MEI has State-of-the-art R&D centre at Maraimalai Nagar facility. Our in house R&D centre is audited and certified by India’s Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR). MEI R&D employs over 35 skilled engineers in designing, developing and validating products for both domestic and international markets. The R&D team continuously works on strengthening our technology to keep abreast of the changes, upgrade & develop new products to meet increasing global demands. We continuously engage in collaborative work with Premier educational Institutes for synchronizing with technology for developing world-class products for our customers.

During 2007 when the mandate for Automatic slack adjusters was implemented in India, MEI pioneered the self-adjusting slack adjusters and offered the best-suited product to Indian OEMs. This home grown design developed by MEI enjoys 5 global patents apart from the quality accreditation from all OEMs as the most reliable product. MEI offers wide range of slack adjusters with various lever lengths, straight or offset arm, low or high torque type versions, and supplies over 800 SKUs globally.

In 2011 MEI developed hydraulically triggered, Air assisted Clutch boosters with in-house R&D efforts. This product holds the customer’s trust for its quality levels and higher reliability and helped in import substitution. MEI patented clutch booster comes in the complete range which covers 70 mm, 76 mm, 90 mm and 102 mm diameter versions to suit any vehicle application.

In 2014 our R&D engineers developed Air Disc Brake Calipers suitable for most of the European vehicle applications. We offer wide range of ADB based on wheel rim sizes and different rotor diameters and multiple variants based on chamber mounting angle and wear sensor type. Today MEI is a recognized brand in Europe for Air Disc Brakes for its quality & reliability and we are working towards the development of ADB for the Indian OEMs.

The R&D Centre is accompanied by a full-fledged testing laboratory. Our lab is equipped with test rigs, fatigue rigs and LINK dynamometer to carry out the complete product testing as per SAE, ECE R13 / R90, JIS and other global standards. Our testing engineers carry out the performance and endurance testing of Slack Adjusters, Clutch boosters & ADB in-house.