In the year 1926 Makson Group started as a small manually operated in-house confectionery products manufacturing unit for local market. Later the founder & chairman of the company Mr. Dhanjibhai who is a mechanical engineer visited an exhibition in 1972 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi where he came across a Doule Twist-wrapping machine and he decided to build confectionery machineries. Since that day he started to build the machine just by viewing the image of the machine in the catalogue and finally succeeded after constant hard work of eight years.

The chairman of the company Mr. Dhanjibhai was awarded "Self made Industrialist" award in the year 1981 by the Vice President of India and Ex-Officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha Mr. Hidayat Ullah. Following this award many other awards such as "The National Award for Import Substitution" in the year 1983, "Export Award" by the Government of India. He was also awarded the "LENCO Excellence Award" as "The Best Industrialist & Philanthropist". After this initial experience Makson started to build machineries and emerged as an export unit for confectionery machinery to the countries such as Algeria, Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria, Tunisia, U.A.E., Zambia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Indonesia, Mauritius, Nepal, Srilanka, etc. Makson has even supplied a turnkey plant to Procter & Gamble -Nigeria & Kenya and many other reputed companies. Today makson delivers confectionery machines to India & all over the world.

Later in the year 1983 Makson expanded as a contract confectionery manufacturer to renowned companies such as Nestle, Cadbury's, Unilever, Hindustan Lever Limited, Ranbaxy, Cipla, Himalaya, Boots Piramal, Knoll Pharma, Coca Cola, Blue Cross Labs, etc. Makson has a dedicated manufacturing facility for P&G, Johnson & Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline. Johnson & Johnson awarded Makson "Contract Manufacturer of the Year Award" for 2 consecutive years 1995 & 1996.

In the year 2004, Makson started manufacturing 100 various types of gumbases, equivalent to International Standards for Chewing and Bubble Gum.

Today Makson is the leading Confectionery Machine Manufacturer & also the largest Contract Confectionery Manufacturer in India having its branches at Bhopal & Hyderabad.