As the government's Make in India initiative continues to reshape the nation's manufacturing identity, a quiet but critical sector is emerging as one of its most important pillars, which is copper. The metal that powers motors, cables, transformers, EVs, and telecommunications infrastructure is increasingly being made in India. With India's copper demand growing 13% to reach 1,700 kilotonnes in FY24, driven by Atmanirbhar Bharat, the EV adoption push, and the Smart Cities Mission, the urgency for robust domestic production has never been greater.
Here's a look at the manufacturers building that capacity, facility by facility, product by product.
Bhagyanagar India Ltd – Tupran, Hyderabad
Founded in 1985 and listed on both NSE and BSE, Bhagyanagar India Limited has spent more than four decades building one of the country's most complete copper manufacturing operations. Operating across multiple facilities in and around Hyderabad, the company produces a full spectrum of copper products, from bus bars and enameled wires and strips to paper-insulated conductors and copper tubes, while also supplying solar absorber fins and automotive field coils. With copper in every vehicle across India and supply reaching switchgear and transformer industries globally, Bhagyanagar is domestic manufacturing with genuine industrial depth.
Gopalan Metals India Pvt. Ltd – Hoskote, Bengaluru
Gopalan Metals (India) Pvt. Ltd operates a state-of-the-art facility in Hoskote, Bengaluru, with an annual production capacity of approximately 6,000 metric tonnes. The plant manufactures copper rods, busbars, bare and tinned annealed wires, fine and superfine wires, bunched conductors, and PVC cables, serving automotive, telecom, electronics, and infrastructure sectors. Backed by SAP-integrated operations and advanced continuous casting and wire drawing technology, Gopalan Metals brings rare precision to domestic copper manufacturing, filling the critical gap between large commodity producers and India's high-specification industrial demand.
Madhav Copper Ltd – Bhavnagar, Gujarat
Incorporated in 2012 and beginning commercial production in 2013, Madhav Copper Limited has built a focused copper manufacturing operation in Gujarat with speed and intent. NSE-listed since 2017 and operating four manufacturing facilities, the company produces everything from busbars and enameled wires to oxygen-free copper rods and submersible winding wires, serving motors, transformers, switchgear, and generators. All products are manufactured from 100% LME-registered Grade A copper cathode and conform to IS, IEC, and international standards. A capacity expansion to 4,800 metric tonnes in 2018 signals a company scaling deliberately to meet India's industrial moment.
Tecop India Pvt. Ltd – Bhiwadi, Rajasthan
Incorporated in 2016 and operating out of the RIICO Industrial Area in Chopanki, Bhiwadi, Tecop India Private Limited is a focused copper wire and rod manufacturer serving India's industrial base. The company draws an 8mm continuous copper rod down to 0.2mm and below through rod breakdown, fine wire drawing, and annealing processes, producing copper rods, bunched and stranded conductors, tinned bare conductors, and tinned bunched copper. Led by Managing Director Pramod Chandra Navik, who brings over 20 years of expertise in continuous copper rod manufacturing and serves as consultant to several CCCR plants across India, Tecop represents the kind of specialised, process-driven domestic manufacturer that India's expanding cable and wiring infrastructure depends on.
Across geography, scale, and product focus, these four manufacturers represent something important about where Indian copper manufacturing is heading, away from import dependence and towards a domestic ecosystem built on precision, quality, and industrial self-reliance. The government's Make in India initiative provides the policy foundation, and these companies are providing the product.
