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Katare wrote:May god bless India with more Mukesh Ambanis and Ratan Tatas! They are the only hope for India to stand-up against dragons from east till our democracy matures!

Katare wrote:May god bless India with more Mukesh Ambanis and Ratan Tatas! They are the only hope for India to stand-up against dragons from east till our democracy matures!

Vipul wrote:India is now 5th largest global steel producer.

With the new plants of Jindal,POSCO,Arcelor-Mittal,SAIL,ESSAR and TATAS coming on stream by 2012,India should soon be in the Top 3.

Chennai, Aug. 9 (PTI): Mitsubishi Heavy Industries India has constructed a new plant at Ranipet in Tamil Nadu's Vellore district to double its production capacity in gear cutting tools.

The new plant had come up at a cost of Rs.50 crore, the company's managing director Hidetawa Horioko told reporters here today.

With the rapid growth in Automotive sector in India, there was a huge demand for gear cutting tools, he said.

The production of the automotive industry in the country, which stood at one million units in 2003, had gone up to two million units in 2006 and was expected to touch four million units by 2010, he said.

This had resulted in high demand for high quality gear cutting tools, he said.

Walter AG, the German precision tool major, has plans to set up a manufacturing facility in India.

Bearings manufacturer Timken India plans to expand its operations in the country by increasing its capacities at its plant in Jamshedpur, creating new capacity at a greenfield facility in the Chennai special economic zone (SEZ).

Chinese consumer durables major TCL plans to set up a colour TV and DVD player manufacturing unit in north India by early 2010 for making India its global sourcing hub and supply to players like Sony and Philips.

World's sixth largest steel maker-Baosteel of China has teamed up with Kolkata based Visa Steel to set up a manufacturing facility in India. The joint venture-Visa Bao will produce ferro-chrome, a key raw material for stainless steel

The US group will import Massey Ferguson-brand tractors, built in a joint venture with Tafe in Chennai, to compete with such rivals in the small tractor market as Deere and CNH. Mahindra & Mahindra, the Indian tractor maker, already exports some models to the US.

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation's subsidiary will triple production of a key component used in making polyester and PET bottles at its Haldia plant by 2009, Japanese Prime Minister Shinjo Abe said on Thursday.

Company sources earlier said MCC PTA India Corporation Pvt Limited planned to set up its second 8,00,000-tonne purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant in Haldia at a cost of Rs 1,665 crore. This would be completed by 2008.

The sources said the company wanted to make the unit the world's largest in a single line capable of producing the best quality PTA.

The $1.05 billion consumer electronics major Samsung India Electronics Private Limited is all set to commission its Sriperumbudur plant near Chennai.

The company is awaiting a suitable date from the Tamil Nadu government to inaugurate the plant built on a 50-acre plot in the SIPCOT Sriperumbudur Industrial Park.

The plant will initially manufacture colour televisions and monitors. It has a capacity to make 1.5 million TV sets and 1 million thin film transistor (TFT) monitors, Ravinder Zutshi, deputy managing director of the firm, told the media here Monday.

Samsung has invested around $24 million till date out of the total outlay of $100 million for this plant and the balance will be invested by 2010, Zutshi added.

Gerard wrote:'India should use low technology in manufacturing'

Triumph International, the world's largest manufacturer of women's innerwear is setting up its own manufacturing unit in India which is said to be one of the largest manufacturing units in the country, with an area of 5, 60,000 sq ft area at Maramalai Nagar, near Chennai.

Today the company has a presence in India through Intimate Fashions, a joint venture with MAST Industries, the makers of Victoria's Secret and the MAS Group. This factory is in Gudavanchery (on the outskirts of Chennai) and majority of Intimate Fashions' production is for Victoria's Secret and a small portion for Triumph International India.

Triumph International has its new factory set on 14 acres and covers over 5 lakh sq ft. In the first phase, it would have a seating capacity of over 1,300. In the second phase, the factory will accommodate over 2500 sewing operators, creating job opportunities for thousands of women in Chennai. Mr. Rosenberg revealed that the investment in this venture was close to double digit million dollars. Triumph, a German company, has 16 factories all over the world and this would be the 17 th.

Sanjay M wrote:

Gerard wrote:'India should use low technology in manufacturing'

India should use every kind of approach available.

Take a look at this:

3D Printing Taking Off

This technology has India's name written all over it. It's computer-based, it's aimed at meeting demand for consumer goods which is an under-served market in India, and it minimizes fixed capital outlay with its attendant risks in India's bandh-prone militant labour environment. It also reduces transportation loads to merely the transport of powdered raw materials, which again caters to the reality of India's poor transportation infrastructure. Local producers would only have to keep the powdered raw materials locally onhand, which could be dynamically/flexibly allocated to manufacturing a broad spectrum of goods according to locally fluctuating/varying consumer demands.

Timken Company, a major manufacturer of bearings, plans to start operations at its new facility coming up near Chennai by the end of this fiscal.

David White, Director-Sales and Marketing of Timken India, told presspersons here on Friday that in the first phase an investment of $27 million was going into the project, which was coming up at Mahindra World City. It planned to invest further for the next phase. It would manufacture bearings for multiple sectors and these would be for export and also the domestic market.

The U.S. headquartered company started its India operations in 1989. It had a plant in Jamshedpur that manufactured bearings for automotive, industrial and rail applications and catered to global supply.

The Timken technology centre, located in Bangalore, provided customers access to the company’s pool of engineering resources and technological advancements, he said. Timken had six manufacturing plants in China and also its Asia-Pacific headquarters. The company launched an expanded range of products and its new distribution office for Coimbatore on Friday.

MUMBAI, India, and PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rohm and Haas Company today celebrated the inauguration of its second, state-of-the-art acrylic emulsions facility in India to meet growing demand for its environmentally advanced products and technology in this important region.

The Chennai facility, located in the Sriperambudur industrial area of Tamil Nadu in South India, is opening with the capacity to make 30,000 to 40,000 metric tons a year of specialty materials used in the manufacture of paints and coatings, adhesives, textiles, paper and leather. The plant, which cost US $12 million to build, is a "zero discharge" facility that meets very stringent environmental standards set by the state of Tamil Nadu. The Chennai facility will also operate under the company's "21st Century" program which strives for reliable, cost-effective manufacturing facilities and a competent, motivated workforce continually focused on improvement.

The largest and fastest-growing supplier of environmentally advanced acrylic emulsions

The company also is doubling the capacity of its 35,000 metric ton facility in Taloja, which is located near Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra. The combined capacity of Taloja and Chennai (100, 000 to 110,000 metric tons per year) makes Rohm and Haas India's largest and fastest-growing producer of environmentally advanced emulsions and additives for paints and coatings and other waterbased polymer industries. The company also has the leading position for solventless and water-based adhesives used by India's packaging & converting industry. "Put quite simply, our goal is to be the best specialty materials supplier in India," says Harish Badami, President and Managing Director for Rohm and Haas India.

Takata Corp., Japan's largest maker of auto safety equipment, plans to build its first factory in India, where economic growth is boosting demand for cars.

The company will start producing seatbelts at a factory in Chennai in southern India by the end of 2009, Kimio Kobori, a Takata spokesman, said in an interview in Tokyo yesterday. The investment and production capacity have not yet been decided.

Takata joins Robert Bosch GmbH and other component makers in setting up factories in India as vehicle sales surge in the world's second-fastest growing major economy. Auto companies may spend as much as $40 billion in India in the next decade as the nation will become the world's fastest-growing major auto manufacturer, according to government estimates.

``Takata is an early entrant in the Indian seatbelt market, and setting up as a local supplier is a good move,'' said Takashi Moriwaki, an analyst at Nomura Securities Co. in Tokyo. ``Cars in emerging markets are not yet known for their safety, but people are realizing how important it is.''

BHUBANESWAR: The protests have been loud and sometimes violent, but giant South Korean steelmaker POSCO is confident opposition will fade when work begins on its massive Indian plant next month.

After a lengthy stand-off with aggrieved local villagers, preparatory work will start on the $12 billion project in the Orissa within weeks, a company spokesman told media.

Construction will begin early next year and the first phase of manufacturing in 2011, bringing thousands of jobs for local people, he said.

The project represents India's largest foreign direct investment, dwarfing the $2.9 billion Enron power plant in Maharashtra.

"The morale of the company is high. Once activities start, the rest of the villages opposing the project will also come around," company spokesman Shashanka Pattnaik told media over the weekend.

Feelings have also run high among thousands of residents facing eviction from the 4,004 acres (1,600 hectares) of coastal district earmarked for the plant.

In May, protesters briefly kidnapped three POSCO employees and held them in a barricaded village before releasing them.

"Our demand is that POSCO gives us in writing that it will not set up its plant here," Anti-POSCO campaign leader Abhoy Sahu told media at the time.

Tensions rose in April when 500 police were dispatched to the Jagatsinghpur district, shortly after security forces shot dead 14 protesters against a chemical plant in nearby West Bengal.

Amid the controversy POSCO, the world's fourth largest steelmaker, has struggled to acquire the land it needs and currently owns just 193 acres.

But it hopes to buy another 300 acres soon, apart from the 1,135 acres it has already been promised by the government.

"The first phase of the operations will begin on this 1,600 acres," the official said.

POSCO has hit several roadblocks in buying land and mining rights since it signed an agreement with Orissa state in June 2005.

The federal government last month told Orissa to reconsider POSCO's mining application after allowing some 250 other applicants to enter the race.

But the company expects to win the lease in November and start mining by 2009. Under the 30-year lease rights, POSCO will mine 600 million tonnes of iron ore.

"The Orissa government has recommended our case. On merit, we are the only players to qualify," Pattnaik said.

The company, however, still faces tough resistance from villagers, many of whom oppose the plant and a port POSCO will build nearby to import 30 million tonnes of raw material, including limestone, a year.

Residents of Jagatsinghpur, where authorities have blocked access by outsiders to several villages, say the plant and port threaten the livelihood of thousands of people.

POSCO admits it's been surprised by the scale of the opposition, although it claimed to have won over several families during a visit by Soung Sik-Cho, chairman of the firm's Indian unit, last month.

"Any project of this magnitude comes with its problems. We had anticipated this (the protests), but not to this extent," Pattnaik said.

The company says it will create 18,000 direct jobs in the next 10 years -- and was already giving education and training to several families.

"The younger generation is keen to take up work as it doesn't see a future in agriculture," Pattnaik said.

POSCO says it has launched training programmes for local people in welding, masonry and carpentry. Women were being trained to stitch clothes