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Velson V9XL crawler drill with the mast tilted off vertical for an angled hole

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Engineered for the ground beneath.

Three generations of drilling equipment, built for water, piling, and mining.

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Capabilities

Engineered in-house

Design, R&D, and prototyping under the same roof as manufacturing.

Manufactured at scale

162,000 m² plant at Sankari with 20,000 sq ft of covered fabrication shed.

Built to spec

Repeatable tolerance on every rig, from V2i borewell to V10 blast hole.

Delivered on schedule

Commit dates we hold to - operationally, not aspirationally.

Custom configs

Variants for terrain, climate, and operating profile with practical engineering.

Product lines

Browse rigs by application.

Three lines, each tuned to the ground beneath it. Pick where you're working and find the rig.

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Water Well

07 products

Water Well

Drilling rigs for borewell and water-well operations.

Mining

07 products

Mining

Exploration, blast hole, and specialised mining drills.

Piling

02 products

Piling

Piling and ground-support equipment.

What we stand for

Engineering as a long position, not a sprint.

Vision

A drilling-equipment company whose customers, employees, and communities share the ground we engineer for.

Mission

Build drill rigs and mining equipment with sound engineering - proven in design, validated in the field.

Fusion

Trade standards fused with in-house engineering - every weld and tolerance held to the spec the field measures by.

  • Over 1000 rigs delivered

  • Over 700 operators served

  • 16 years on the ground

Drilled into time

A line through the ground we've covered.

The line below traces the platform's history - each year a depth marker on the bore. Scroll to drill through.

  1. Year 2011

    Velson is founded in Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu - built around a single conviction that the right drilling rig is the one engineered to the ground it will work in. Production begins on Model-I in June 2011.

  2. Velson Model-II truck-mounted automated water-well rig with tilted mast

    Year 2012

    India's first fully-automated rod-handling drill with a tilted mast - Model-II - ships in April 2012.

  3. Velson Model-III Cisada V3 compact self-propelled drilling rig

    Year 2013

    Model-III launches as India's first compact, self-propelled drilling rig. Designed to navigate access-constrained sites.

  4. Velson V9 Cisada V+ crawler-mounted water-well rig

    Year 2014

    Model-III is re-engineered for water-well duty, producing the most powerful compact rig in its class - the V9 platform.

  5. Velson V10 Ground Hog excavator-mounted blast-hole drill

    Year 2015

    Product line diversifies. V10 GH 600 enters service as Velson's first mining blast-hole drill. The model-naming convention is formalised.

  6. Velson V4 Red Fox light-commercial-vehicle-mounted water-well rig

    Year 2016

    V4 Red Fox is released - the most powerful Light-Commercial-Vehicle-mounted water-well rig in the line.

  7. Velson Cisada V3i crawler-mounted water-well rig

    Year 2017

    Recognising that no pre-built model fits every customer's ground, Velson stands up a custom-build practice (V3 special-purpose machines) with improved stability.

  8. Velson V4i truck-mounted automated compact water-well rig

    Year 2018

    V4i, a compacted version of V2i, delivers Velson's first fully-automated compact rig while continuing dedicated support to international customers.

  9. Gated entrance to the Velson plant, fabrication sheds behind

    Year 2019

    The new Sankari plant is commissioned across 162,000 m² with associated training and support centres.

  10. Velson RC Drill 400 truck-mounted reverse-circulation rig

    Year 2020

    The Reverse-Circulation (RC) drill rig is launched for mineral-exploration programmes.

  11. Velson VEDC diamond-core exploration drill on a self-contained crawler chassis

    Year 2021

    The VEDC diamond-core exploration drill is launched.

  12. Velson SD100 compact sampling drill on a coastal survey site

    Year 2022

    The SD100 (Velson Samp) compact field sampler enters service for shallow survey and sampling work on coastal and soft-ground sites.

  13. Velson HDE-600 Hole-Match crawler drill at the Sankari plant

    Year 2023

    The HDE-600 Hole-Match drill joins the mining line - a crawler rig sized to drill horizontal and vertical holes for wire rope cutting in granite mines.

  14. Velson V9 XL crawler drill, side view with the mast at an incline, hydraulic hose runs and winch visible along the feed beam

    Year 2024

    The V9 XL extends the deep-drilling platform, pairing DTH and ODEX drill capability for exploration-grade reach on a single crawler.

  15. Velson DRC 350 reverse-circulation crawler drill at the plant

    Year 2025

    The DRC 350 reverse-circulation crawler is introduced - continuous sample recovery to 350 m for metal/mineral mineral exploration.

  16. Velson D120 self-contained production blast-hole crawler

    Year 2026

    The D120 self-contained production blast-hole crawler arrives - 12 m single-pass drilling - the flagship of a line now spanning water, piling, and mining.

  17. Forward

    Velson - Proven Legacy. Always exploring and pioneering new ground ahead