Indo German Tool Room, Aurangabad

Is this the right place for you

Come to IGTR Aurangabad if your product is physical and you need tooling, precision machining, measurement or a prototype built properly, and you would value a desk and machines inside a working tool room. It is not a cohort accelerator: it publishes no intake dates, no application form and no investor demo day.

How to approach the incubation centre

• There is no apply button. The only incubation document is an undated two-page PDF, so start with a short email to the incubation inbox it lists.
• Say what you are building, what stage it is at, which machines or design work you need, and how long you expect to need the space.
• Ask the questions the PDF does not answer: how admission works, whether there is a fee, how long a stay lasts, whether equity is involved, and whether the seed fund it mentions is open now.
• Ask whether the centre still offers every facility the PDF lists, because the document carries no date.

The Ministry of MSME route

• IGTR Aurangabad is on the Ministry's Host Institute list, so you can name it as your host institute when you register for an MSME Idea Hackathon edition on the Ministry's incubation portal.
• Choose your category first: MSME with a Udyam registration number, Student with a valid student identity card, or Others.
• Check the portal for an open edition. When we looked, edition 6.0 had closed and ideas were under evaluation.
• The scheme's assistance goes to the host institute to develop your idea, so plan your application around what you need built.

If you only need the workshop or a skill

• Job work, tool design, tryouts and consultancy are sold to industry directly. Use the marketing contact on the homepage.
• Short courses in CAD, CAM, CNC and 3D printing suit a small hardware team upskilling one engineer. Check the 2026-27 calendar.
• Sponsored batches are for specific communities and income groups. Read each notice's conditions before registering.

What reviewers and staff will want to see

• A physical product or a clear tooling need, not a software idea.
• A drawing, a sample or a specification you can bring to a first conversation.
• A realistic account of what you will machine or design in-house and what you will ask the centre to do.

Indo German Tool Room, Aurangabad (IGTR Aurangabad) is a tool room and technical training centre in the MIDC Industrial Area at Chikalthana, Aurangabad, Maharashtra. Its own pages describe it as a project of the Government of India, the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Government of Maharashtra, and its incubation document calls it an MSME Technology Centre. Alongside tooling and training it runs an Incubation and Innovation Centre, called IIC-IGTR, for people who want to turn an idea into a physical product.

It helps to be clear about what this is. IGTR Aurangabad is a manufacturing and skills institution first. Its incubation side is described in a single two-page PDF, linked from the About menu, and nothing else on the site mentions startups. The PDF has no date, no application form, no intake calendar and no selection process, and it cites press coverage from 2017 and 2019. So treat the incubation centre as a facility you ask about, not a cohort you apply to.

The Incubation and Innovation Centre

The PDF says IIC-IGTR was created to foster innovation and promote technology-based entrepreneurship, and that it encourages its trainees, aspiring entrepreneurs and budding entrepreneurs to turn ideas into realities. Once someone is admitted, it says the following are offered to each incubatee on an individual basis: co-working space (a reception, a cabin, a workshop and a meeting room), access to CAD, CAM and CAE software and design facilities, access to conventional and CNC machines, 3D scanning and printing and automation services, connections to mentors, angel investors and financial services, consultation from the functional and technical team, and common infrastructure such as internet, printing, power backup and a cafeteria. For high-potential startups it also says it supports future financing efforts and opens opportunities such as a seed fund. The PDF does not say how people are admitted, how long they can stay, or what it costs.

The Ministry of MSME host institute route

IGTR Aurangabad is also listed as a Host Institute on the Ministry of MSME's own incubation-scheme register, at entry 316, under Maharashtra and Aurangabad. Under that scheme a host institute acts as a business incubator, and ideas from innovators are approved by the Ministry and developed at the host institute, with the scheme's financial assistance going to the institute rather than the founder. Ideas come in through the national MSME Idea Hackathon, which runs in numbered editions and is applied for on the Ministry's portal. At the time we checked, the window for edition 6.0 had closed and the ideas received were being evaluated. IGTR Aurangabad's own site does not mention the scheme, and the register gives no recognition date or period.

Who can apply

For the Idea Hackathon route, the Ministry's rules apply: any innovator of Indian origin with an email address and a mobile number, applying as an MSME with a Udyam registration number, as a student with a valid student identity card, or under Others. No incorporated company is required. For the centre's own incubation, no eligibility rule is published beyond the PDF's mention of trainees and aspiring entrepreneurs.

The centre also runs training for individuals, and some batches are sponsored by state and central bodies for specific groups. Its homepage carries notices for batches with AMRUT, SARTHI and VANARTI in Maharashtra, a MeitY skill scheme for SC, ST, OBC, EWS and women candidates, and a DONER-sponsored programme. These are vocational courses with community and income conditions, not funding for a business.

Facilities

The tool room is the reason a hardware founder would look here. Its production pages list 10 CNC machining centres, 5 CNC wire-cut machines, 3 CNC spark erosion machines and 3 CNC lathes, plus milling, jig boring and grinding, a coordinate measuring machine, and a quality lab that checks and calibrates components. It can try out press tools and injection moulds on its own presses and machines and run batch production of sheet metal and plastic parts. The design department has CAD, CAM and CAE workstations and does tool design, reverse engineering and product development. The machine list is undated and the software list on the design page names old versions, so confirm what is current before you plan around it.

Services and training

Beyond incubation, the centre designs and makes press tools, moulds, die-casting dies, jigs, fixtures and gauges, does precision machining, and offers consultancy on product and process development, productivity and quality, lean manufacturing and support for entrepreneurship development. Its training centre runs long, medium and short term courses in tool and die making, CNC, CAD, CAM, CAE, automation, 3D printing and scanning, welding and other areas, with a 2026-27 course calendar published. Admission for direct-entry courses is first come first served, and some long-term courses use an entrance test.

Quality marks, locations and contact

The Introduction page says the centre holds ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018 and ISO 50001:2018. Training also runs at extension centres in Waluj in Aurangabad, two in Pune, Nagpur and Kolhapur. The main address is P-31, MIDC Industrial Area, Chikalthana, Aurangabad, 431006, open Monday to Saturday. The incubation document gives an incubation inbox for enquiries. There is no careers page and no events page. The site shows a short browser-check page before it loads, so open it in a normal browser.