A fitness pole customised for Indians — This Chennai startup says #MakeLocal home-workout equipment
The Hindu
India gets one of its first locally-made fitness poles, thanks to three engineering graduates who have turned Ambattur’s auto ecosystem into a base for manufacturing home-workout equipment
The air at Mannurpet’s network of streets is punctuated by sounds of machining: of steel hitting steel, metal drilling into slabs of concrete, and the sparks of welding.
At the periphery of Ambattur Industrial Estate, these streets are lined with small-scale shops involved in the production of automobile components for companies such as TVS, BharatBenz, Nissan and Hyundai.

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