Every truck thundering down a highway, every tractor working a field and every bus carrying passengers across India rides on a part most people never see: the rear axle shaft, a precision-forged steel shaft that carries the vehicle’s weight and turns its wheels. In Punjab, one company has built its name on making that part better than almost anyone else: GNA Axles Limited.
The GNA story began in 1946, when founder Sardar Amar Singh Ji ignited what the company calls its spirit to challenge. GNA Axles Limited itself was incorporated on 6 September 1993, and from its base at GNA House in Jalandhar, Punjab, it has grown into one of India’s leading makers of rear axle shafts for the on-highway and off-highway world.
What GNA Axles makes
GNA Axles manufactures rear axle shafts, transmission shafts and spindles, along with other shafts and automobile components for four-wheeler applications. Its products serve light, medium and heavy commercial vehicles and buses on the road, and agricultural tractors and machinery, forestry, construction, defence and mining equipment off it.
The company’s two manufacturing units in Punjab, at Mehtiana in Hoshiarpur district and Gulabgarh Jattan in Kapurthala district, forge and machine these components to the exacting standards of global vehicle makers. The company says its operations are certified to IATF 16949 for automotive quality, ISO 14001 for environmental management and ISO 45001 for occupational health and safety.
From Punjab to the world
GNA Axles supplies original equipment manufacturers such as Mahindra & Mahindra, John Deere and TAFE, and tier-1 suppliers to global vehicle makers such as Meritor and Dana. Its shafts travel far beyond Punjab: the company exports rear axle shafts, other shafts and spindles to countries including the USA, Sweden, Turkey, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Japan, the UK, France, China and Australia.
That global reach rests on deep manufacturing strength. Forging heavy steel and machining it to precision, shaft after shaft, is the company’s core craft, and it is why vehicle makers on several continents trust a Punjab company with parts on which lives and loads depend.
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A business of serious scale
The numbers reflect that trust. In the financial year ended 31 March 2025, the company reported total revenue of Rs 1,542.35 crore, with profit after tax of Rs 107.09 crore. For a company rooted in a 1946 Punjab enterprise and incorporated in its present form in 1993, that scale, built shaft by shaft, is a shining example of Indian manufacturing at its finest: experienced, precise and built to last.
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