CG Power vs Crompton: Two Companies, One Shared History

Search “Crompton motor” and you will find two different companies. One makes the industrial motors on factory floors; the other makes the pumps and fans in Indian homes. They share a name, a history and even a hometown — but since 2016 they have been entirely separate businesses. As a dealer authorised by both, we answer this question over the counter every week. Here is the full story — and it is a better story than most people expect.

1. The Short Answer

CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd and Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd are two separately listed, separately owned, separately run companies. CG Power makes industrial electrical equipment — LT and HT motors, drives, transformers, switchgear. Crompton (the consumer company) makes fans, residential and agricultural pumps, lighting and appliances. Neither owns the other, and buying from one earns you no warranty from the other.

2. The Colonel Who Started It All

The name on both companies belongs to one of the most remarkable engineers of the Victorian age. Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton (1845–1940) went to the Crimean War as an eleven-year-old naval cadet and came home with a campaign medal before finishing school. As a young army officer posted to India in the 1870s, he ran the Government’s experimental steam road trains — his first taste of moving heavy loads with engineered power, on Indian roads, a century and a half before this article.

In 1878 he founded Crompton & Co in England — one of the world’s first electrical engineering firms, when electric light itself was still a public marvel. His arc lamps and dynamos lit railway stations, mills and public buildings from Britain to India. He went on to become a driving figure behind the creation of the International Electrotechnical Commission in 1906 — which means the “IEC” on every motor nameplate you have ever read (IS/IEC 60034) traces back to the same man whose name is on your pump. For good measure, during the First World War he served on the committee that developed the first tanks. When you buy anything bearing the Crompton name, you are buying into one of electrical engineering’s founding houses.

3. The Indian Century

India was in this story from the beginning — Crompton’s own career started here, and India became one of the firm’s earliest markets. In 1927 Crompton & Co merged with F. & A. Parkinson to form Crompton Parkinson, whose Indian operations put down deep roots — and in 1937 Crompton Parkinson Works was established in Bombay, barely a kilometre of history away from our own shop in Fort.

The other half of the name is older still: Greaves Cotton, the Bombay trading and engineering house, dates to 1859. In 1966, under the Thapar Group, the businesses came together as Crompton Greaves Ltd — and for the next fifty years “CG” was simply how industrial India said electrical. Fans in every home, pumps on every farm, motors in every mill, transformers on every grid — one company, one name, everywhere. When Bombay Engineering Syndicate opened its doors in 1957, Crompton Parkinson products were already what customers walked in asking for; we have now sold this family of products under four different corporate eras.

4. The 2016 Split

In 2016 Crompton Greaves demerged its consumer products division — fans, pumps, lighting, appliances — into a new listed company, Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd, which trades simply as “Crompton”. The remaining industrial business was renamed CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd in 2017. After a turbulent stretch, CG Power found stable ground in 2020 when the Murugappa Group — one of India’s oldest business houses — took control through Tube Investments of India, and has been reinvesting in the motors business since; the 2026 NEXORA launch is the latest result. Crompton, meanwhile, built itself into India’s No.1 brand in fans and residential pumps. Two healthy companies — two entirely separate ones.

5. Who Makes What Today

6. Why the Confusion Refuses to Die

Three reasons. First, the names: both companies legitimately carry “Crompton Greaves” in their legal identity. Second, the nameplates: an industrial motor from 2010 says Crompton Greaves on its rating plate, but its manufacturer today is CG Power — so the “Crompton motor” in your plant is actually a CG product. Third, the products themselves overlap in the middle: a Crompton pump contains an electric motor, so “Crompton motor” can honestly mean two different things. When in doubt: if it drives machinery, think CG Power; if it moves water at home or on a farm, think Crompton.

7. Warranty and Service: Call the Right Company

This is where the distinction costs real time if you get it wrong. The two companies run separate service networks. For industrial motors and drives, CG Power’s CG Care helpline is 1800 267 0505 (9 AM–6 PM, Mon–Sat). For pumps, fans and appliances, Crompton’s helpline is 9228880505. Calling the wrong one gets you politely redirected after a wait. Both are listed with addresses on our support page.

8. What It Means When You Buy

Dealer authorisations are separate too — a shop authorised for Crompton pumps is not automatically authorised for CG motors, and vice versa. Spares follow the same split: CG motor spares come through CG Power’s channel, Crompton pump spares through Crompton’s. For a purchase this matters twice: once for genuine-product assurance, and again years later when you need a bearing, a capacitor or a mechanical seal that actually fits.

9. Where We Stand

Bombay Engineering Syndicate has sold this family of products since 1957 — which means we predate the split by six decades and hold authorised dealerships for both successors: CG Power for industrial motors and drives, and Crompton for pumps. Whichever side of the family tree your requirement sits on, you get the genuine article, the correct spares channel and the right service contact the first time.

Not sure which company makes what you need? Ask us — untangling this is literally our day job.