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Gabriel India has two state-of-the-art R&D Centres, located at Pune and Hosur, equipped with ultra-modern facilities to cater to the requirements of its customers.

For 4-wheelers at Chakan, near Pune


This R&D Centre provides valuable inputs to all plants of the Company in several areas including noise measurement, value engineering, improving product build quality by analysis of root causes of customer claims as well as cost reduction through localisation efforts.

Testing & Validation Facilities

MTS Servo Hydraulic Test System - 4 nos
Endurance Testing Machines for Shock Absorbers and Components
Oil Testing
Environmental Chamber
Sample Fabrication Machine Tools and Equipment
Salt Spray Test


For 2-wheelers at Hosur


For two wheelers, Gabriel India has a dedicated R&D team based at its Hosur facility. To provide complete suspension solutions for better ride comfort, the R&D team works closely with its customers to ensure 100% participation right from inception to production.

Testing & Validation Facilities

BISS Servo Hydraulic Test System - 1no.
Coil Spring Endurance
Cam Drum, Bump Test for Shock Absorbers, Front Forks & Components
Endurance Test Machine For Shock Absorbers & Components
Salt Spray Test
Oil & Rubber Testing
Microstructure-checking Facility
Sample Fabrication Machine Tools & Equipment


Technical Capabilities

Developing all types of Shock Absorbers, McPherson Struts & Front Forks
Product Design as per customer requirement
Product Testing & Validation
Ride tuning support to customers


Design Capabilities

6 CAD Stations
Solid modeling software
FEA (ANSYS)
IDEAS (Planned)


Access to External Test Facilities

Structural fatigue tests at ARAI, Pune
Rubber tests at IRMRA, Mumbai
Rubber durability tests at suppliers’ factory
Material test labs at Pune, Gurgaon & Bangalore
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Welding Research Institute, Trichy
Central Electro Chemical Research Institute, Karaikudi
Central Machine Tools Institute, Bangalore

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