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Economy goes India
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01-2007/1872
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Source: Stadtspiegel, Germany
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20.01.2007 Economy goes India
24 delegation partners will fly to India this Monday. "Stadt-Spiegel" will accompany the entrepreneurs to Bangalore
by Mike Offermanns
M'Gladbach - On coming Monday,, 15th Januara, they will start: the delegation consisting of 24 representatives of RWTH Aachen, the University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein as well as the Giesnekirchen-based companies Diamant Metallplastic, Reorg, HuDe from Erkelenz and further highly specialised machine companies accompanied by "Stadt-Spiegel" will start their trip to the south Indian industrial center of Bangalore.
While the Moenchengladbach Economical Development Company organised lately a trip to Shanghai and is concentrating to this market in Asia,the Diamant-developed technology "made in Mönchengladbach" tested by the universities is brought also to India for intereted partners. The latest projects are introduced to the university in Bangalore and demonstrated at the same time at the international machine tool exhibition IMTEX. For this, the new rooms at Jain-College are inaugurated for the Indo German Institute of Technologies (IGIT) co-opened and co-owned by Diamant. "Indians are culturally closer to us than Chinese. The market gains more and more consideration offering all possibilities to us for productive cooperations", says Diamant-CEO Achim Schulz.
The Giesenkirchen-based company, counting in its product nitches "Metal-Plastic" worldwide to the market leaders, has already found Indian cooperation partners.
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At One Glance:
Diamant Metallplastic GmbH has founded together with its Joint Venture Partner in Bangalore and the Visveswaraiah Technological University (VTU) the "Indo German Institute of Technologies (IGIT)" and thus given a platform for the appliocation referring transfer of technology by cooperation of economy and science in Germany and India. More info under http://igit-vtu.com
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Indian and return
There is a strong demand for technology "made in Mönchengladbach" by the university of the Indian city of Bangalore.
"Indians do not necessarily produce cheaper, but faster and simpler", says Schulz. Beaurocratical hurdles or the typical 40-hours-week are foreign word for Indian workers. Plus the enormous speed by which the Indians want to do away with technology deficits.
The Germans are well like at the campus in Bangalore. The Diamant-CEO will give in autum more information about the latest technologies.
And these are of the best kind: one technology "made in Mönchengladbach" is "VaryAir" being demonstrated during IMTEX. Diamant has developed a new way of production of extremely precise air bearings together with the machine tool laboratory WZL at RWTH Aachen. Another project is "3D-Robotyping". Till now these are parts being used e.g. as prototypes for engines, gear boxes or pumps for the automobile industries consisting e.g. of a "printed" form made from plaster. Now, such parts shall be produced using Diamant-Products cheaper and better. These materials are hard and wear resistant and at the same time cheaper by 90 percent than conventionally produced parts. The academic assistance is given also by RWTH.
Another project being "Construvation", a method to free old steel beams from worn parts and renovate them in a way that they will not corrode any more. The university of applied sciences Niederrhein assists Diamant with the development of new products in the Nano-Coatiungs-Technology. "Next to China, many German companies, above all from the automobil industries, have settled in India. We take the chance and check the market", explains Bodo Streich, deputy CEO of HuDe Datenmesstechnik GmbH, his reasons for participating in the trip to India.
The Erkelenz-based company has realized the first projects five years ago in China during a trip and want now to penetrate the Indian market, too. The company having 30 employees wants to remain competitive and needs to think globally and discover new markets, says Streich.
At One Glance
While the Mönchengladbach Economical Development Company (WFMG) concentrates in Asia on China and cannot concentrate on another market on ground of missing ressources, their colleagues from the city of Neuss do concentrate on India. That is why the Neuss-based County Governor Dieter Patt and the Economical Development Company in Neuss are joining the delegation to India opening officially the new Indo-German Institute at Jain College together with their Indian representatives.
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