Many Czech companies have been well known in India for a long period. In the first half of the 20th century, when Czechoslovakia still existed, traditional Czech brands built a good reputation for the Czech industry there. It is interesting that some people in India believe that a shoe manufacturer and seller Baťa is an Indian company. It is not surprising that a few years ago, one of the new underground stations in New Delhi was named after this giant of Czechoslovakian industrial history. Also other companies, such as Škoda, the Czech manufacturer of cars, have a good reputation in India. Radar systems from another Czech company, Eldis, protect almost 90 % of Indian airspace today.
PBS is one of the traditional Czech companies. At the same time, its history is much longer than the existence of the Czech Republic or Czechoslovakia. It was founded in 1814. The main production programme progressively became the manufacturing of steam engines, boilers and turbines. PBS developed its own steam engine 10 years after its foundation and became one of the biggest industrial companies in Austria-Hungary at the beginning of the 20th century. At first, the company mainly produced steam turbines on the basis of a Parsons licence, but later PBS came up with its own solutions, which allowed an increase in power output and efficiency. PBS started to operate in the field of aircraft devices in the second half of the 20th century. The company commenced development of air generators and auxiliary power units (APUs) in the 1970s. Development of jet engines started in 2001, and 3 years later PBS dispatched the first serial PBS TJ100 engine to INTA, the Spanish manufacturer of training targets. Since then, PBS has extended the range of jet engines to 5 types, with a number of individual customised modifications in the power category from 230 to 1,500 N of thrust.
Like other Czech brands, PBS is highly respected in the Indian market where there is a considerable level of interest from Indian companies interested in business cooperation. The company has established good relationships not only with the state administration and defence forces of India, but also with significant Indian companies, above all with those operating in the field of aircraft devices. PBS is also increasingly found in the precision casting industry on the Indian market.