It is a journey from germination of an idea to its fructification. It is a story of vision and growth. Started as a modest enterprise in 1986, it is now a prime mover. A leader in the latest technologies in India and an international forerunner.

Visualising a tremendous potential in bringing state-of-the-art technology for meeting the requirements of India's priority sector, the Prime Group started with its initial venture. Prime Chemfert Industries Pvt. Ltd. (later renamed PCI Ltd.).

Over the years, the Prime Group has surged through continuous expansion, diversification and transformation of its initial venture into a varied field of Hi-tech Instrumentation for testing, measuring and condition monitoring, Capital Goods, Precision Engineering, Geo-technology, Information Technology, Power Generation, Lease-Finance, Imports and Exports.

Today, the Group's area of activities includes imports, manufacturing assembling and marketing of a wide range of high-tech equipment, instruments, and systems relating to power and other core sectors of the economy, capital goods relating to PCB assembly and testing, power conditioning systems, optical inspection and measurement systems, CNC Machine tools, geo-technology equipments, precision engineering and software development.

The Group's intensely motivated, highly qualified and trained manpower of more than over 1200 professionals in its completely automated offices and marketing network spread all over the country. The group having its offices in 36 locations spread a cross 17 major cities in the country and also 100% subsidairies PCI Asia Pacific (p) Ltd. with its headquartered in Hong Kong, PCI Middle East FZE with its headquartered in Hamriyah Free Zone, Sharjah, UAE and PCI Europe GmbH, with its headquartered in Berlin, Germany offers the best in service and quality.

"Think Global Act Local", as a guiding principle, has governed the Group's business philosophy, approach and strategies. The Group has entered into technical and marketing collaborations with the world's leading corporations to imbibe the latest innovations and technologies. The Group's highly developed infrastructure serves as an efficient springboard in dissemination of the latest envelopments in areas of high technology throughout India and in the neighboring countries, giving the Group a cutting edge.

PCB Assembly and Testing Division

The electronic industry occupies a prominent place in the Indian economy. It owes its tremendous progress to the growing realization that stringent quality standards can be achieved only by use of the latest production technologies and machines. PCB Assembly and Testing Division of PCI has carved a niche in this area.

Its impressive range of hi-tech products includes fully Automatic and Robotic pick and place system; manual, semi-auto or auto-feed, pass-thru screen printers, dual wave soldering systems, re flow ovens, automatic dispensers, automatic cleaners for screens/stencils and PC boards in-circuit functional testers, component insertion machines, assembly tools, inspection systems, quality control instruments, handheld soldering machines using self regulative skin effect technology, soldering/de-soldering systems for repair/rework/small batch production, as well as state-of-the-art rework stations for the fine pitch components BGAs, flip chips etc.

In its endeavor, PCI has tied up with leading European and American companies like Polar Instruments Ltd., Vision Engineering Ltd., SEF GmbH, Loectec GmbH, AST Electronics, Digital Test GmbH, ETS Inc., Renthang Co., Paggen GmbH, Finetech GmbH, Bobifil SL (Coil Winding Machines), Kappa Opto Electronics GmbH, Schunk Ultra Schall Technik GmbH (Ultra Sonic Wire Welding Systems) among others.