In late nineteen eighties, MRK ENGINEERS was formed by an electrical engineer Mr. M. Ramakrishnan with its base in Mumbai and with the association of Mr. M. Kasinathan. It started marketing various control equipments on all India basis.

In early nineteen nineties, the operation was shifted to Chennai . While it continued to market control equipments, it added various process control instruments and components including measuring instruments in its product range.

Later, during late nineteen nineties, the family incorporated a private limited company MRK ENGINEERS PRIVATE LIMITED with its registered office in Bangalore This family company was headed by Mr. Vaidyanathan. It has imported various assembly equipments for electronics assembly including soldering and de soldering instruments, components etc., and marketed on all India basis.

In 2006, Mr. Kasinathan started international division of this company with its base in Chennai and started representing multinationals from Europe, Japan in India . With ambitious growth plan, second family company MRK SPECIALITY MATERIALS PRIVATE LIMITED was incorporated during March 2010 and shifted entire international business division to this company Ever since, it handles multinationals from Europe, Japan and represent them in India for their products such as Capacitor films, Lamp components, various ferrous and non ferrous metals in the form of strips, sheets, tubes, wires, rods, finished parts, tubes including capillary tubes, bourdon tubes, oval tubes, thin wall tubes, profiled tubes, parts and assemblies including rivets, stamped parts, deep drawn parts, extruded parts, metal plastic composite assemblies, memory elements and assemblies, stamping, bending parts and assemblies, thermo bi metal strips and components, contact bi metal strips and components, wire profiles, metals for medical engineering including tubes, wires The company cater to various applications including Electrical, Electronic, Medical engineering, Automotive & Industrial gauges, Automotive components, Switchgear products, Capacitors, Lamps, Relays, Springs, Connectors, Thermostats, Watch components and so on.