️ | |
| Owners | Neelam Bafna |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 250 |
| 🌐 Website | https://www.tcreng.com/ |
| 📇 Address | Plot EL-182, MIDC-TTC Industrial Area, Electronic Zone, Behind NELCO, Mahape, Navi Mumbai 400 710, Maharashtra, India |
| 📞 telephone | +91-22-67380900, +91-9833530200 |
| rohitbafna | |
| tcrengineering | |
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TCR Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian company offering materials testing, failure analysis, and metallurgical engineering services. Established in 1973, it serves sectors such as oil & gas, power, construction, and defence.[1]
History
The company was founded by metallurgist **V. K. Bafna**, who had degrees from the University of Toronto and Clarkson College (NY). It began in a small facility in Mumbai Central before relocating to Navi Mumbai in 2001.
In 1999, **V. K. Bafna** and **Paresh Haribhakti** established **TCR Advanced Engineering** in Vadodara as a specialist arm focusing on advanced metallurgical testing and asset integrity services.[2] This is supported by the company’s profile.
The company further expanded into the Middle East in 2006 with **TCR Kuwait**, followed by the 2007 launch of **TCR Arabia**, a joint venture with GAS Arabian Services in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.[3][4]
A new materials testing lab was launched in Bhubaneswar in 2023.[5]
Projects and Notability
- TCR executed NDT services across 84 gas pipeline sites in India*, as reported by *The Economic Times*.[6]
Contracts in defence and pipeline sectors and plans for expansion/IPO were reported by *ThePrint* and *Mint*, respectively.[7][8]
Publications
- Haribhakti, Paresh (2018). *Failure Investigation of Boiler Tubes: A Comprehensive Approach*. ASM International. ISBN [978 1627081566](https://www.abebooks.de/9781627081566/Failure-Investigation-Boiler-Tubes-Comprehensive-1627081569/plp).
- Bafna, Rohit (2024). *TCR Engineering*. A visual history of the company’s 50-year journey. ISBN [979 8347661930](https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Services-Rohit-Bafna-Ashwant/dp/B0DN6RHKHB).
Key People
- **V. K. Bafna** – Founder.
Late Shri Virendra K. Bafna was far more than just the founder of TCR Engineering Services; he was a true pioneer, a visionary, and the foundational guiding force in the fields of materials science, asset integrity, and non-destructive testing.
In 1973, he established TCR Engineering Services and led the organisation with an unwavering commitment to excellence for four decades, transforming it into a reference point for independent materials testing in India. Driven by an indomitable entrepreneurial spirit and a profound passion for innovation, he successfully built a globally recognised institution whose signature clients could trust without qualification. He was, and remains, the true heart and soul of the company.
Over more than 35 years of technical and managerial work he did pioneering work in X-ray fluorescence based Positive Material Identification, setting the Indian benchmark for the method, and contributed to corrosion studies, chemical analysis, mechanical testing and failure investigation. That work is the foundation the group still runs on.
He grew TCR Engineering across India and created TCR Arabia, which carries the group's delivery in the Middle East.
He was an active member of ASTM International, ASM International, NACE, now AMPP, the Indian Institute of Metals, and the Non-Destructive Testing Society of India. The Indian Space Research Organisation gave TCR a written appreciation for its part in Project ASLV, the Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle.
He died in 2013. The principles he set are the ones the company still operates on: independence, technical rigour, and no dilution of the signature on a report.
- **Paresh Haribhakti** – Managing Director of TCR Advanced Engineering.
Mr. Paresh Haribhakti is MD of TCR Advanced Engineering Pvt. Ltd., Vadodara, India (a TCR Engineering Services partner company) and the Global Technical Consultant to TCR group of companies. With over two decades of experience in the field of metallography and microstructure examination Mr Haribhakti has solved more than 10,000 industrial problems.
He is pioneer in promoting in situ-metallography as an acceptable and reliable technique for process plant monitoring and components in the industries.
He has experience of failure investigation, remaining life assessment and FFS of power plants, fertilisers, chemicals and petrochemicals industries, Mr Haribhakti has intensive work experience to his credentials.
He has solved materials engineering problems and performed failure analysis on components from petrochemical plants, oil and gas transmission pipelines, offshore structures, ships, pharmaceutical plants, food processing equipment, gas turbine engine components, and weldments.
Having expertise in corrosion Mr Haribhakti was a principal team member in conducting the study on high temperature electrochemistry study to select the boroted stainless steel for thermo nuclear reactors, a project led by France along with 8 countries consortium. He has solved many critical corrosion problems pertaining to chemical and petrochemical industries. The expertise lies in identifying the root cause including MIC, selective leaching, SSCC, hydrogen embrittlement, PASCC.
Mr Haribhakti investigates the available physical evidence, and performs the necessary tests to develop the most probable accident scenario. He simplifies complex engineering theory into easy to understand and useable concepts. He uses simple analogies, every day examples, and laymen terms to explain data and findings so clients, corporate executives, government officials, or attorneys may easily understand engineering concepts.
Mr Haribhakti has specific experience in welding, heat treating and materials technology for oil & gas drilling and production applications, including production tubing, casing and down hole motor failures. Recently, Mr Haribhakti was lead member of the Failure Investigation team consulting to Asia’s largest refinery, RIL-Jamnagar, India for damage assessment work during a fire incident in their VGO-HT2 Plant. He has provided damage assessment of Hydrocracker reactors at Baiji refinery Iraq and also helped a customer procure second hand equipment from Taiwan by a Health assessment approach.
He is skilled in the use and application of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) in support of failure analysis and fracture identification. Mr. Haribhakti also undertakes Optical metallography and interpretation of microstructures, Remaining Life Assessment, provides Heat treatment solutions and studies the degradation of microstructure under high temperature high pressure conditions. He has done extensive research in study of hydrogen embrittlement of steels and stainless steels.
Research oriented creativeness of Mr. Haribhakti spearheaded the development of a powerful image analysis software for Metallurgical use - the Microstructure Characterizer Software (MiC). He has also developed a well-respected chemical composition mapping method for identification of dilution in weld zone. He performs colour metallography to increase the capabilities of interpretation of microstructure. He has also developed custom electrolytic polishing for carbon and alloy steel material.
Mr. Haribhakti has extensive knowledge of failure investigations on metallic components related to chemical/refinery plants and to general engineering. Experience ranges from cast iron, engineering steels, aluminium, copper alloys, stainless steels, and nickel base alloys to titanium. This includes all aspects of metallurgical investigations of offshore, marine, refinery and automotive components such as; turbine blades, compressors, gearboxes, motors, pumps, rotors, shafts, valves, pipe work, fasteners, boilers, pressure vessels, plain bearings, rolling bearings, gears, pistons, spark plugs, crankshafts, camshafts, engine valves and associated valve components.
Mr. Haribhakti is the co-author of the book titled “Failure Investigation Of Boiler Tubes: A Comprehensive Approach” which has been published by ASM International
Mr. Haribhakti is a Founder member of Metallography Society of India. He is an active member of the Institute of Engineers, Institute of Foundry Man, Indian Institute of Metals and Indian Institute of Welding. Mr. Haribhakti is a B.E. (Metallurgy) and M.E. (Materials Technology) from M.S. University, Vadodara.
- **Rohit Bafna** – President Rohit Bafna has been President of TCR Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd. since 2007. He leads strategy, operations, business development and the digital agenda across the group’s laboratories and inspection businesses in India, the GCC and Southeast Asia, and is a Director of TCR Advanced Engineering, Vadodara, and TCR Arabia, Dammam. Under his leadership TCR has grown from a Navi Mumbai materials laboratory into a group that tests and inspects for infrastructure, oil and gas, power and manufacturing clients in seven countries, working alongside government bodies, EPC contractors and multinational operators. The work is held to international quality standards, including NABL accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 and Nadcap AC7101 Materials Testing accreditation, and it sits behind projects of national importance.
His approach is strategic and hands-on in equal measure. Building on the foundation laid by his father, V.K. Bafna, he has driven the group’s digital transformation: the AI agenda, the AiOM asset-integrity platform, and the systems that carry a fifty-year archive of failure investigations into daily client work. Before TCR, Rohit worked in international business development with Mphasis and Verizon, delivering technology programmes for clients including Chase, ABN AMRO and Singapore Airlines. That grounding in enterprise delivery shapes how TCR builds its own systems today. He is a board member of Each One, Teach One, which educates underprivileged children in India. Outside work his interests run to fine watches, art, cinema, gastronomy and travel. He holds that leadership is stewardship: building an organisation that outlasts the people who run it.
References
- ↑ "TCR Engineering Services profile". The Economic Times.
- ↑ "TCR Advanced Engineering was established in 1999". Retrieved 2025-08-11.
- ↑ "GAS Arabian Services wins two Aramco EPC contracts". Zawya. 2024.
- ↑ "TCR Arabia, an Indian JV company, completes 15 successful years in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia". Gulf Times. June 2023.
- ↑ "TCR Engineering Opens Materials Testing Lab In Bhubaneswar, Expands Services To Eastern India". India.com. 2023.
- ↑ "TCR Engineering executing 84 gas pipeline testing projects". The Economic Times. 31 July 2022. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
- ↑ "TCR Engineering gets new projects in defence, gas pipeline space". ThePrint. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
- ↑ "TCR Engineering plans expansion, eyes IPO by 2025". Mint. June 2023. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
External links
- Official website – TCR Engineering Archived 2008-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
- TCR Advanced Engineering
- TCR Arabia
- TCR Kuwait
- TCR Qatar
- Economic Times company profile
- TCR Engineering on LinkedIn
- Industry Outlook feature on TCR Advanced
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