The company has diversified from aerospace manufacturing into consumer products such as toys, cookware, and electrical components.
Aequs aerospace industrial park in Belagavi
When Aequs Ltd—earlier QuEST Global Manufacturing—established its aerospace industrial park on 250 acres in North Karnataka in 2008, co-founder Aravind Melligeri faced a surprising challenge: convincing clients that Belgaum actually existed.
“Foreigners and customers often confused Belgaum with Belgium,” Melligeri recalled with a laugh. “We had to show them the map and point out exactly where Belagavi was. Then in 2014, when the city was renamed from Belgaum to Belagavi, I had to explain it all over again,” he said in an interview with Moneycontrol.
This confusion mirrored the scepticism Melligeri faced when he and his partners decided to build a world-class aerospace hub far from Karnataka’s capital, Bengaluru.