@ Keeran, thanks for more pics.. I guess u can post little higher resolution pics if u have. :) Good coverage there @ Oragadam.

ennore port is close to chennai city limits. irr itself reaches it. we are yet to see the northern alignment of orr after gnt but ennore port would be within orr. orr clearly avoids red hills lake. google map of this spk - sp road (sh 57) shows that it hits tiruvallur. all these areas are far away from chennai limits. we could think of it as a peripheral ring road.

I guess it must the super ring road project as we saw earlier. Both SRR and SH57 have the same alignment => Singaperumal koil - Sriperumbudur - Tiruvallur except that in SRR Tiruporur is included?

Here's an excerpt from 2008 TOI article...
Article (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Multi-crore-infrastructure-plan-/articleshow/3438868.cms)
With hectic industrial activity in suburban Chennai, the plan provides for construction of a super ring road around the city covering the industrial hubs of Tiruporur, Tiruvallur, Sriperumbudur and Singaperumal Koil, a senior official said.

Mabbe they'll extend it to Tiruporur from SPK later?
Even ORR doesn't touch OMR or ECR. But they had plans to extend it right?

wow...Chennai semma pickup..

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...ow/5605341.cms

CHENNAI: Starting Mumbai-bound trains from Egmore, funds for a new line to Sriperumbudur and approval for 25 projects figure prominently in the Southern Railway's wishlist for the budget, which will be presented in Parliament on Wednesday.

The list also includes regularization of some special trains and more money for ongoing projects. Some of the sanctioned projects that require funds are — Dindigul-Pollachi broad gauge conversion, a new broad gauge line from Manamadurai to Virudhunagar and a new line from Madurai to Ernakulam via Kottayam.

Southern Railway is expecting the ministry to allot funds for the Rs 1,000-crore line to Sriperumbudur, part of the survey for 25 new lines carried out across the state. It is also looking forward to more allocation for the Velachery-St Thomas Mount MRTS project.

"We received Rs 1,223 crore last year. A large part of it has already been spent on ongoing projects, and the rest will run out in March," a senior railway official said.

Southern Railway introduced six trains, extended three others and increased the frequency of a train from tri-weekly to six days. Works have started on infrastructure improvement projects announced in the last budget, including model railway stations.

A new line from Nagore to Velankanni and gauge conversions between Vellore-Tiruvannamalai-Villupuram, Podanur-Coimbatore, Quilon-Punalur and Villupuram-Cuddalore-Sirkazhi-Mayiladuthurai will be completed by March.

^^^^
Its high time !! This western Suburb Sriperumbudur needs to be connected with a rail line..........lot of comapanies have sprung up in this belt.....I wish this is done in a war foot basis !!

If they can do at least in normal footing, it will be great!

^^If SR takes up this project, it will get screwed up. It would be better if Metro is extended to Sriperumbudur.

^^ Metro won't help with cargo transportation though..

I think a freight rail line is the number one priority, followed by a new metro line as and when the new airport comes up in Sriperumbudur..

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/jk-tyre-to-invest-rs-1600-cr-in-tn/386705/

The Tamil Nadu government has cleared JK Tyre’s proposal for setting up a new production facility, which would attract around Rs 1,600 crore investment, in the state. The facility was expected to generate around Rs 2,000 crore revenue in 2013-14, according to company officials.

According to sources in the government, the state Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister M Karunanidhi cleared the proposal in a meeting on Monday. Company officials also confirmed the development. The facility is to come up at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai, where 100 acres will be allocated to JK Tyre.

Speaking to Business Standard, AS Mehta, marketing – director, JK Tyre, said construction work would start immediately and production by the second half of 2011. “Phase I investment will be around Rs 800 crore,” he said.

The plant will have an initial capacity of 2.5 million car tyre and 200,000 radial tyre for trucks and buses.

The company will invest another Rs 750-800 crore in phase II to increase the capacity of car tyres to 5 million and for trucks and buses to 700,000. “The plant will predominately cater to the domestic market and this would bring revenues of around Rs 2,000 crore by 2013-14,” he said.

“Chennai will be an important centre for our manufacturing and research and development,” said Mehta, adding the target customers would be automobile majors.

The company caters to north India through its manufacturing facility at Gwalior.

In the south, it has a facility at Karnataka, where it manufactures around 800,000 truck radial tyre.

“We are in the process of increasing the capacity to 1 million with an investment of around Rs 150 crore,” added Mehta.

^^ Metro won't help with cargo transportation though..

I think a freight rail line is the number one priority, followed by a new metro line as and when the new airport comes up in Sriperumbudur..

Yeap, you are right. Has Mamta madam approved / talked about any such scheme in her budget y'day? I heard that the rly budget is all WB oriented with most of the new trains to and from WB and development schemes for WB.:bash:

^^ Metro won't help with cargo transportation though..

I think a freight rail line is the number one priority, followed by a new metro line as and when the new airport comes up in Sriperumbudur..

No new airport in Sriperumbudur. The project has been shelved.

News (http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/27/stories/2010022754430400.htm)

http://beta.thehindu.com/business/article125094.ece

The Tamil Nadu government will set up an industrial park for Japanese small and medium enterprises (SME) near here in a bid to attract more investments from the east Asian country to the state.

“We plan to set up an industrial estate, specifically for units from Japan at Oragadam. The industrial estate will be on a 100-acre land targeting the Japanase SME units,” state Industries Department Principal Secretary Rajeev Mr. Ranjan said Tuesday.

Mr. Ranjan clarified that the industrial park will not be a special economic zone (SEZ). “It will be an open industrial park but for Japanese companies,” he told IANS on the sidelines of a seminar organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Japan External Trade Organisation (JETO), in the state capital.

The Tamil Nadu government had earlier announced plans to start country-specific industrial parks to attract investments from countries like Japan, South Korea, Finland and France.

Earlier addressing the conference, Mr. Ranjan cited the growing Japanese investments in the state. “In Tamil Nadu there are now about 170 Japanese companies, up from 77 in 2008,” he said.

He also said the state government was planning to set up a working group including members of the Japanese Ministry of Economy and Trade and Industry (METI) to study the feasibility and other issues involved in building the Chennai-Bangalore corridor of excellence.

Hi- I happen to travel thro Singaperumal koil- Oragadam and Vandalur- Oragadam road yesterday. Some of the latest pics are for you

Mos of the road expansion work in the walajabad- Oragadam road is done except work in smaller pockets. I think in 4 to 6 months down the line this entire 4 lane road will be ready if the same pace is continued.

http://picasaweb.google.co.in/hariraam/OragadamPicsMarch2010#5445980939954881538

http://picasaweb.google.co.in/hariraam/OragadamPicsMarch2010#5445980950658196834

The Oragadam - Singaperumal koil road work will take another 2 yrs to complete. The road is complete only till Dailmler site, some 2 kms from oragadam junction. The major portion of the road is not even touched.

http://picasaweb.google.co.in/hariraam/OragadamPicsMarch2010#5445980604929989330

The Daimler site has been completely landscaped.

http://picasaweb.google.co.in/hariraam/OragadamPicsMarch2010#5445980612221456898

http://picasaweb.google.co.in/hariraam/OragadamPicsMarch2010#5445980591634999954

This area has undergone a sea change in the last one year. Apollo & Nissan factory s almost nearing completion

Betting big on India, global PC maker Dell today said it has taken the first lead in putting India on the map of branded computer exporting nations.

After calling on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Michael Dell, CEO of the $53-billion company said, "Our India business is growing 100 per cent. We are growing faster than the market, which is growing less than 100 per cent. We see enormous opportunities of growth in India.":cheers:

India presents a huge opportunity for PC makers as the computer penetration in the country is low.

The CEO the Texas-based company also said the demand for computers and servers is picking up with recession being overcome and with the enhancement of Dell's service capabilities following its acquisition of Perot Systems, which it acquired last year for $3.9 billion.

"Demand for (software) services is high... We do not have to look for customers. We are on path to create more verticals.... We can go after infrastructure management. We look at that service which is scalable," Dell said.

Dell India Managing Director and General Manager Sameer Garde said his company has taken the first lead in exporting branded computers by shipping PCs manufactured at its plant in Sriperumbudur (Tamil Nadu) to Dubai. The Sriperumbudur plant produces about 8 lakh computers a year.

Though efforts were made in the past by some to export PCs, not much headway was made. Dell's is the first attempt to ship branded PCs out of India.

China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Korea are leading computer exporters.

Dell is the market leader in India in notebooks. Overall, along with desktops, it has a 13.6 per cent market share and is number two, behind HP, in terms of number of units sold

Claiming that the company has 13 per cent market share in India, Garde said over the last two years Dell's presence has grown rapidly to become the number two player.

Garde also claimed that Dell has become the Number 1 player in the Indian notebook market, with a market share of 26.3 per cent now, up from 22.2 per cent in Q3 2009.

"India contributes two per cent of Dell's global revenues and has an annual run rate revenue of $1 billion, which means every quarter the company has a little over $250 million revenue," Garde said.

Dell's India operations, with 23,000 employees, house one-fourth of the company's total global staff strength-- comprising its hardware and services business as well as the employees of US-based Perot Systems.

Dell Computers makes laptops, desktops and servers. It is expanding operations in the country in a bid to grab more customers in the large and small enterprises segment.

Dell's total revenue in the quarter ended January 29 was $14.9 billion, 11 per cent increase from a year ago peiod. Revenue improved in all of Dell's business segments as the company consolidated results from the former Perot Systems for the first time.

Dell sees India as a vital part of it global strategy, identifying it as among the key emerging markets along with the other BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries. The major verticals contributing to this growth were the SMB and Consumer businesses.

Source: http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/dell-sees-india-as-export-hub/89267/on

Our development model in Electronics is not starting from scratch.. That is manufacture of Components generally used in Electronic products like leds.resisters,capacitors,power supply components(all those tiny stuff you see on a Printed circuit board).

And take a PC. We don't make Chassis,Power Supply, Memory modules,Hard Disk,CD/DVD units,Motherboards,Speakers, and many of those addon cards.

Taiwan.China excel in this basic manufacture of components. There is no use in using Electronics engineers to superwise assembly. We need to design circuits, make printed circuit boards and then to assembly

Our development model in Electronics is not starting from scratch.. That is manufacture of Components generally used in Electronic products like leds.resisters,capacitors,power supply components(all those tiny stuff you see on a Printed circuit board).

And take a PC. We don't make Chassis,Power Supply, Memory modules,Hard Disk,CD/DVD units,Motherboards,Speakers, and many of those addon cards.

Taiwan.China excel in this basic manufacture of components. There is no use in using Electronics engineers to superwise assembly. We need to design circuits, make printed circuit boards and then to assembly

Our BE /B.Tech courses do not prepare design engineers, whereas in SIngapore, even a poly technic diploma course is available for PCB designing.
We manufacture Engineers without even knowing where they are required and how they will be used.

Many Indian / India based companies in the Engg sector incl Auto sector and electronic sector are complaining that the fresh indian engineers need min 2 to 3 years even to understand the basics of a Mfg operation.

The curriculam is so outdated and all are eyeing Software jobs. (Kushi ones).
I was amazed by Nokia and Fiat in Europe arranging training classes for the diploma and degree engineers. The practicals are in actual factories and the students are able to see and feel the real situations from close quarters- crisis, targets, deadlines etc.

As per one of their studies, After 10th Std, a person has to be counselled and guided to the relevant field. So Vocational Traing is a very big operation there. Doing Engg degree course is so damn expensive there. Guys have to work and earn money to finance their degree course later.

Even school kids are regularly brought in for factory visits - just for fun and away for a day from their regular classes. But they learn so much during the trip. The PR manager in Nokia was even playing the popular music and arranged Pizzaz for the kids. They were asked to write an essay on the visit. Those students who write well or whose essay impress more are selected for the next level.

Imagine grooming the future clients like this.

Our development model in Electronics is not starting from scratch.. That is manufacture of Components generally used in Electronic products like leds.resisters,capacitors,power supply components(all those tiny stuff you see on a Printed circuit board).

And take a PC. We don't make Chassis,Power Supply, Memory modules,Hard Disk,CD/DVD units,Motherboards,Speakers, and many of those addon cards.

Taiwan.China excel in this basic manufacture of components. There is no use in using Electronics engineers to superwise assembly. We need to design circuits, make printed circuit boards and then to assembly


I wonder whether we have Indian company producing the small computer accessories like Pen drive, Memory card reader, web camera etc., Even these small parts are coming from ASEAN countries for huge Indian market. Indian Toys market also slowly conquered by China now. In TN cities right from big malls to road side shops I see mainly china made toys. Don't know when these can become completely Indian made products first.

^^Same is the case even in software - Indian s/w engineers are more of software coolies...no notable program or O/s created by Indians...

Same is the case even in software - Indian s/w engineers are more of software coolies...no notable program or O/s created by Indians

Too strong a judgment my friend. Indians are contributing to software in a major way at the large MNCs like IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, etc.

I think the problem is really with leadership in India. There is no-one body/person taking it upon themselves to create Indian infrastructure and support companies. This is a rudderless activity. Take the Mumbai Metro new train being made in China. The Chinese themselves admit this is the first time they are dealing with Stainless Steel, high humidity/temperatures for train coaches. Why could this activity not been done in India. There are thousands of young engineers who slogged through College. Giving them a project like this would have made sense. All it takes is for leadership to partner with companies like Tata or L&T and fund the activity. Instead they chose the easy way out, with trips to Hong Kong, Singapore, etc and they come back proudly announcing their brain dead choice.

Every college in the nation should encourage their student body to make practical useful things from scratch. IIT-M has a center for innovation and lots of students spend time there. Young people have bright imagination and they can come up with very unique solutions to vexing problems. Given a mission they can devise the best solution in no time. Delhi Engineering has a team that created a formula - I race car and competed quite successfully.

I would take the list of things imported into India and give each item to the University kids to come up with their version. This is how things are evolved and created. Entrepreneurship 101. Give them handsome prizes or better still fund the fledgling activity into a company that produces them. We need to involve our young graduating engineers in meaningful and fulfilling roles.

Instead at the drop of the hat we are into international tenders with lowest bid and some other nation profits. Just look at the arms procurement process for India. Almost 70-90% of equipment is imported today. These are huge sums of money several 10 of billions of dollars. But the funding for local indigenous activity does not add up to even 10 b dollars. Such myopic planning by our geriatric political crowd. Even those that are funded are facing paltry funds. e.g. the Kaveri Engine has been languishing for decades because of improper materials like high temperature single crystal blades. This is an ideal project for the graduating material engineering/chemical engineering/mechanical engineering students. Talent is there, young blood is there and all it takes is leadership and project funds - like a DARPA fund.

Michael Dell urging for more manufacturing in India...

“It will be a lost opportunity if India did not participate in manufacturing. So we would like to see it happening,” Mr Dell said in a free-wheeling discussion with the Minister of State for IT and Communications, Mr Sachin Pilot, and the Nasscom President, Mr Som Mittal, during the Nasscom CEO Conclave here. Pointing out the enormous opportunities in the area of manufacturing, Mr Dell today said that China had created a low-cost zone for capital, labour and manufacturing. The company, he said, spends billions of dollars in China to buy ingredients and components.

His observations comes at a time when the IT and Electronics Taskforce in its report submitted to the Government in December 2009 had identified inadequate infrastructure, tax issues, limited preferential market access for local companies, non-availability of finance at competitive rates and the inflexible labour laws as some of challenges faced by domestic manufacturers in India.

Too strong a judgment my friend. Indians are contributing to software in a major way at the large MNCs like IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, etc.

I think the problem is really with leadership in India. There is no-one body/person taking it upon themselves to create Indian infrastructure and support companies. This is a rudderless activity. Take the Mumbai Metro new train being made in China. ..

you are right...so can we get back these brains back to India, fund them / their projects so that they can create something 'Indian'??

you are right...so can we get back these brains back to India, fund them / their projects so that they can create something 'Indian'??

Sridhar, we have to get away from this huge expectation of someone else will rescue us.. there are many Indians returning back and something good can happen. However, there are enough bright young Indians with even more brighter imagination. They need to take the next step and become entrepreneurs. A little risk taking perhaps or some time devoted to creating products in their spare time. It takes diligence, imagination and forward thinking. A group of such people (yes, cannot do things in lone wolf fashion nowadays) can band together and create some product. Only by creating their own products can there be a vibrant Indian industry. There are so many opportunities in software to cater to local and global needs. If you need ideas just mimic what is being done elsewhere like the US but adapt it to local needs. Instead of seeing news that such and such MNC is opening its branch office in Oragadam, I would like to see news that the ex-alumni of IIT or Guindy or SRM or some other local college are building a new office in this area for their runaway hit product.

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one such activity

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/hardware/Indian-innovation-to-give-Amazons-Kindle-run-for-its-money/articleshow/5507239.cms

^^Same is the case even in software - Indian s/w engineers are more of software coolies...no notable program or O/s created by Indians...

That is a bit harsh.

I would suggest reading "Rising Elephant" by Ashutosh Sheshabalaya. After reading the book, any one can realize that it is truly a myth that is believed by many. This book provides tons of examples, some of them related to product development.

Remember, due to contractual obligations, many projects' details wouldn't be published by India based companies.

In addition, we can not copy the model of other countries (create, license, reap). We are playing to our strengths, that is scaling up the industry (in man power terms) like no other country in the world. To turn the tsunami of youngsters graduating year after year in to a "demography dividend", we need to provide employment to millions of youngsters year after year after year.

To take the industry revenues to 175 billion USD by 2020(Source : “Perspective 2020” by NASSCOM – E&Y), I think services would be most appropriate.

That is a bit harsh.

I would suggest reading "Rising Elephant" by Ashutosh Sheshabalaya. After reading the book, any one can realize that it is truly a myth that is believed by many. This book provides tons of examples, some of them related to product development.

Remember, due to contractual obligations, many projects' details wouldn't be published by India based companies.

In addition, we can not copy the model of other countries (create, license, reap). We are playing to our strengths, that is scaling up the industry (in man power terms) like no other country in the world. To turn the tsunami of youngsters graduating year after year in to a "demography dividend", we need to provide employment to millions of youngsters year after year after year.

To take the industry revenues to 175 billion USD by 2020(Source : “Perspective 2020” by NASSCOM – E&Y), I think services would be most appropriate.

The competitive advantage for all the IT firms barring a few niche players , is sheer labour cost arbitrage...nothing more..The middle /senior management in IT firms are so used to easy money through body shopping , that there has been no competency build up to reach the next level of value chain..At this rate IT industry will not venture out into niche premium services for many years to come leading to its own downfall at the hands of vietnam, china and other emerging countries

Sanmina-SCI opens Chennai unit; to raise headcount to 10,000


The US-based Sanmina-SCI Corporation, a leader in electronic manufacturing services, would increase the headcount at its Chennai unit from 1,500 to 10,000 over a period of five years, a top company official said.


The company has invested Rs 250 crore for the facility at SIPCOT Industrial Park, at Oragadam near here, its 18th facility globally, Sammina-SCI Chairman Jure Sola told reporters here.

The unit was inaugurated by Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin today.

The company had already recruited 1,500 people, 80 per cent of them locals, for the facility, and would scale up the headcount to 10,000 over a period of five years, Sola said.

"When we signed the MoU with the Tamil Nadu government in June 2007, we proposed to invest Rs 225 crore and to provide employment to 1,300 people in this facility. But, investments made so far have already crossed Rs 250 crore," he said.

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/sanmina-sci-opens-chennai-unit-to-raise-headcount-to-10000/89671/on

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http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/29/stories/2010032954580400.htm

Stalin inaugurates manufacturing facility of Sanmina-SCI near Chennai

http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/29/images/2010032954580401.jpg

CHENNAI: To trigger manufacture of electronic components in Tamil Nadu on the lines of auto components, Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Sunday invited manufacturers to invest in the State.

Inaugurating the manufacturing facility of a US-based Sanmina-SCI on the Oragadam Electronic Hardware SEZ campus, he said: “Though Chennai has become a major manufacturing hub for electronic hardware, as a country we are still heavily dependent on import of electronic components. The import content is as high as 75 per cent to 85 per cent. This highlights the enormous potential for local manufacturing to substitute imports. In contrast, the local content in automobile projects is as high as 80 to 85 per cent.”

Mentioning that three out of the five top global Electronics Manufacturing services (EMS) firms, including Sanmina-SCI, had based their units near Chennai, Mr. Stalin requested the Sanmina-SCI officials to establish a printed circuit board manufacturing facility and assured them of full support.

The State government was able to attract electronic hardware projects such as Motorola, Dell, Samsung, Tessolve Semi-conductor, Videocon, Nokia-Siemens, Signet-Solar and Moser-Baer near Chennai with a total investment of about Rs.8,000 crore. They had provided jobs to over 45,000 persons (directly and indirectly).

“Since the electronics system manufacturing is human capital intensive, the direct to indirect employment multiplier ratio is about 1:6.3. It is for this reason that electronic hardware projects need to be attracted to our State. I have also requested Nokia to expand its operations substantially and to bring in their suppliers to Chennai,” he said.

Industries Secretary Rajeev Ranjan said that according to the original plan, the Sanmina-SCI was to invest Rs.225 crore and employ 1,300 people. “They have done better and invested around Rs.250 crore and employed 1,500 people, of which 80 per cent are from neighbouring villages.”

Sanmina-SCI Corporation president and Chief Operating Officer Hari Pillai said that they were three years ahead of schedule in terms of investment and would hire 10,000 people over the next five years. Currently, their plants in China and Mexico employed more than 10,000 people.

“Our long term vision is to be a true global major player in India and make it a best place in the world. India is the 18th country we are stepping in and we are committed to providing leading-edge technology services and cost competitive solutions to the Indian market and to the entire sub-continent,” said Sanmina-SCI Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jure Sola.

Located on 100 acres in Oragadam, Sanmina-SCI is a leading EMS provider focused on delivering complete end-to-end manufacturing capabilities and highly complex solutions to technology companies around the world. The markets served include communications, enterprise computing and storage, defence and aerospace, medical, renewable energy and multimedia markets.

Trivitron forms joint venture with Italian co (http://beta.thehindu.com/business/article304753.ece)
Corporate Reporter


The Chennai-based medical technology products manufacturer Trivitron Healthcare has formed a joint venture with ET Medical Devices of Italy to manufacture and market advanced technology cardiac diagnostic instruments.

Addressing presspersons here on Thursday, G. S. K. Velu, Managing Director, Trivitron, said the joint venture, ET Trivitron Medical Technologies, would promote the solutions under brand Cardiette-Cardioline. It would manufacture cardiac diagnostic instruments including ECG systems, stress test ECG, holter ECG, ABPM recording units, monitoring systems and telemedicine IT solutions.

The joint venture would set up its manufacturing facility at Trivitron's Medical Technology Park at SIPCOT, Sriperumbudur, near Chennai. The plant is expected to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2011. Till then, the existing facility of Trivitron in Chennai would manufacture these products.

Mr. Velu said there was an increased demand for cardiac diagnostic instruments and the Chennai facility would be largest one in Asia catering to all emerging markets. The joint venture would implement high-end tele cardiology and tele medicine solutions especially for rural people. He said Trivitron would hold 51 per cent and ET Medical the balance in the joint venture.

The new alliance was the fourth manufacturing joint venture for Trivitron. Trivitron would have around 10 such manufacturing facilities by 2010. The Park would be having collaborations with world-renowned medical technology companies.

Attilio Castelli, Managing Director and CEO, ET Medical Services, said the company was present in the Indian market distributing products through BPL since 1997 and over 20,000 units of various products had been sold. He said the joint venture, besides catering to the domestic market, would be a hub for exports to neighbouring countries.

^^ Tats on 25th march.. we missed it out :)

The competitive advantage for all the IT firms barring a few niche players , is sheer labour cost arbitrage...nothing more..The middle /senior management in IT firms are so used to easy money through body shopping , that there has been no competency build up to reach the next level of value chain..At this rate IT industry will not venture out into niche premium services for many years to come leading to its own downfall at the hands of vietnam, china and other emerging countries

All business is about cost arbitrage. The IT firms are not different. But there is qualitative difference. The labour pool is not some low end talent, there is certain level of education, talent and high end potential in them. They are doing white collar jobs and this is not bad to have. Regarding the value proposition etc, that will come from start-ups, venture and risk taking is where the action would be for changing the landscape. And this is bound to happen, when some small percentage of the existing IT labor pool will want to do things their way. It takes time. We have to be paranoid about other countries emerging, but for the present time, I think the threat from China and Vietnam are over-rated. These have been talked about for the last 10 years and nothing seems to change the current picture. Actually, Google and others are trying to pull out of China due to its oppressive rules of censorship.

On the Sanmina-SCI move into Oragadam: this is a good effort, a few more of the marquee manufacturers into Chennai would help. Chennai, if the cards are played right, can turn into a major hub for manufacture and export. The conditions are ripe, huge labor and talent pool, good education institutes, a major sea port and business friendly atmosphere (some more work needs to be done though). Dell has signaled its intention of moving away from China for manufacture. So have others. There is current sentiment amongst high-tech companies that continued business in China is against their principle of free market dynamics. GoDaddy Company for instance was appalled that their China customers were exposed to providing info to the CCCP about any connections with Tibet, Tianamen square protests, Taiwan and pro-democracy rallies, etc. Taking advantage of this climate, Chennai should drive the high tech companies to relocate their manufacture and export into Oragadam. More incentives, tax holidays and gurantee for power/water/land should do the trick. The positives far out weigh the short term sacrifice. Jobs will be plenty and the multiplicative effect would be more.

^^ On point No 1 - The labor pool is not some low end talent - surely - but can't understand how a Civil Eng or a Chemical Eng can add value to S/w. There was a mad rush of all engineers irrespective of their branch towards IT. So wat IT industry wanted was a smart/educated coolie. (sorry to use that word again, but thats the fact). This is certainly body shopping and going for cost arbitrage. Having said this, we should certainly go for niche products and R&D. Big companies like Infy, WIPRO, TCS etc should start allocating a good portion of their revenues towards Developmental software.

on Point No. 2 : Its certainly a good move, but somehow I am not seeing the drive now which was there during Dayanidhi Maran's tenure - he was instrumental in bringing in top class MNCs to Chennai. Hope a person of that caliber and charisma is put in charge to bring top class MNCs to Chennai.

So called business friendly atmosphere should be sustained to have an effect of the future rulers of the state. Some one started the corruption it sustained , now it has become a way of life. We should do the same as far as industries are concerned, motivate them, tell them we cannot implement projects as in West (bcoz for every project there will be a delay in terms of land acquisition, protest from other teams, red tapes, vendor delay, many other parameters, but some where things will happen slowly.

I think business and investors understand this in India. They dont expect things to happen overnight. Similarly regarding new MNC's in chennai its bound to happen, but will happen slowly.

Sriperumbudur: Everyday, A Angamuthu, 50, and two other farmers supervise the irrigation of all the farmlands, extending to about 700 acres, in Vallamkottai village in Sriperumbudur, about 50 km from Chennai. Angamuthu has been doing this since his childhood — not for the meagre income it gives him, but due to a sense of prestige. For, being a hereditary occupation, overseeing distribution of water was the exclusive right of a few, who not only determine the quantum of water to be used in farmlands and domestic purposes, but are also responsible for checking contamination, if any, of the water bodies like lakes and ponds in the village, and even wastage and flooding.
However, the villagers fear that all such arrangements meant for optimal use of the storage available in rural water bodies may not last if the government goes ahead with its proposal to acquire 642 hectares of land in Sriperumbudur taluk for new industrial and automobile units to be set up by multinational companies. The poor farmers of Vallam revenue village, which includes Vallam, Vallamkottai and Mettupallam villages, where much of these lands would be acquired, believe that their future is bleak if lakes, ponds, catchment areas and feeding canals, besides tracts of agricultural land are acquired by the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (SIPCOT). .......................

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http://newstodaynet.com/newsindex.php?id=21853%20&%20section=6

Tamilnadu Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin today invited the captains of the Indian industry to make use of the excellent investment and business opportunities that are available in the State.

Speaking at the inauguration of the expansion project of Nokia-Siemens at Oragadam near here, the Deputy Chief Minister requested the Nokia-Siemens to bring their vendors to Chennai so as to reduce the import content in their products.

Stating that Nokia-Siemens Networks are one of the largest telecommunications equipment-suppliers in the world, he thanked them for choosing Chennai to locate their manufacturing facility.

‘Earlier in an MoU with Tamilnadu government, they committed to invest not less than Rs300 crore and provide direct employment to 400 persons. Nokia-Siemens have already invested Rs 220 crore and provided direct employment to over 300 persons. I am happy that they propose an additional investment of over Rs 105 crore, increasing the employment to 500 persons directly, and another 700 indirectly, over the next two years’.:cheers:

Stalin added: The product line of Nokia-Siemens Chennai has enormous growth potential, as the Indian telecom sector is expected to continue to grow significantly in future. Within India, Tamilnadu Circle remains, one of the front-runners in terms of Tele-density and occupies the top position in number of wireless subscribers. He added: ‘according to the CII Ernst & Young report titled ‘India 2012: Telecom growth continues’, revenue from India’s telecom services industry is projected to reach 54 billion US dollar in 2012, as against 31 billion US dollar in 2008'.

He pointed out that with the launch of 3G in India, Nokia-Siemens is well placed to grow rapidly.Stalin further stated that with the new production line that is inaugurated, the company will produce state-of-the-art 3G equipment like, 3G radio equipment, 3G microwaves, 3G transport equipments and 3G switching equipment.

Among those who were present included T M Anbarasan, State Labour Minister T M Anbarasan, Herbert Merz, Member of Executive Board, Nokia-Siemens Network, Urs Pennanen, head of India Region, Nokia-Siemens Network, Rajeev Ranjan, principal secretary (Industries), Dr M Govindan, CMD, SIPCOT and Satendra Singh, Head of Operations, India, Nokia-Siemens Network.

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Arailway line to Sriperumbudur is a promise contained in almost every MoU the state has signed with companies that have a presence in the manufacturing belt. From Hyundai to Saint Gobain, companies have been promised tracks that will move both goods and people.
“We ship 2,000 tonnes of glass by rail and 3,000 tonnes through the port,” says B Santhanam, MD, Saint Gobain, whose factory is on the NH4 in Sriperumbudur. “We could save a day if we had a train as per the MoU. A railway line would be environmentally friendly and cost-effective, as well as reduce the number of container trucks that travel through the city to the port and the railway station,” he says.
Hyundai’s MoU, signed in 1999, also mentions a railway line but such a link to Sriperumbudur, which is home to a number of manufacturing businesses, seems a distant dream.
The state government is yet to pay heed to the popular demand to extend the Chennai Metro Rail to Sriperumbudur. “One idea to decongest the roads is to extend the metro upto Nazarathpet. Now, employees spend at least three hours a day on the road,” says Santhanam.
Metro rail officials say seven corridors were studied before settling on two that had the highest traffic density. “The first phase of the metro connects the airport, Chennai central, Egmore railway station, and several suburban train stations. Once phase one takes off, we will think about extending it to other areas,” says TV Somanathan, managing director, Chennai Metro Rail Limited.
Southern Railway’s proposal to connect Sriperumbudur with Avadi, Kanchipuram and Guduvancheri has also been pending before the railway board for over a year.
Southern Railway set its eyes on Sriperumbudur a couple of years ago when industries demanded a link for freight movement. Officials carried out three surveys to find out the best route to link Sriperumbudur with two major railway trunk lines –– the Chennai Central-Jolarpet-Katpadi line and the Chennai Egmore-Kanniyakumari southern trunk route.
They decided to lay a track from Avadi to Sriperumbudur and from there two more tracks –– one to Kanchipuram and another to Guduvancheri. “This project is estimated to cost Rs 1,000 crore. The proposal has been sent to the railway board. We are awaiting parliamentary sanction and funds from the railway board,” says Southern Railway chief administrative officer R Ramanathan.
But the links to Sriperumbudur may not take off unless funding issues are resolved. Ramanathan says the project could be taken up on a costsharing basis or could be funded fully by the railways. “This is yet to be finalised. It has to be executed as early as possible,” he says.
The NH4 at Sriperumbudur is a corridor with heavy traffic. “I stood at Motel Highway junction and counted the vehicles that went past. Within one hour, 8178 vehicles passed the junction from the Chennai side,” says NS Srinivasan of Transport Advisory Forum, who conducted his study in March 2008. “No road can take that kind of traffic on a sustained basis.”
(with inputs from Shalini
Umachandran)

‘Time to focus on measures to ease traffic congestion’


I have been travelling from my residence in Kolathur to Sriperumbadur daily for the past seven years, as I supply food to a number of companies there. Each and every person who works in and around Sriperumbudur has a tale of woe of his own. Sriperumbudur lacks amenities such as good schools and hospitals. I hate travelling but since my two children need to study in Chennai, I have no choice but to spend nearly four hours a day travelling to and fro. I was very happy to read the article highlighting the problems in Sriperumbudur. I hope the authorities take some concrete steps toward the betterment of Sriperumbadur, such as bringing in the much-needed railway line. | K Biju Baskar
Commuting is not easy because of traffic jams. It’s time to take measures for smooth traffic flow. | Sumit Aggarwal
MTC should enumerate all families using public transport, collecting details about the location of the residence and work place, boarding and alighting points, working hours and the type of bus they would prefer. Based on this report, MTC should plan its routes, number of buses etc in co-operation with the railways. Further, MTC should also make a record of the families who want to shift closer to their offices. Based on this, the housing board can come forward to construct houses or provide housing plots to these families with the condition that they move to this place on or before a particular date. This may decongest Chennai city to a certain extent. | R Ganesan The problem can be solved if the government increases the number of buses. There should be more AC busses so that the journey is comfortable. | Nirmal Raman Kannaiyan It is not at all easy to commute to OMR, GST Road and Sriperumbudur. It's high time the government acted and fast! | Venu

Source : Epaper TOI

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/04/12/stories/2010041251021300.htm

The State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (SIPCOT) intends to buy 2,500 acres to the north and east of the Oragadam industrial estate, to make enough land available for industries to set up shop there.

Dr M. Govindan, Chairman and Managing Director, SIPCOT, on Saturday said that the corporation would buy 1,800 acres to the north and 700 acres to the east of Oragadam, to augment its land bank.

Once a sleepy village some 40 km south-west of Chennai, Oragadam is today a thriving industrial centre, with global majors such as Daimler, Renault-Nissan and Nokia Siemens Networks and large Indian companies such as Apollo Tyres setting up manufacturing units there.

Since 2006, SIPCOT has handed over 2,803 acres to industries, Dr Govindan said, addressing the gathering at the inauguration of the expansion project of Nokia Siemens Network. (The company has started manufacturing 3G telecom hardware there.)

As many as 117 units have set up shop at Oragadam, with total investments of Rs 19,107 crore, generating 55,000 jobs, he said.
:cheers:
SIPCOT intends to set up a skill upgradation centre at Oragadam, spending Rs 2 crore for that purpose, Dr Govindan said.

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/ril-jamnagar-unit-sez-zlesrs-79k-cr-exports/391642/

Nokia SEZ in Tamil Nadu ranks third with its exports expected to be in the range of Rs 15,000-18,000 crore, said sources privy to the development.:cheers::cheers:

Based on the complaints of some forumers, I have deleted many irrelevant posts here.

Request all to stick to the core focus of the thread

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/indl-goods-/-svs/petrochem/Andrew-Yule-may-defer-its-Tide-Water-Oil-stake-sale-plan/articleshow/5806033.cms

Meanwhile, Tide Water Oil is planning to expand its lubricants producing capacity after two new plants are commissioned, which are being set up at a cost of Rs 35 crore. Mr Datta, who is also a director at Tide Water Oil, said that the company is setting up a modern lubes blending plant at Oragadam near Chennai, which is expected to commence production shortly.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/property-/-cstruction/Vision-India-to-build-logistics-parks-in-Bangalore-Chennai/articleshow/5828181.cms

..........."Our focus areas are Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad. To start with, we will be building a logistics park in Bangalore (52 acres, outlay $60 million) and in Chennai (40 acres, outlay $50 million). Our target clientele would be retailers, international third party logistics providers, and industrial and automobile units," Ariel Lahmi, director said Sunday.

He said the company is awaiting regulatory clearances and would start construction work after getting the green signal.

"Sixty per cent of the warehouse space in both the parks have already been booked," Lahmi said.

The Bangalore logistics park will come up on the Old Madras Road whereas the Chennai park will come up near Sriperumbudur.
........

Hi,
I am plan to buy few plots near Padappai. I have given the link to the layout site:

http://www.sakthivinayagarproperties.com/svppadappai.asp

Can anyone please let me know whether this layout or site will also get affected by SIPCOT land acquistion now or near future ? Is it advisiable to buy the plots in this location ?

Thanks in advance for your valuable suggestion.

Regards,
Ramesh

Hi,
I am plan to buy few plots near Padappai. I have given the link to the layout site:

http://www.sakthivinayagarproperties.com/svppadappai.asp

Can anyone please let me know whether this layout or site will also get affected by SIPCOT land acquistion now or near future ? Is it advisiable to buy the plots in this location ?

Thanks in advance for your valuable suggestion.

Regards,
Ramesh

do worry padappai is good 10 kms away from oragadam so i dont see the possibility of SIPCOT will acquire the land .

Thanks Arun. But this is what worries me...

<<
Dr M. Govindan, Chairman and Managing Director, SIPCOT, on Saturday said that the corporation would buy 1,800 acres to the north and 700 acres to the east of Oragadam, to augment its land bank.
>>

I read this in The Hindu as well as in this forum. I was told by the promoter that this site is 4-5 KM from Oragadam Jn and 1 KM from Vandalur-Wallajabad 4 lane highway. 14 KM from Tambaram.

Land price quoted around Rs.500 per SQFT. I am worried about the land acquistion and with price around 12 L per ground, i don't think it is worthy to take a risk on this layout.

Please let anyone advice on this.

Thanks,
Ramesh

do worry padappai is good 10 kms away from oragadam so i dont see the possibility of SIPCOT will acquire the land .
U meant don't worry?

Hi,
I am plan to buy few plots near Padappai. I have given the link to the layout site:

http://www.sakthivinayagarproperties.com/svppadappai.asp

Can anyone please let me know whether this layout or site will also get affected by SIPCOT land acquistion now or near future ? Is it advisiable to buy the plots in this location ?

Thanks in advance for your valuable suggestion.

Regards,
Ramesh

Please do not use this forum for personal issues.

You seem to be new to this forum. Please send PM here after to those whom you want to ask.

SIPCOT is planning to acquire upto Padappai.

I am sorry about that.

I thought its a public forum and you can post any issues/updates.

BTW, i did not get this line <<Please send PM here after to those whom you want to ask.>>

Thanks

^^ It is a public forum for public cause and not for personal inquiries. What Kannan meant here is if you need any personal data please send a private message to concerned person if you want, like you can ping Kannan himself :D

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Interviews/articleshow/5861368.cms

After inaugurating three new air conditioner production lines at Noida and Chennai plants, the company is coming up with a new plant for refrigerators in Chennai by August.

Regarding SIPCOT's plan to acquire 2500 acres of land, I understand that the land identified for acquisition is fertile and is being used for agriculture. Pls correct me if my understanding is wrong.

If this is the case, I personally feel that this should not be done. We should not allow our agricultural lands to be eaten away slowly. I know development is at a cost, but it cannot be at the cost of agricultural land when there is huge barren land available in other districts. The land owners will be given compensation which will be far low than the ruling rate. They will be promised employment but since they do not have any other skills, they will end up as daily wage labourers.

Moreover, the infrastructure development in Sri/Orgadam areas have lagged behind. First the govt has to build good infra for the existing plants. Companies like Hyundai and Saint Gobain have already started complaining about lack of infrastructure which was promised when the MoUs were signed. Let us develop other districts/cities instead of choking Sriperumbudur/Oragadam area.

Regarding SIPCOT's plan to acquire 2500 acres of land, I understand that the land identified for acquisition is fertile and is being used for agriculture. Pls correct me if my understanding is wrong.

As far as I know, most of these lands have not been under cultivation at least during the past decade. Exceptions may be there such as lands near lakes in some villages but he percentage is miniscule.

But in revenue records, they all are shown as agrilands to avoid higher taxes.

The idea, location and execution by SIPCOt so far has been good if not execellent. Disbursement of compensation may be a little delayed which has to be speeded up. Gap between Market rates vs Govt rates are getting narrower. But still long way to go.

^^thanks for the clarifications kannan. This land could be for the Country Specific Zones, I suppose.

Is the State Govt thinking seriously on upgrading the infrastructure pls?

^^thanks for the clarifications kannan. This land could be for the Country Specific Zones, I suppose.

Is the State Govt thinking seriously on upgrading the infrastructure pls?

SIPCOT is acquiring 3000 acres in that area. The acquisition will be along the road connecting Sriperumpudhur and Oragadam. Them Oragadam to Padappai on the tambaram road.

^^thanks for the clarifications kannan. This land could be for the Country Specific Zones, I suppose.

Is the State Govt thinking seriously on upgrading the infrastructure pls?

There is a tender to develop comprehensive infrastructure in the Sriperumpudur corridor.
http://www.sipcot.com/default.htm

Nokia, the world's top cell phone maker, on Friday said production at its India plant has crossed 350 million handsets over its four years of operations.

The facility, which caters to local and export markets, has commenced exports to North America and Europe, taking its total export markets to 70, Nokia said in a statement.

The Finland major had set up the world’s largest electronic hardware manufacturing unit on 210.87 acres allotted at Telecom SEZ park promoted by State owned Sipcot. The State Government has also extended a structured package of assistance to the MNC.

Under the MoU signed in 2006, Nokia had committed to invest $ 150 Million over four years. However, encouraged by the buoyant demand for mobility in India, total investment touched $ 285 Million in less than three years of its operations. Nokia started its operations with 550 employees in January 2006 and scaled it to the current 8000, 70% are women.

http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-48128320100430

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/hardware/Nokia-production-crosses-350-mn-handsets-in-four-years/articleshow/5877326.cms

http://www.mydigitalfc.com/news/alstom-set-rail-coach-unit-near-chennai-210

In yet another show of Tamil Nadu’s emergence as a strong manufacturing hub, French engineering group Alstom has chosen to set up a new facility near Chennai at an investment of Rs 200 crore for making rail coaches.:cheers:

“This will be a significant project and Alstom has decided to put up a rail coach unit in Tamil Nadu. The coaches will be produced for metro rail projects. The new facility will come up on a site in the Oragadam industrial corridor near Chennai,” a top government official on condition of anonymity told Financial Chronicle.

“The labour-intensive project will trigger a multiplier effect and we expect the project to attract a lot of ancillaries in the engineering fabrication segments,” he added. With fast-growing urbanisation and the need for environment-friendly mobility solutions, the public transport system in several big cities in India are going for a major overhaul through establishment of metro rail projects.

Alstom looks to tap the potential in the upcoming metro rail projects as well as to strengthen its presence in the Indian market. Rail infrastructure solutions such as traction equipment, signalling equipment and train management solutions come under transport sector of Alstom’s business. The company’s key customers include Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and Indian Railways

http://www.mydigitalfc.com/news/alstom-set-rail-coach-unit-near-chennai-210

It will be a feather in the cap. Alstom is a pioneer in this field and they have the technology for HSR's. The french TGV runs on their technology. Atleast this would trigger our Railways to go for HSR's and a good competition for the THAGARA DABBA makers ICF.

It will be a feather in the cap. Alstom is a pioneer in this field and they have the technology for HSR's. The french TGV runs on their technology. Atleast this would trigger our Railways to go for HSR's and a good competition for the THAGARA DABBA makers ICF.

^^^^
The following article says.... its in AP's Sri City
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/08/27/stories/2009082752410100.htm

It has jumped from AP to TN ??

Good news indeed. I am not able to see any press release from Alstom website though.
Hoping to hear from Horse's mouth.

How long are we gonna stifle the potential by not getting Rail link. We will have Alstom making rail coaches but no rail connectivity ??

Sriperumbudur can be the next Shenzhen if we focus on infrastructure.

Would love to challenge the forummers to come with creative ideas to put pressure on the Government(s) to get this much needed rail link.

:bash:

^^^^
The following article says.... its in AP's Sri City
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/08/27/stories/2009082752410100.htm

It has jumped from AP to TN ??

Yep, that is going to be interesting. Hope TN can counter Sri City effectively with new expansion of industrial estates.

How long are we gonna stifle the potential by not getting Rail link. We will have Alstom making rail coaches but no rail connectivity ??

Sriperumbudur can be the next Shenzhen if we focus on infrastructure.

Would love to challenge the forummers to come with creative ideas to put pressure on the Government(s) to get this much needed rail link.

:bash:

Pls refer post no. 303 by Subra regarding infrastructure development.

SIPCOT generally has been very lethargic and insensitive with regard to developing infrastructure. Hyundai and Saint Gobain have started complaining abt the lack of infrastructure and with further development in that area + proposed CSZs, it is imperative to take this issue seriously and act quickly. Otherwise, the proposed projects will remain only on paper.

The Singapore-based supply chain services provider YCH Group would invest close to Rs 1,200 crore over the next five years for enhancing its presence in India, a top official of the company said here.

The company engaged in end-to-end supply chain management for the last 50 years would set up 12 more green warehouse facilities at Rs 1,200 crore, YCH Group Chairman and CEO Robert Yap told reporters at the inauguration of their first greenhouse facility at SIPCOT-SEZ in Sriperumbudur near here.

The green house status to the facility was given by the Indian Green Building Council.

The Chennai facility set up at an investment of Rs 100 crore would predominantly cater to YCH Group's customers like Dell, Motorola, among others, he said.

To a query, he said it would also cater to the auto-component industry considering the opportunities available in automotive sector with Chennai being considered as 'Detroit' of Asia.

The Chennai facility spread across 5.25 lakh square feet, has a total installed capacity of 50,000 pallets and the other facilities would also have similar capacities.

Declining to divulge their group's turnover, he said they were expecting revenue of Rs 500 crore over the next three years from their Indian operations.

On the Free Trade Agreement signed between India and ASEAN Countries in 2008, Yap said the agreement would only increase the market potential for India. "However there are positive things for us," he said.

On their employee strength, YCH Logistics India CEO Balaji V said the Chennai facility would have around 300 people, (mainly from the neighbourhood). "However, once other facilities start operations then we would double it," he said.

The facility was formally inaugurated by Singapore Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo.

Source: http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/ych-group-to-invest-close-to-rs-1200-cr-in-next-five-years/93455/on

Global express and logistics firm DHL would set up its First Free Trade Warehousing Zone near here at an investment of $ 10 million, a top company official said here on Thursday.

The Free Trade Warehousing zone, to come up at Sriperumbudur near here and spread across 2.60 lakh square feet, would cater to multiple industries including automobile, engineering and manufacturing, fashion and apparel, DHL Lemuir Logistics Chief Execut ive Officer, Mr Christoph Remund, told reporters.

"Given the easy accessibility to Ports and to Airports, the facility would provide distribution management and trading, both in and out of India (for us)", he said.

Stating that the firm has already invested Euro 300 million (in 2004) for their operations in India, DHL Global Forwarding Management Chief Executive Officer (South Asia Pacific), Mr Amadou Diallos, said this facility was selected because of presence of various industrial clusters near Chennai.

"The first phase of our Chennai facility is likely to be operational by November 2010", he said. The new facility would provide speedy delivery of cargo, integrated solutions, taxation benefits to customers, good transportation network and world class infrastructure.

Source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blnus/02271773.htm

Foxconn Factory Construction - Chennai, India
http://www.aconex.com/Media/images/Foxconn-PAGE-8357aa58-6967-4ad7-82d1-54be4e58b597.jpg
The Aconex web-based information management service is supporting Consolidated Construction Consortium Ltd’s (CCCL) construction of a factory in Chennai, India, for Taiwanese electronics good manufacturer, Foxconn.

Over the ten-month project lifecycle, teams working on the factory construction are expected to create and distribute thousands of documents and correspondence such as drawings, contracts, approvals, variations and requests for information. Aconex will help streamline collaboration between organizations by controlling the large volume of data generated on the project.

“As a step in modernizing our document controls, we approached Aconex. Through using the system, we hope to maintain a proper record of documentations, which will avoid errors caused by using old drawings. The system will also help us to deal with the various parties involved with the project.” - Mr. Shivakumar, Project Manager at CCCL

Recalling Foxconn News...

Foxconn Electronics, a Foxconn Technology group company, will invest $1.5 billion(Rs.7750 Crores) over the next three years in setting up a manufacturing unit in Tamil Nadu.

The facility will manufacture connectors, accessory parts for mobile phones as well as computer hardware, said Thomas Chang, director, Taipei World Trade Centre Liaison Office in India at an interactive meet organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

Taiwanese FDI in India so far was $500 million, said Chang.

While 30% of Taiwanese companies in India are joint ventures with an Indian partner, the rest are Indian subsidiaries of Taiwanese companies. Foxconn would operate through its wholly-owned Indian subsidiary, said Chang.

It's comes true now

I think Foxconn Electronic Chip Manufacturing Unit is going to be the big one in India investing over some 7,500 crores ,none other Companies invest in Chip Manufacturing Unit.

AMD proposed to invest 3 billion in Hyderabad for Chip Manu. Unit.But due to some reasons they were stopped.

And so this is only company investing in India ,this much amount in Manufacturing unit , Particularly in Chennai.

^^ I would love to see iPods and iPhones manufactured here by Foxconn for Apple. In the past few days, there have been troubles in Foxconn plants in China creating controversies especially around Apple products like the iPods and iPhones which are manufactured by Foxconn.

Foxconn Factory Construction - Chennai, India
http://www.aconex.com/Media/images/Foxconn-PAGE-8357aa58-6967-4ad7-82d1-54be4e58b597.jpg
The Aconex web-based information management service is supporting Consolidated Construction Consortium Ltd’s (CCCL) construction of a factory in Chennai, India, for Taiwanese electronics good manufacturer, Foxconn.

Over the ten-month project lifecycle, teams working on the factory construction are expected to create and distribute thousands of documents and correspondence such as drawings, contracts, approvals, variations and requests for information. Aconex will help streamline collaboration between organizations by controlling the large volume of data generated on the project.

“As a step in modernizing our document controls, we approached Aconex. Through using the system, we hope to maintain a proper record of documentations, which will avoid errors caused by using old drawings. The system will also help us to deal with the various parties involved with the project.” - Mr. Shivakumar, Project Manager at CCCL

The source is here - http://www.aconex.com/Clients/Aconex-in-Action/Aconex-In-Action/Chennai-Factory.html

I think Foxconn Electronic Chip Manufacturing Unit is going to be the big one in India investing over some 7,500 crores ,none other Companies invest in Chip Manufacturing Unit.

AMD proposed to invest 3 billion in Hyderabad for Chip Manu. Unit.But due to some reasons they were stopped.

And so this is only company investing in India ,this much amount in Manufacturing unit , Particularly in Chennai.

Where did you get the figure 7,500 crores from?

Where did you get the figure 7,500 crores from?

Foxconn's comittment was 1 to 2 billion dollars.

http://in.ibtimes.com/articles/20071206/foxconn-taiwan-mobile-phone-hon-hai-nokia_all.htm

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Oragadam-corridor-emerges-logistics--supply-chain-hub/635734/

Chennai: In the fast-changing industrial space in Chennai, the Oragadam industrial corridor has emerged a hub for supply chain and logistic services. Having attracted around Rs 25,000-crore investments from 120-130 small to big companies from across different sectors, the corridor, is expected to attract more investments in the coming years.

“Driven by the huge domestic demand, skilled labour pool and huge suppliers network in and around Chennai, the Oragadam industrial corridor has transformed Chennai’s industrial space and could attract over Rs 20,000 crore from leading auto manufacturers, auto component companies, FMCGs, logistics/warehouse service providers, IT and ITeS operators and a host of FMCG companies,” said Sanjay Upendram, former director, KPMG and the co-founder and CEO, Amarthi Management Consulting.

Oragadam’s good connectivity with Bengaluru, Kolkata, Vizag, Vijayawada, Kochi, Trivandrum and a few major cities in the western region has set an unprecedented example for other industrial corridors. Costs for logistics in India stand at 13-14% of GDP, compared with 8-9% for developed countries.

“The government has given impetus to the logistics sector by allowing 100% FDI, eliminating CST, introducing VAT, improving multi-modal transportation through projects such as dedicated freight corridor, encouraging public private partnership and 100% income tax exemption for port development projects, Upendram said.

Oragadam owes its strategic advantage to a large manufacturing presence, demand base, supplier presence, established infrastructure and multi-modal connectivity. It is also well connected to the Chennai port, the Chennai Central railway station and an international airport.

According to Upendram, Oragadam industrial corridor has seen some major investments by large Indian and global players from automotive, FMCG/durables and industrial products during the last few years due to a special boost provided by the Tamil Nadu government.

Across the automotive industry, Oragadam represents an excellent hub for manufacturing and distributing, as more than six automotive OEMs and over 50 suppliers are located close to each other in the Oragadam-Sriperumbudur cluster. This will enable supply of domestic and imported parts in a just-in-time approach. Companies such as Nissan-Renault, Mercedes, Daimler, Delphi-TVS, Komatsu, GKN Driveline, Apollo Tyres, Sundaram Auto Components have set up major bases in this corridor.

Similarly, for FMCG and durable goods companies, Oragadam will become a gateway and logistics hub for the rapidly-growing population of south India.

The region’s proximity to Sriperumbudur—home to large manufacturing companies such as Hyundai, Ford, Saint Gobain, Nokia, Dell etc—will benefit the region. A six-lane highway road (SH57) is being constructed to connect these twin towns.

The growth is likely to drive the need for seamless supply chain and logistics to cater to the Indian and global markets. Several global and Indian logistics players like DHL, Realtime Logistics, ShriKailash Logistics have either set up their logistics hubs or in the process of setting them up in this region....

The Kochi based Sree Kailas Group is setting up a logistic park at Oragadam, the emerging industrial and logistic hub of Chennai.

The foundation stone for the project – Shri Kailash Logistics Ltd – will be laid by Mr S. Sivathanu Pillai, Chairman of the Group, at Oragadam and launching will be done by Mr N. Venkataramani, Managing Director, India Pistons Ltd, on June 23.

Investment

Set up at an investment of Rs 120 crore, the park will be established in 30 acres with seven lakh sq ft of land and three lakh sq ft of CFS (container freight station) area.

A land extent of five acres will be open container yard. The facility will encompass five warehouses, which will be BTS (built to suit) for diverse industries such as auto, commodities, FMCG, textiles etc, Mr S. Rajkumar, Director, Sree Kailas Group, said.

Well connected

The park will be well connected with all the highways through the outer ring road in Chennai, thereby benefitting various third-party logistics (3PL) players, manufacturers, C&F (carrying and forwarding) agents etc. The first phase of the park is expected to be completed before March 31, 2011, he said.

Catering to needs

According to Mr Rajkumar, the Group has envisioned the Logicity as a world-class park that will cater to the specific needs of world players looking to set foot and expand their presence in the market.

Shri Kailash Logicity has been conceptualised and designed by the group in conjunction with BPS Global, a pioneer and international leader in infrastructure consultancy.

The establishment of a logistics facility holds potential at a time when the country is poised for a major leap and the world business community is watching its open markets for venues to invest and expand, he added.

The Rs 320-crore Sree Kailas Group is concentrating in paper, logistics, residential projects and construction sector.

source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/06/21/stories/2010062151150200.htm

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshowpics/6087051.cms

211 acres, 8000+ people working in 3 shifts etc.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshowpics/6087051.cms

Finnish mobile giant Nokia is at the epicentre of employment in Sriperumbudur, aptly dubbed the Shenzhen of India, as ancillaries and vendors cluster around it in committed synchronicity.

A walk around the bowels of the 211-acre Nokia handset-making facility throws up signs-'We can do 750k phones/day,' 'Aim zero customer complaint,' 'Let's achieve 20 million/period,' 'Let's produce with 100% process adherence'.

Targets and standards are defined as uniformed workers mill around the shopfloor in clockwork precision. Perhaps that explains why in four years since its inception in 2006, the Sriperumbudur plant has churned out over 350 million handsets, a record of sorts with the fastest ramp up among the nine global factories of Nokia.

8,000-odd people work in three shifts

It all begins at the 'I-hub', or the first and the last mile in the entire supply chain process. This is a separate building in the facility where components freighted by five nearby vendors are agglomerated and manually sent across to the 'supermarket' from where they move to the various lines.

In the last mile, the finished handset arrives here for the final packing-chargers, batteries, earphones, accessories and booklets complete the package.

To the plant director, Sachin Saxena, the term 'shopfloor' sounds somewhat derogatory. "Don't call it shopfloor. At the plant, respect for individuals is very high. We are not hierarchy-driven… everyone has access to me, they can mail or even make phone calls," he emphasises.

With 8,000-odd people working in three shifts, individual attention gets blurred but the processes seem to have a moral halo of their own.

Kaizen championships once in every six months

Right at the entrance, any visitor to the plant is greeted with a 'No PO (Purchase Order), No Pay,' sticker, demonstrating the output levels expected from the workers who produce the sophisticated precision mobile handsets for exports to other markets. A five-member kaizen committee even evaluates the suggestions of these workers from time to time.

Every Tuesday, the management team also goes to the "work floor" to address grievances. "In the initial phase of production, the quality aspect was a challenge as mobile-making skills were not available in India.

But workers undergo a three-week training that has helped Nokia India to be on par with global operations as far as productivity levels are concerned, Saxena elaborates.

Kaizens, or improvements in the plant and processes, run over 8,000 in any given year all across the plant. Each worker, on average, gives out more than one kaizen a year.

There are kaizen championships held once every six months wherein a theme is chosen-say, safety or waste minimisation.

Workers are encouraged to send in their suggestions

The workers are encouraged to send in their entries on such overarching themes, which are then evaluated by the kaizen committee. The best suggestions are implemented and rewards follow.

There are also regular kaizens which departmental committees (4-5 members) evaluate on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Whenever a kaizen is found to bring in immediate results, the department head takes the decision and implements it.

For example, a couple of weeks ago, a significant kaizen took root on the mounting of the white board that glues the casing with the printed circuit board.

Simply put, the kaizen merely changed the sitting position of the worker, earlier, while they sat next to each other, today they sit face-to-face. It reduced the cycle time with an obvious upshot to output.

Aim zero customer complaint
The 'keymat' is another kaizen that the Chennai facility has contributed. Even other global shopfloors of Nokia have picked this up. The cellphones are exported to different markets. So based on orders of the consumers, a keymat has been prepared that enables the operator to pick up the keypad meant for that particular market.

This avoids any mismatch. For example, if an order of a Middle East customer in Dubai is processed. In this case, the Arabic keypad is highlighted to the operator, who in turn picks that set of keypads to match the casing.

Besides, random tumble tests at the adjacent test lab that subject phones and chargers to about 150 grueling mock drills, are par for the course. Saxena himself demonstrates the robustness of his machine by flinging his latest N-900 to the wall.

As it lands on the floor, the drill at the plant gets even clearer as one of the posters at the entrance, 'Aim zero customer complaint', echoes out loud.

Its already late to bring rail link (atleast the plan) to this Shenzhen of India. Please do something govt. 8000 people working on shifts (i really pity them). People are getting frustrated on the travel.

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/attachments/commercial-vehicles-india/310470d1268913805t-daimler-india-commercial-vehicles-unveils-test-track-oragadam-near-chennai-image-1.jpg

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Its already late to bring rail link (atleast the plan) to this Shenzhen of India. Please do something govt. 8000 people working on shifts (i really pity them). People are getting frustrated on the travel.

Its a family Govt.Karunanidhi will only do for his family.The stupid DMK cadre will only wave widened palm indicating loyalty to only udaya suriyan's Kalaignar only.

@georgenadar: nice pics of Test track.

George. You did it again with your pictures.

Idhu namma oora.. Interesting testing track.

Are these part of the truck facility thats coming up ? or are they different.

^More info about Daimler ICV. Total area is 400 acres and test track is 47 acres included in total area. Total investment 4400C.

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/commercial-vehicles-india/77685-daimler-india-commercial-vehicles-unveils-test-track-oragadam-near-chennai.html

The above link also shows similar test track for AL.

i want chennai to lead in india..............................mad for chennai

LG Electronics plans new plant in the South

Eyeing over 30 per cent year-on-year growth in the next five years, LG Electronics is planning to invest $300 million in India towards capacity expansion and boost its India-specific research and design activities.

“To meet growing demand for our products across various verticals, we will be investing $300 million by 2013. We are considering setting up a new plant in the South to cater to domestic as well as overseas demand,” LG Electronics India Ltd (LGEIL). Managing Director Moon B. Shin told The Hindu here on Friday.

LGEIL, which currently has two plants in Greater Noida and Pune, will be adding new assembly lines across various product categories.

“The new plant would come up in any of the southern states as it depends on how the state governments cooperate with us and help us in setting up the new plant. We also have the option of expanding our production capacity at the existing Pune plant,” he said.

Commenting on LG's future growth in India, Mr. Shin said: “We hope to see our revenue growing from Rs. 17,000 crore to over Rs. 45,000 crore in the next five years…which means that our contribution to overall global sales will go up from 6 per cent to 12 per cent by 2015. We also see our exports growing exponentially.

“The contribution of exports revenues to our total earnings would go up from 12 per cent to 30 per cent by 2015. Today we do $300 million worth of exports from India.”

He said LCD and GSM products would be their main revenue drivers in the years to come as they would be launching new innovative products.

“We will be launching at least 50 new LCD models this year, including a 3D LCD TV next month, while our GSM mobile handsets will cater to both premium as well as low-cost market (Rs. 1,000-1,500). In the next five years, we hope that revenue contribution from these two verticals would go up from 25 per cent to 50 per cent,” he said. However, refrigerators and air conditioners continue to be its biggest contributors.

Special products

Mr. Shin also said that the company's focus was on innovation and they would soon come out with special products in new categories such as kitchen solutions, commercial air-conditioners, healthcare products like air and water purifiers.

“Future lifestyle products are being designed keeping in mind the requirements of Indian consumers, while we will also come out with products specifically for rural markets to increase our penetration in villages by giving rural folks right products at right prices,” Mr. Shin added.

Link: Click here (http://www.thehindu.com/business/companies/article485514.ece)

Lets not forget the Global Automotive Research Centre with its own test track for commercial and retail use coming up at Oragadam.

Oragadam calling

Oragadam calling


http://www.hindu.com/pp/2010/07/03/stories/2010070350020100.htm
Rapid industrial development in some suburbs have caught the eye of builders. Oragadam is the latest on their radar, reports Prince Frederick







GROWTH DRIVER The Renault Nissan factory set on the six-lane State Highway linking Oragadam and Singaperumal Koil

Maraimalai Nagar, Sriperumbudur and now Oragadam. The first two are industrial zones that developed into self-contained areas with residential spaces, educational institutions, hospitals and other social infrastructural facilities. Now there are distinct signs that the third will also go the same way.

Oragadam, one of the biggest automobile hubs in South Asia, is evolving into a multi-faceted industrial zone. The Oragadam SIPCOT area contains a diversity of industries, including engineering, bio-tech, IT and electronics units. The cream of technology majors have set up shop: Renault Nissan, Daimler AG, Komatsu, Allison Transmission, Unipres, NSK ABC, Mega Tech, Delphi TVS, Seco Komos, Momentive, Johnson Lifts, JCBL Marbles, GKN Driveline and Tenneco.

Besides the SIPCOT zone, industrial units proliferate in other parts of Oragadam too.

“Three lakh people are expected to work in the industrial units at Oragadam in three years' time,” says P. Suresh, managing director, Arun Excello.

Expecting the demand for housing to go up, builders are making a beeline to this suburb, located south-west of Chennai.

A sign of this growing interest is three humungous townships. Hirco Palace Gardens is set on 369 acres of land, with 10,000 dwelling units planned. The first phase of this massive project is almost complete.

The Inno Group has announced Inno GeoCity, which offers 4,000 houses (independent and semi-independent) in an 131-acre township. Temple Green Heights, a 100-acre township by Arun Excello, will provide 2,600 houses.

Collectively, these three projects are aimed at the working population. The projects fit into a broad category; they have something for every purse. With flats offered at Rs. 3,400 per sq.ft., Hirco's township falls in the premium segment. It is clearly aimed at the middle-level to the top executive. With basic prices of Rs. 2,399 per sq.ft and Rs. 1,750 per sq.ft., Temple Green Heights and Inno GeoCity fit into the definition of affordable housing.

The social infrastructural facilities offered by these projects include schools and health care facilities. End users form a majority of buyers in these projects. Builders says buyers' decision has been motivated by the obvious advantages of living close to their workplaces and having a diversity of social infrastructure within easy reach. And, the charm of living in less crowded suburbs.

“As Oragadam is connected by a matrix of wide roads to other happening towns, residents have easy access to facilities that lie beyond. For example, residents of Oragadam can draw on the resources in Sriperumbudur, which has many educational institutions,” says Kalyan Jayaprakash, director, Inno GeoCity.

Four-lane and six-lane State Highways provide multiple entry points to Oragadam via flourishing towns (Padappai, Sriperumbudur, Walajahbad and Singaperumal Koil).

In industrial circles, Sriperumbudur and Oragadam are spoken of as twin towns. Together, these two towns account for an FDI of $16 billion.

Some believe Oragadam is poised to become an industrial superpower in that area. “Being connected to Oragadam will be the prime driver of development in many of the neighbouring areas. Oragadam will become the central point of a massive industrial revolution. It will impact development of areas within a 15 to 20 km radius,” says V. Suresh, principal executive officer, Hirco. “Oragadam shall be the catalyst of growth in the region.”

Delphi's Oragadam plant, which has been discussed in the past(post number 132,........) is finally going to take off. The plans for the plant have been finalised by the firm. Insiders say that it should be completed by mid 2011. Source - adhuthan already sollitene - "insiders say"

Arun Excello site between Apollo tyres and Vallakottai
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Residential Project near sriperumbudur Tollboth
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Opposite to apollo tyres ..there is a large vacant land ... Which if am not wrong will have dailmer factory ..and today i saw many cars and ppl analysing something in that land.. may be they have started planning for construction :)


And for all those who are looking for Engineer Trainee Job

Apollo tyres - Construction going on in full swing ... Production in 3 months .. recruitment too

Renault-Nissan - Now hiring Diploma and ITI ..

Motherson sumi ,Magal tech,Komatsu - no openings now for b.e freshers :nuts:

And in Sriperumbudur Sipcot

Borgwarner, Korean Fuel tech - No openings now

Hinduja Foundaries , Eta Engg - recruiting only ITI now :ohno:

Asian Paints , nippon paints , couple of thermal companies ... - security personnel recieved my resume and promised to deliver to HR dept :lol:


But one thing most of the company buildings were impressive :rock::rock:Both building design and Entrance design ... :lol:Esp Apollo tyres was entrance was looking great .. [sorry security din allow me to take a shot]

Darkprinz, I wish you all the best. Like you guys pushing ahead. Your effort will be fruitful.

Leo Thanks brother ... :) thought it will be helpful to other jobseekers too

^^ careful when u take pictures ..seems like u r taking pic of that girl :lol: .. any way thanks for those updates.

:lol:^^ vijay thanks for the tip

:lol:^^ vijay thanks for the tip

Hey, Rather than passing through Security personnel, applying through the jobsites have more probabality.....That too apply across India and don't restrict to south only...In my time, Out of 60 L&T campus placements from my college, I am only one who got postings in Kutch/Gujarat.....Eventually got good exposures than my friends in TN....

^^ Times are changing my friend. Now Northies are coming to South to get jobs and as a by-product get exposure to what is happening outside of their territory.

^^ as we know home territory well already, going to any new location will give additional exposure other than work. so, both the above cases from GC/CI is true

Hey, Rather than passing through Security personnel, applying through the jobsites have more probabality.....That too apply across India and don't restrict to south only...In my time, Out of 60 L&T campus placements from my college, I am only one who got postings in Kutch/Gujarat.....Eventually got good exposures than my friends in TN....

Great chennai , i dont have problem in working anywhere in india ...:) infact i like field work more than office work ...

And i have already applied in most jobsites ... am mostly getting only call centre offers through these jobsites :nuts::ohno: being a mechanical engineer what is using these jobs ! :lol:

And i have applied to almost 200 odd companies small to big .. to their career mail id... :lol:and this security personnel approach is my new experimental adventure :) Waiting

You can also try this, first say you will work for three months without pay and prove yourself then if they are interested you can negotiate and join them to get a good opportunity.

Anyhow goodluck.

^^ Times are changing my friend. Now Northies are coming to South to get jobs and as a by-product get exposure to what is happening outside of their territory.

yeah right. the americans say the same about indians:bash:

^^ What's ur point? :?

Samsung aims to consolidate share in flat panel TV market (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/cons-products/electronics/Samsung-aims-to-consolidate-share-in-flat-panel-TV-market/articleshow/6214493.cms)
25 Jul 2010, 1512 hrs IST,AGENCIES

NEW DELHI: Aiming to strengthen its foothold in the domestic television market, consumer durables major Samsung today said that it will double its market share this year by selling 1.2 million units of flat panels. "Our panel business is the major growth driver and we are looking at almost 1.2 million panel business this year. We will be almost doubling the market share this year to nearly 40 per cent," Samsung India Electronics Deputy Managing Director Ravinder Zutshi told PTI.

He said the market size for such products is estimated to be around 3 million units annually.

"We are currently the market leader in flat panel TVs in India, and have been consistently so in the past two years," Zutshi said. Samsung's nearest competitor is Sony, followed by LG, in the flat panel television segment. The company aims to sell 2,00,000 units of LED TVs and 30,000 units of 3D TVs during this year.

Commenting on the overall product launch plans of the company, Zutshi said: "Every year, we launch over 200 products across all categories. This year also, it will be over 200." The company is present in the country across various segments, including consumer electronics, IT and mobile handsets. It has facilities in different locations, including Noida and Chennai.

Stating that India can be a global sourcing destination for Samsung, he said, "We will probably use the Chennai factory for the purpose."

The plant manufactures front-loading washing machine, LCD and LED TVs, and air-conditioners.

Foxconn India gets clean chit on workers’ sickness (http://www.sindhtoday.net/news/2/161239.htm)
July 26th, 2010 SindhToday

Chennai, July 26 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) Monday gave a clean chit to mobile phone accessory maker Foxconn India saying no gas or chemical were being used at the first floor of its unit where some workers complained of nausea Friday.
In a statement issued here, the TNPCB said the workers fell sick on the first floor of the Sunguvarchatram plant after inhaling a strong pesticide odour.
“Foxconn India’s plant at Sunguvarchatram has been licensed to operate till March 30, 2012. Around 4 p.m., on July 23 four workers vomited and fainted. They were taken to the hospital and sent home.”
According to the TNPCB, while work at the Sunguvarchatram plant around 50 km from here was stopped workers were sent to the company’s main plant at Nokia Special Economic Zone at Sriperumbudur.
On July 24, around 10 workers who were shifted to the company’s main plant the previous day fainted. While four were treated at Jaya hospital at Sriperumbudur, six were taken to Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre.
However, the statement is silent on the kind of tests the TNPCB conducted to arrive at this conclusion.
Speaking to IANS, C.V.M.P. Ezhilarasan, president, Foxconn India Thozilalar Munnetra Sangam, said: “Around 12 workers are still in Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre and five of them may be discharged Tuesday as per indications given by the doctors there.”
He said Labour Minister T.M. Anbarasan visited the workers at the hospital Monday and enquired about their health.
According to Ezhilarasan, the Suguvarchatram plant has to be inspected by experts to find the exact cause of the workers falling sick.
Police officials at Sunguvarchatram told IANS that the two arrested plant officials were released on bail.
The First Information Report (FIR) said it was a case of negligence, a bailable offence.
Top officials of Foxconn India were not immediately available for comment.

SOURCE: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/08/23/stories/2010082350240500.htm (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/08/23/stories/2010082350240500.htm)

India has been experiencing significant development over the last decade, continuously clocking a growth rate of around 8-10 per cent. Logistics costs in India are high at 13-14 per cent of GDP compared to 8-9 per cent for developed countries.

The Government has been promoting the logistics sector by allowing 100 per cent FDI, eliminating CST, introducing VAT, improving multi-modal transportation through projects such as dedicated freight corridor, encouraging public private partnership (PPP), and allowing 100 per cent income-tax exemption for port development projects.

Several logistics parks have come up across major cities such as Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad and are witnessing significant investment in infrastructure. Of these, Chennai clearly is a major logistics hub, and has been attracting huge investments.

CONNECTIVITY BENEFITS

Oragadam, being close to Chennai, is one of the fastest growing industrial towns. It owes its strategic advantage to a large manufacturing presence, demand base, supplier presence, established infrastructure and excellent multi-modal connectivity.

It is connected through major roads such as Oragadam Industrial Corridor Road, East Coast Road, NH-44, NH-45, outer ring road passing through it along with access to the major sea port (Chennai port), railway station (Chennai Central) and an International airport within 25 km. NH-4 provides great connectivity to Bengaluru through the upcoming Ranipet-Walajabad 200 ft road and to major western (Mumbai) and northern cities.

Currently, freight from the west and north gets warehoused in Poonamallee. However, with the emergence of Oragadam as a hub, modern logistic parks in this area are going to provide stiff competition to Poonamallee's existing warehouses. In addition Oragadam, is connected to Kolkota (NH 5) through the ring road. NH 45 provides great hinterland connectivity to major cities in south India such as Tiruchi, Madurai, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari.

AUTO, FMCG HUB

Oragadam, has seen some major investments by large Indian and global players (automotive, FMCG/durables, and industrial products) during the last few years due to a special boost provided by the Tamil Nadu government and establishment of the SIPCOT Industrial Estate covering approximately 2,000 acres. Across the automotive industry, Oragadam represents an excellent hub for manufacturing and distribution, as more than six automotive OEMs and over 50 suppliers are located in close proximity (less than 20 km) of each other in the Oragadam-Sripeumbudur cluster. This would enable supply of domestic and imported parts in a just-in-time approach. Automotive components and sub-assemblies can be shipped from various parts of India and from ports (for imports) to logistics hubs, then assembled and supplied just-in-time to the OEM for assembly.

It has reputed companies such as Nissan-Renault, Mercedes, Daimler, Delphi-TVS, Komatsu, GKN Driveline, Apollo tyres, Sundaram Auto Components Ltd., to name a few. Renault Nissan has set-up a car-making 640 acres facility near Oragadam with a planned investment of Rs 4,500 crore and full ramp-up capacity of 400,000 units per year.

Oragadam, could be a regional manufacturing and distribution point for FMCG products such as biscuits, chips, juices, personal care products, household hygiene products etc. and consumer durable products such as fridge, microwave, TV and air conditioners.

Nokia Siemens Networks recently commenced the manufacturing of 3G products locally at its Oragadam facility and announced investments amounting to Rs 110 crore over the next two years. Sanmina-SCI Corporation, a leading global electronics manufacturing services (EMS), set up a state-of-the-art technology manufacturing campus in the Oragadam Hi-Tech Special Economic Zone (SEZ).

In addition, Oragadam has the advantage of being close to Sriperumbudur, which is home to large manufacturing companies such as Hyundai, Ford, Saint Gobain, Nokia, Dell, Flextronics and Samsung. A six-lane highway road (SH57) is being constructed to connect these twin towns.

Indian logistics players such as DHL, Realtime Logistics, ShriKailash Logistics plan to set up their respective logistics hubs in this region.

:cheers:

SOURCE: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/08/23/stories/2010082350250500.htm (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/08/23/stories/2010082350250500.htm)

The Kochi-based Sree Kailas Group, which is a Rs 300-crore business conglomerate, has grabbed the unfolding opportunities in the logistics segment by launching its end-to-end, integrated, hi-tech, world-class logistics park, Logicity, at Oragadam on the outskirts of Chennai.

The group's ambitious foray assumes importance in the backdrop of the Indian logistics industry emerging as a stand-alone business segment offering enormous opportunities.

The first phase of the project, conceived with a financial outlay of Rs 120 crore on a 30-acre sprawling land, is expected to be complete by March 2011.

“We've designed Logicity as a matchless entity. And, in due course, our ambition is to become India's No 1 player in the logistics industry,” said Mr S. Rajkumar, Director, Sree Kailas Logistics Ltd. The group has a track record of high growth over 27 years.

“Today, the group has one division which handles paper manufacturing, paper conversion and waste paper, another that takes care of transportation and logistics while a third division deals with construction and real estate,” he said.

Recent surveys reveal that countries with weak global logistics links would face growing costs of exclusion from international trade. Experts who tout India as a land of opportunity have predicted a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7-8 per cent for Indian logistics market, valued at $141 billion a few years ago.

Added to this is the retail boom in the economy, with innumerable multinationals (MNCs) flocking to Indian shores and local retailers expanding their operations into smaller cities.

“Exciting things are happening in the logistics segment. It is the right time to be in logistics. If you can deliver the right product or service in the right condition at the right time and place at a right cost, there's nothing like it. And, we're determined to create a new benchmark in this field,” Mr Rajkumar said, justifying the launch of the project.

GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE

The group has rightly chosen Oragadam to base its logistics venture. The location is fast emerging as the biggest industrial logistics hub in Tamil Nadu.

As for Logicity, he says, the facility would benefit a large number of third-party logistics (3PL) players, manufactures and C&F agents.

According to Mr Rajkumar, Logicity will have a land area of seven lakh sq.ft for warehousing and three lakh sq.ft for container freight stations (CFS). In addition to this is a five-acre area that would be used as an open container yard.

“Logicity will also have five warehouses in the built-to-suit (BTS) category to cater to the requirements of diverse industries such as auto, commodities, FMCG, textiles and the sort,” he added.

Facilities

Logicity — which has been conceptualised and designed in conjunction with BPS Global, a pioneer in the area of international infrastructure consultancy — will have elaborate facilities for smooth business transaction.

The facilities would include spacious infrastructure for easy diagonal movement of 40-ft containers, truck parking bays, information kiosk and helpdesk, CCTV cameras for enhanced security, presence of national transporters and clearing agents, mobile communications tower, cafeteria, boarding, recreational area, first-aid clinic, ATM and banking services, a dedicated parking lot, secondary transport from warehouse to destination, hiring pallet trucks and fork-lifts, and loading and unloading equipment.

“We're certain that we can meet the tailor-made needs of our valued customers by offering the best in the industry. And, yes, we've the early bird advantage,” says Mr Rajkumar, who does not rule out setting up yet another similar facility at an “appropriate time and an appropriate location”.

Foxconn India gets clean chit on workers’ sickness (http://www.sindhtoday.net/news/2/161239.htm)
July 26th, 2010 SindhToday
great news

Hi could any one list me out the upcoming or existing project's name at Oragadam??????????

Thanks,
Asar

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Mobile-companies-find-the-right-connection-in-Chennai-/articleshow/6435165.cms

CHENNAI: They've always been fierce rivals but when it comes to business and industrialisation, the DMK and AIADMK chiefs have let political bickering and sniping take a backseat. DMK's Dayanidhi Maran, then union minister for communications and IT, and AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa appeared to bury the hatchet in 2005 when Maran hard sold the state as a viable destination to mobile phone manufacturers.

Jayalalithaa was then able to announce that Nokia would be setting up a manufacturing plant in Sriperumbudur, a development that laid the foundation for the growth of electronics manufacturing services (EMS) in the state.

When Nokia chose Chennai, company president Pekka Ala Pietila said, "Establishing a new factory in India is an important step in the continuous development of our global manufacturing network. We selected Chennai as the location for the factory thanks to the availability of skilled labour, friendly business environment, support from the state government, good logistics connections and overall cost-efficiency."

A few years into production, Nokia conducted a study and found Chennai to be 11% cheaper than China. Enthused by its success, Nokia went on to establish two more plants between 2007 and 2009. Over the years, the company has invested about Rs 1,350 crore in Chennai, twice its planned investment of Rs 675 crore. Nokia's plant in Chennai is now the world's largest mobile handset manufacturing factory.

The Finnish company was soon followed by other global EMS players like Motorola, Foxconn, Flextronics and BYD, among others, making Sriperumbudur India's largest electronics cluster.

At zero customs duty, one would expect all the mobile handsets sold in the country to be those imported from China and Taiwan. "We chose to manufacture phones here rather than import them because of high quality, low cost manpower. People travel about 80km a day to work in our plants and the results are worthy of mention," a Foxconn official said.

The total investment in the electronics hardware industry is estimated to be Rs 12,000 crore and the sector employs about 40,000 workers. The societal impact has been visible. Nokia started operations with 550 employees in January 2006 and today has over 8,000 employees, 70 % of whom are women. Recruitment for the factory, including candidates from Kancheepuram, commenced in 2005, just before the factory became operational. Today, a person with a higher secondary school education earns Rs 4,400 a month. The perks include free pick-up and drop, snacks and lunch. "These people would have been struggling to earn Rs 3,000 a month, had it not been for the mobile phone manufacturing companies," government officials said.

Experts believe that there is scope for further growth. "At present, import of electronic components constitutes 80% to 85%. There still exists excellent potential for import substitution to supply to Nokia, Dell, Sanmina and others," said M Velmurugan, vice chairman, guidance bureau, TN industries department. Clearly, Chennai has only touched the tip of the iceberg.

Sanmina faces CITU’s strike
Rajesh Chandramouli | TNN

Chennai: The Confederation of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), the labour arm of the Marxist Party, has served a notice for strike at the factory of Sanmina SCI, an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) firm in Oragadam, near Chennai.
A Soundararajan, CITU’s Tamil Nadu state general secretary, said that the notice was served on the management couple of days ago. “Our charter of demands includes wage revision, canteen facilities and basic workers’ needs. As per the terms of notice, we can go on strike anytime after September 3,” he said. Sanmina management has refused to recognise any trade union.
“We have not received any official communication from them about a strike. We do not recognise any union as we have a number of committees to deal with various issues from safety and transportation to canteen facilities for employees. Our engagement with them is fair and we have open communication with them,” said a senior Sanmina official.
NASDAQ-listed Sanmina SCI Corporation, is a leading global EMS company, and its factory in Oragadam Hi-Tech SEZ was inaugurated in March.
Few days ago when CITU hoisted its flag outside Sanmina’s facility, state government arm SIPCOT removed it forthwith. “When we erected our flag, the government agency removed it. All government agencies are working towards ensuring DMK government’s trade union wing – b– to be the official union in factories. But, workers of these factories prefer us,” Soundararajan said.
Sanmina has more than 1,300 full-time employees. “People are happy here as is evident from the low attrition rate. But in the same breath, I do not rule out any disturbances in the future but I hope we will be able to resolve them when they come up,” an official said.
In an another development, CITU formed a trade union in handset maker Foxconn. “Even though LPF is gaining management recognition, workers are backing our union. We have therefore formed a parallel union alongside LPF,” Soundararajan said.
Trade union movement in the Sriperumbudur industrial corridor has created ruffles in the past few months. Foreign firms like Hyundai, Nokia, Foxconn and few component suppliers to these companies have seen formation of trade unions.

^^Very encouraging news:ohno:

http://picasaweb.google.com/balajispillai/Developments_ActivitiesInAndAroundORAGDAM#slideshow/5370916157361203266

Nice pictures. Thanks for the link Satish

The Forum will appreciate your effort and fine presentation. In January 2010, I drove along the entire stretch of the road. Bulk of the work was road formation with earth work and it was vastly voluminous. Progress in 7 months is beyond belief. The capability of TN is coming into full bloom. More and more presentations of the largest and the best will reinforce faith in the future. Thanks again.

Now that we are in good position at attracting investments in sriperumbudur and oragadam... Y not take next preliminary steps
1. Promoting sriperumbudur and oragadam belt as a brand , even with non-investers n common ppl...
2. Hospitality development .. More hotels for investors .. Both high class n mid range
3. Create a link between industry-institution cell (already exist in some colleges) and govt. Make industrial tour possible for students from neighbouring countries n india..word of mouth will spread...
4. A conv. Centre n proper big single n attractive sipcot office complex for sri-irungattukotai-sunguvarchathiram-oragadam .. Arrange auto-electronics seminars n research fest in association with colleges in that belt ..
5.Before all they should improve roads n transportation facilities inside sipcots ..not the mucky one ...
metro system for the belt main carraige with monorail connecting insides of sipcot would be nice ...
7.Make sriperumbudur or oragadam mtc depot ...

sorry for being offtopic ..For ppl with whom i discussed about my job in this thread then .. I wanted to happily inform u that am now placed as Graduate Trainee in Bosch , Bangalore ... :)

Great Congrats.
But don't forget Chennai.

Best wishes for a rewarding career. Your suggestions at #360 are worthy to be followed up. Hope you will have a long association with the Forum.

@darkprinz - congrats!! :applause: All the best for a wonderful career!!

Congrats darkprinz. Thanks for all the video updates. Do well.

Congrats darkprinz, Wish you could be at Chennai

Thank you so much friends :) Am still a chennai ite .. After training will return here ... Cheers and Thanks again

What brand name would u think will be better for Sriperumbudur-Oragadam-Irungatukottai belt ???


My choice would be "Fuzzy wheels" ..The whole area from irungatukotai to oragadam can be named such and publicized :)

sorry for being offtopic ..For ppl with whom i discussed about my job in this thread then .. I wanted to happily inform u that am now placed as Graduate Trainee in Bosch , Bangalore ... :)

Congrats! darkprinz, wishing you a great career.

Congrats darkprinz...do well...and pls continue contributing to this thread....

sorry for being offtopic ..For ppl with whom i discussed about my job in this thread then .. I wanted to happily inform u that am now placed as Graduate Trainee in Bosch , Bangalore ... :)

Very happy to hear that. Please come back to chennai ASAP for people like me who are not in chennai, we see chennai in ur videos only.

Thanks for all the videos. Keep up the good work and have a rocking career.

^^ Congrats darkprinz. Welcome to bangalore, and yes, Chennai will miss your updates.

Thank u brothers for so much love :) i will still be a part of Chennai forum :)

this is not a social forum for personal issues
if you want to wish darkprinz send him a personal wishes than posing through thread

this is not a social forum for personal issues
if you want to wish darkprinz send him a personal wishes than posing through thread

If you dont have anything to contribute and no heart to appreciate pls. be quite... Darkprinz contribution is great in this chennai thread

this is not a social forum for personal issues
if you want to wish darkprinz send him a personal wishes than posing through thread

Sorry for off topic .. :) continue topic discussion

sorry for being offtopic ..For ppl with whom i discussed about my job in this thread then .. I wanted to happily inform u that am now placed as Graduate Trainee in Bosch , Bangalore ... :)

Hey congrats man. Looks like we've got some kind of a jinx. To all, I got placed in L&T Powai as Graduate Engineer Trainee. :)

sorry for being offtopic ..For ppl with whom i discussed about my job in this thread then .. I wanted to happily inform u that am now placed as Graduate Trainee in Bosch , Bangalore ... :)

Hello Darkprinz, my hearty wishes to you. Do well and all the very best buddy..

Regards, Balaji

this is not a social forum for personal issues
if you want to wish darkprinz send him a personal wishes than posing through thread

If i had been the moderator, i would have indeed banned you from this thread. I have seen darkprinz as one of the active member and a good contributor across threads. This young lad deserves a lot of appreciation by all...If you dont, no worries :bash::bash::bash:

If i had been the moderator, i would have indeed banned you from this thread. I have seen darkprinz as one of the active member and a good contributor across threads. This young lad deserves a lot of appreciation by all...If you dont, no worries :bash::bash::bash:

hahaha
seems darkprinz has lot of loyal fans
do not be emotional
what i said is you can visit his SSC profile and leave your wishes in his wall rather posing here.
i do not see any offence in my statement.

hahaha
seems darkprinz has lot of loyal fans
do not be emotional
what i said is you can visit his SSC profile and leave your wishes in his wall rather posing here.
i do not see any offence in my statement.

I agree with you.

Shall we create a seperate thread for personal topics like - I got a girl friend, I got promotion, I got US visa etc ;)

I agree with you.

Shall we create a seperate thread for personal topics like - I got a girl friend, I got promotion, I got US visa etc ;)

Good idea indeed:cheers:

Here is an article appearing in today's THE HINDU (dt. Sept. 13, 2010):

http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/article627514.ece

This article is about Pune and how it has emerged as a automobile powerhouse and how it has become the "Detroit of India".

My reason for posting it is to point out how Media uses such sobriquets like "Detroit of India" loosely and can use it to describe one city today and another one tomorrow. I remember some earlier discussions and articles about Chennai being called "Detroit of Asia" etc. by some of the media.

These terms do not really matter, especially when used by the Media. Reality is reality and each city has its own good things. My only point is that tomorrow if Chennai is being called something else, let us not read too much into it. These terms have become cliche.

LET US NOT START ANOTHER CITY COMPARISON BECAUSE OF THIS ARTICLE.

^^ Chennai is way ahead of Pune in terms of automobile industries. And you are right, the Detroit appellation is of no importance.

NEW DELHI: Auto-component manufacturer Steel Strips Wheels Ltd (SSWL) Monday said that it is increasing the capacity of its plant at Oragadam near Chennai by four million wheel rims at a cost of Rs.60 crore.

According to the company, the step is in line to cater the growin demand in the domestic and export markets. The expansion would be complete by 2011.

The company also said that it has bagged an order for 4,000 automotive steel wheels by a company based in Germany.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/auto/auto-components/Steel-Strips-Wheels-to-expand-capacity/articleshow/6547255.cms

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/ipos/fpos/rights-issues/Micromax-goes-public-plans-to-raise-426-crore/articleshow/6688316.cms



The company said it would use about 50% of the IPO proceeds ( 225 crore) for setting up a handset manufacturing plant, preferably in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, while about 125 crore would be used for marketing and advertising for its brand over the next two years and 75 crore towards investment in acquisitions and other strategic initiatives. :banana: :banana: :banana:

Guys any update on Signet-Solar Photovoltaic Project.

http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/concor-to-approach-sez-panel-for-land/217629.html

CHENNAI: Container Corporation of India Ltd (CONCOR), functioning under the aegis of the Ministry of Railways, will approach the special economic zone committee seeking land to set up a multi-model logistics park at the hi-tech SEZ in Sriperumpudur — a first-of-its kind facility in South India.

Briefing media at the annual award function of CONCOR southern region here on Saturday, Anil K Gupta, MD, said 50 acres of land would be required for setting up the logistics park. “Industries situated in the SEZ can utilise the facility for transporting goods from one part of the nation to another. Initially, road links will be used for moving goods from Sriperumpudur to the railway station and a rail link will directly extend to the SEZ,” he added.

Ajith Kumar Patnaik, chief operations manager, Southern Railways, said steps were afoot to make the Attipattu and Chennai Beach Road four-laned

Do any one here know what is the prupose of big office of Diamler - nearly two floors functioning in RMZ millenia @ Perungudi. I know they are going to start up Diamler commercial financing in the building but what is the existing one...?? what are they doing. Is it R & d,

While all automibile / mobile companies manufacturing are coming to chennai why not R & D? Merc has a R & D center in Bang..all the other mobile players also have R & d there. Sony ericsson was here but they closed. Finally Micromax...are they planning any R & D , if so where.

HTC : has build a HTC tower near guindy station, what is going to come in there. When is it going to start fucntioning...??? Any idea.

Do any one here know what is the prupose of big office of Diamler - nearly two floors functioning in RMZ millenia @ Perungudi. I know they are going to start up Diamler commercial financing in the building but what is the existing one...?? what are they doing. Is it R & d,

While all automibile / mobile companies manufacturing are coming to chennai why not R & D? Merc has a R & D center in Bang..all the other mobile players also have R & d there. Sony ericsson was here but they closed. Finally Micromax...are they planning any R & D , if so where.

HTC : has build a HTC tower near guindy station, what is going to come in there. When is it going to start fucntioning...??? Any idea.

As per news report earlier, Daimler plans to have an integrated R and D center at their Orgadam facility.

..

Venture with Nissan

Mr. Hinduja was confident that Ashok Leyland and its joint venture partner Nissan would have no difficulty in taking on the competition in the LCV (light commercial vehicle) segment in India. “We will start rolling out our products from our Hosur plant initially (expected in May 2011). Based on demand/volume growth, the company will set up a greenfield project,” he added. Mr. Seshasayee said there had been some delay in acquiring the land due to litigations. ``We expect to possess the land at Oragadam (near Chennai) shortly. The volume growth will really dictate the speeding up of our greenfield project," he added.

..

More: http://www.hindu.com/2010/10/25/stories/2010102557711700.htm

As per news report earlier, Daimler plans to have an integrated R and D center at their Orgadam facility.

May be, but I saw a two floor huge Diamler office functional at RMZ Millenia.

HTC : has build a HTC tower near guindy station, what is going to come in there. When is it going to start fucntioning...??? Any idea.

That HTC is not the same as the mobile phone manufacturer..

The HTC Tower in Guindy is for "HTC Global Services" - an IT and BPO company.

It is time for some construction conglomerate to announce a satellite city for the Sriperumbudur - Oragadam belt. This places is going to be epicentre of Indian manufacturing in another 10 years. This is essential as more and more people are slowly but surely moving to that area. Importance must be given to schools, hospitals, malls etc.

What is the progress on the 6 lane criss cross highway on this area. ?. Is there any visible improvement.

That HTC is not the same as the mobile phone manufacturer..

The HTC Tower in Guindy is for "HTC Global Services" - an IT and BPO company.

So you mean to Says these are two different companies all together. This HTC is not the mobile manufacturer.

^^

HTC Global Services - IT BPO
www.htcglobal.com

HTC Global Services Inc is a global provider of IT Solutions and Business Process Outsourcing services.

-----

HTC Corp - Mobile Manufacturer
www.htc.com

HTC Corp, produces powerful handsets that continually push the boundaries of innovation to provide true mobile freedom.

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt Ltd, which will start selling heavy duty trucks in India from mid-2012, intends to unveil a new brand and a corporate logo in February, the company's Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mr Marc Llistosella, told Business Line.

However, that is all he could say on the subject at this point in time.

Although Daimler is a known name in the automotive industry, the company intends to start-off a major branding exercise, which will reflect the Indian-nature of the commercial vehicles the company would produce at its upcoming plant at Oragadam, near Chennai.

Indian it will be, says Mr Llistosella, for the vehicles would have 85 per cent of components (by value) procured from within the country's shores. Daimler has signed up with about 250 vendors in India, half of whom will be located within 50 km of the plant.

“We are not very much vertically integrated,” Mr Llistosella said, noting that only between 12 and 16 per cent of the production value would be produced by Daimler India in-house.

“Check out our competitors, they are between 22 and 28 per cent in-house.”

Full range on offer

At Daimler India's office in Chennai, 625 technical personnel are busy developing the products for India. Five per cent of them are non-Indians.

This is apart from workers and officials at the plant site and those at the research centre not far from the plant.

“So we are not offering off-the-shelf products,” stresses Mr Llistosella.

The products would be unveiled in the Delhi Auto Expo of January 2012 and sales would commence from June that year.

Daimler India will first bring in heavy commercial vehicles, 24 to 36 tonners first, though a range of medium duty trucks (starting from 6 tonnes) is pretty much on the cards. Below 6 tonnes? Not at the moment.

Within three years of the launch, Daimler India would have 16 to 18 products in the markets, launching a model every three months.
Not a niche player

Mr Llistosella scoffs at a suggestion that Daimler India, with its engineering-heavy German DNA, would be a high-value, niche player in the Indian market.

He was at pains to stress that except for the umbilical chord with the parent, Daimler India was an independent company, whose products for India, are also designed and made in India. As such, the trucks will be competitively priced.

“I will not say ‘this is German engineering, this is a big brand' so give me a premium price,” he says. Rather, the refrain would be: “How much money are you making with the competitor's truck? Show me the calculation and I will show that you can make more money with our product.”

Mr Llistosella said that Daimler might also produce buses, though the attention would remain on ‘goods' for some time to come.

Further, although the aim is to capture a share of the growing Indian market, Daimler India could also export.

He said that the Oragadam plant could also contract-manufacture for its German parent, but ruled out letting out the facilities to competitors.

Finance support

Commercial vehicles purchase is a finance-driven activity and would Daimler India have a captive finance company?

“It would be a reasonable and logical step, but the decision lies with Daimler, Germany,” Mr Llistosella said, adding that he had recommended the setting up of an in-house finance company.

Source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/10/28/stories/2010102852980200.htm

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt Ltd, which will start selling heavy duty trucks in India from mid-2012, intends to unveil a new brand and a corporate logo in February, the company's Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mr Marc Llistosella, told Business Line.

However, that is all he could say on the subject at this point in time.

Although Daimler is a known name in the automotive industry, the company intends to start-off a major branding exercise, which will reflect the Indian-nature of the commercial vehicles the company would produce at its upcoming plant at Oragadam, near Chennai.

Indian it will be, says Mr Llistosella, for the vehicles would have 85 per cent of components (by value) procured from within the country's shores. Daimler has signed up with about 250 vendors in India, half of whom will be located within 50 km of the plant.

“We are not very much vertically integrated,” Mr Llistosella said, noting that only between 12 and 16 per cent of the production value would be produced by Daimler India in-house.

“Check out our competitors, they are between 22 and 28 per cent in-house.”

Full range on offer

At Daimler India's office in Chennai, 625 technical personnel are busy developing the products for India. Five per cent of them are non-Indians.

This is apart from workers and officials at the plant site and those at the research centre not far from the plant.

“So we are not offering off-the-shelf products,” stresses Mr Llistosella.

The products would be unveiled in the Delhi Auto Expo of January 2012 and sales would commence from June that year.

Daimler India will first bring in heavy commercial vehicles, 24 to 36 tonners first, though a range of medium duty trucks (starting from 6 tonnes) is pretty much on the cards. Below 6 tonnes? Not at the moment.

Within three years of the launch, Daimler India would have 16 to 18 products in the markets, launching a model every three months.
Not a niche player

Mr Llistosella scoffs at a suggestion that Daimler India, with its engineering-heavy German DNA, would be a high-value, niche player in the Indian market.

He was at pains to stress that except for the umbilical chord with the parent, Daimler India was an independent company, whose products for India, are also designed and made in India. As such, the trucks will be competitively priced.

“I will not say ‘this is German engineering, this is a big brand' so give me a premium price,” he says. Rather, the refrain would be: “How much money are you making with the competitor's truck? Show me the calculation and I will show that you can make more money with our product.”

Mr Llistosella said that Daimler might also produce buses, though the attention would remain on ‘goods' for some time to come.

Further, although the aim is to capture a share of the growing Indian market, Daimler India could also export.

He said that the Oragadam plant could also contract-manufacture for its German parent, but ruled out letting out the facilities to competitors.

Finance support

Commercial vehicles purchase is a finance-driven activity and would Daimler India have a captive finance company?

“It would be a reasonable and logical step, but the decision lies with Daimler, Germany,” Mr Llistosella said, adding that he had recommended the setting up of an in-house finance company.

Source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/10/28/stories/2010102852980200.htm

This line strikes me that Daimler will atleast in near future will be a growing competitor for Ashok Leyland and TATA CVs ...:lol:

And why is that Auto expo is not held in Chennai ??????? OR have i missed one ??

The major Auto Expo is held biennially in New Delhi, but I think Chennai has a smaller version in CTC. I remember monkey1 posting some pictures.

But Chennai deserves a seperate Auto show !!!! Again we have problem in marketing ourselves ???

But Chennai deserves a seperate Auto show !!!! Again we have problem in marketing ourselves ???

Agreed, we do lack marketing ourselves. Not only marketing we do not utilise our available natural resources in a best way...one example is our beaches. If it has been in any other city they would have developed the shore line amazingly. We do not know how to paint a rosy picture to our city & market it. Like other cities whose exteriors look wonderful..though it is not so...

^^ Blame regional parties!?!

Beaches in Maharashtra,Karnataka,Kerala,AP,Orissa,Bengal are all looking amazingly wonderful!!!!????

Only TN is showing off a Blue picture..

Tamilians (elite)definitely have a Complex.Look at most things from a "Female" point of view.

Pl continue in Chennai discussions.

Beaches in Maharashtra,Karnataka,Kerala,AP,Orissa,Bengal are all looking amazingly wonderful!!!!????

Only TN is showing off a Blue picture..

Tamilians (elite)definitely have a Complex.Look at most things in a "Female" point of view.

This is our problem, we always have some lousy places as our bench mark and try to compare us with them. Why can't we keep Hongkong as bench mark and try to achieve beyond them.

Chennai being a metro city has lot of scope if entertainment facilties develop. We lack defintely on that. Maharastra if not all, - Mumbai coastline is amazing with nariman point, marine drive, gateway of India etc. Kerala back waters, boat house and resorts are well known. Not to mention goa beaches. But we should not have this as our bench mark.

What is there to be female & male point of veiw here.

Whether this has been posted already ???

TATA is also starting res. project in Oragadam

http://tatahousing.in/properties/crescent-lake-homes-chennai

Found this through google ads which is displayed in SSC page

How many projects totally in oragadam ???!!! all High Rise Res. Projects :banana::banana:

Whether this has been posted already ???

TATA is also starting res. project in Oragadam

http://tatahousing.in/properties/crescent-lake-homes-chennai

Found this through google ads which is displayed in SSC page

How many projects totally in oragadam ???!!! all High Rise Res. Projects :banana::banana:

I have the habit of counting floors.. All these towers have more than 30 floors :banana:

^^ Cool. Oragadam is going to be our new skyline is it ? Now we need wide and green roads to complement.

oh god...i hate skyscrapers...why is there a helipad in each and every building?

^^ You are in the wrong forum, bro. :)

eh..chennai's in the wrong forum....i just want chennai to have tiny tiny buildings just like switzerland and maybe clutter tall office skyscrapers as a cbd. Hope the building doesn't stand in the flightpath of the proposed airport.

^^ Cool. Oragadam is going to be our new skyline is it ? Now we need wide and green roads to complement.

When i went to Oragadam junction from SRI last july ... the road was widened to six or eight lane ( sorry forgot !) and laid neatly:banana:...Work was still going on that time ..:)

Had posted pics too here .. Wish some1 going that way now , could click some :)

eh..chennai's in the wrong forum....i just want chennai to have tiny tiny buildings just like switzerland and maybe clutter tall office skyscrapers as a cbd. Hope the building doesn't stand in the flightpath of the proposed airport.

As per rule after a certain number of floor (forgot how many) they must have a helipad in the top.... at least these guys following that.

Swiss type landed homes (villas) are also available in chennai, of course will be costly than flat system so more buyers will go for flat system .... so naturally the market will move towards that... can say its affordable than a landed home...whats wrong in that ??

^^ Switz residential areas are not recommended for a population dense city like ours. We have to go vertical.

oh god...i hate skyscrapers...why is there a helipad in each and every building?

Sigh..Chennai development should be vertical & not horizontal. In a congested city like Chennai, in order to have more open space sky scrappers have to be promoted..instead of accommodating 50 horizontal houses in a vast space without proper space & ventilation, it can be build vertically with 10/12 floors with reasonable open space & lot of trees surrounding it...which makes sense.

In Chennai especially most of the separate villas newly built in a separate land does not have open space at all...they build the house on the whole land with a car park & without a garden. What is the purpose of such a house...one ground of land improperly utlilised & wasted :nuts: We are not living in a scarcely populated country like sweden or denmark...

^^Though I'd love to see more high rises in Chennai, I wish the city also expands horizontally - this would mean more roads and building more infra. And any high rise will have to come up in OMR / Oragadam area so that they can plan the infra , parking facilities etc properly.

hmm....what you're all saying seems true...

@vijay: hi, can you tell me if grand sweets has opened in little india?

No news on electronic manufacturing front? nothing after foxconn dell and nokia
Is it happenign outside of chennai?

^^Though I'd love to see more high rises in Chennai, I wish the city also expands horizontally -

That would mean that it's a different city or town. If you are saying expand the city till western ghats to the west and kanyakumari in south I am with you :)

Foxconn wooed by AP,Gujarat amid TN mess

Rajesh Chandramouli | TNN

Chennai: When Gujarats additional chief secretary Ravi Saxena led a trade delegation in August to the Taiwan headquarters of telecom component maker Foxconn to seek investments,not many eyebrows were raised.However,it is increasingly apparent that labour unrest at Foxconns units near Chennai is prompting other states to pitch for the companys future investments in India.Later this week,senior Foxconn officials will meet Andhra Pradesh chief minister K Rosiah,although company officials were not willing to disclose the agenda for the talks.
We are in discussions with everybody from spinning mills in Coimbatore to MNCs.But our intention is not to take investments away from TN.We are only asking them to consider our state if they want to expand, said a Gujarat government official,on condition of anonymity.
Foxconn has three units in the Sriperumbudur-Sunguvarchatram belt on the outskirts of the city,which employ over 3,000 workers for assembling mobile phones.Recent attempts by labour unions to mobilise them have sparked off a series of agitations,which have resulted in intermittent shutdowns.Sources said the company might consider a plan to take future investments outside Tamil Nadu.

CITU forms unions in Nokia,Asian Paints


The Confederation of Indian Trade Unions has successfully hoisted its red hammer and sickle flag outside the factories of Nokia Siemens Networks and Asian Paints in the Oragadam region.A Soundararajan,general secretary of the Tamil Nadu unit of CITU,told TOI on Monday that his union was awaiting the formal stamp of approval from the Nokia and Asian Paints managements.t P 16

Thanks to CITU and DMK pro labor unions for driving away investments to AP and Gujarat!

That would mean that it's a different city or town. If you are saying expand the city till western ghats to the west and kanyakumari in south I am with you :)
Then, it no longer will be a CITY :)

Thanks to CITU and DMK pro labor unions for driving away investments to AP and Gujarat!
Don't read too much to these kinda news. Haven't we taken the advantage of Banglore Blasts and Telungana agitation to market TN, though it hasn't worked out much? It is all competition mixed with dirty political gimmicks to produce numbers on table. The problem was with the company as well.

Don't read too much to these kinda news. Haven't we taken the advantage of Banglore Blasts and Telungana agitation to market TN, though it hasn't worked out much? It is all competition mixed with dirty political gimmicks to produce numbers on table. The problem was with the company as well.

There was no impact of both the incidents that u have quoted. Bangalore stepped up the security measures and there was no investment going out of their state. hyderabad had stagnation for some time in investments coming in. But after a period of 2-3 months they have got more investments pouring in. the most startling thing was they got so many MNC's even after telangana issue. Linkedin,facebook,Google call centre(google already had an office there ) to name a few. we were never proactive in making use of the telangana situation. Atleast we could have had some IT parks in OMR filled in.

There was no impact of both the incidents that u have quoted. Bangalore stepped up the security measures and there was no investment going out of their state. hyderabad had stagnation for some time in investments coming in. But after a period of 2-3 months they have got more investments pouring in. the most startling thing was they got so many MNC's even after telangana issue. Linkedin,facebook,Google call centre(google already had an office there ) to name a few. we were never proactive in making use of the telangana situation. Atleast we could have had some IT parks in OMR filled in.
Really? Then you may have to wait for another 2-3months to know whether Guj has reaped benefit out of this and don't trigger your gun now. Once Telungana started and IT companies faced real lockout due to bandhs, immediate calls went to TN from these bigwigs. 2-3 months cannot be the deciding time. You may have to wait for the inflated telungana balloon to blast anytime soon.

Really? Then you may have to wait for another 2-3months to know whether Guj has reaped benefit out of this and don't trigger your gun now. Once Telungana started and IT companies faced real lockout due to bandhs, immediate calls went to TN from these bigwigs. 2-3 months cannot be the deciding time. You may have to wait for the inflated telungana balloon to blast anytime soon.

The visit of foxconn delegation itself is an indication that gujarat is going to reap benefits. we never had any delegation from AP or bangalore during their lean times.Anyways as u said we can wait for 3 more months and then we can accept that things r not as rosy as they were

Here in chennai, the ruling party itself is contributing to these chaos by forming trade unions and corner votes. The intention is clear, once investment is made, the head ache is on companies to take care of labor, infrastructure problems and govt will never get into problems. They talk only about labour rules, laws. In Hyundai itself i keep hearing the future investments going to either AP/Guj in this thread. So this is not just flash in the pan news!. I have been reading this news for a while in this thread for last 2/3 months.

^^
Gujarat is capable of wooing industries.TN should be careful and not be casual or complacent.If things continue the same way as it now then it is curtains for Sri-oragadam belt by this time next year.Gujarat has got far far coducive industrial climate than chennai/TN.:bash:

^^
Gujarat is capable of wooing industries.TN should be careful and not be casual or complacent.If things continue the same way as it now then it is curtains for Sri-oragadam belt by this time next year.Gujarat has got far far coducive industrial climate than chennai/TN.:bash:

TN Govt is never going realise, they are neither proactive nor intelligent enough to sense things & rectify...once all industries are out of TN/Chennai they will start again wooing investors from Gujarat & AP instead of Korea & Japan...:lol:

True. TN being complacent means we can only do this just when Bgl got choked in 2004 we got lot of IT when Guj. gets chocked in Ind. then TN can pull few.

Samsung to make India production hub
IANS, Nov 26, 2010, 08.02pm IST


Read more: Samsung to make India production hub - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/hardware/Samsung-to-make-India-production-hub/articleshow/6996244.cms#ixzz0iMuTW2Ff


CHENNAI: South Korean electronics major Samsung, which has announced Rs 350 crore fresh investments at its facility near here by 2016, is planning to make India its production hub for Middle East and other neighbouring markets in five years, a company official said.

Announcing commencement of Samsung's second refrigerator plant in India, J.S.Shin, president and CEO (South West Asia), told reporters: "All our future expansions will be at our Chennai plant. We will invest Rs.350 crore in Chennai plant and five years later, India may be the production hub for Middle East and other neighbouring markets."

Samsung's Indian subsidiary, Samsung India Electronics has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Tamil Nadu government to expand its facility located on 80 acres near here to make mobile phones and accessories, consumer electronics and information technology hardware.

Queried about the company's plans to develop a vendor base in the state, Samsung India's deputy managing director Ravinder Zutshi said efforts were on in this direction.

He said the percentage of local content in the company's products varies from product to product.

According to Shin, Samsung's Indian subsidiary contributes around 2.5 per cent of the company's global turnover and this is expected to double by 2013.

Samsung India posted revenue of $2.2 bn last year and this is expected to go up to $3.5 bn this calendar year. Samsung's global revenue is $116.8 bn.

In order to increase its business, Samsung India has decided to design products for the Indian market rather than customising products designed and made in South Korea for the domestic market.

The company has set up a five-member product innovation team at Delhi that will work on some product segments, an official told IANS while declining to comment on the products that Samsung India is planning to design and develop for the Indian market.

Samsung India will Saturday commission its $75 million refrigerator plant (1.2 million capacity per annum) at Sriperumbudur near here to make frost free (Inspira brand) and direct cool (Pride brand).

With the commissioning of the second plant, Samsung India's total refrigerator annual production capacity will go up to 2.6 million units.

According to Zutshi, the refrigerator business contributes around $500 million to revenues.

Samsung India also makes flat panel televisions, front loading washing machines, liquid crystal display (LCD) monitors and split air conditioners at its Sriperumbudur facility and refrigerators will get added to the list Saturday.

The company has invested in the plant over $100 million since 2007.
The company's other plant is located in Noida near Delhi making all the above products as well as mobile phones.

Read more: Samsung to make India production hub - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/hardware/Samsung-to-make-India-production-hub/articleshow/6996244.cms#ixzz0iMth9QvH

Good news after some time!!. We need to thank these Korean companies to make chennai as its base. Some of them feel second home.

http://www.hindu.com/2010/12/02/stories/2010120252911300.htm

MARG ProperTies, the real estate arm of MARG, has come up with a smart, affordable homes project, ‘Brindavan', located on the industrial belt between Sriperumbudur and Oragadam.

Addressing presspersons here on Wednesday, Oscar Braganza, Executive Director, (Real Estate & SEZ) MARG group, said the project would feature 14 blocks with 14 levels of 12 apartment units in each floor, making a total of 2,184 units at an introductory price of Rs. 1999 per sq. ft.

He said, Oragadam along with Sriperumbudur had seen major investments from leading multinational companies in recent times and the opportunities were immense and it was apt for the company to come up with a residential project around the area. The property will have 2 BHK (bedroom-hall-kitchen) apartments of 611 sq.ft, 613 sq.ft, 889 sq.ft. and 893 sq. ft. and 3 BHK apartments of 1054 sq. ft. each. The club house at this property will be a blend of convenience, essentials and entertainment and will have yoga centre, swimming pool, ladies/children swimming pool ,community hall, crèche, restaurant, indoor play area, game room, library and fitness centre. Outdoor amenities include 1.6 acres of community park. Basic amenities include a school, convenience shop, vegetable shop, ATM, poly clinic and ambulance. There will be multi-level car parking facilities to ensure sufficient parking space for the members of the complex.



Someone with sharp business acumen. These flats will actually be bought by end users unlike most other projects in Oragadam industrial belt which are mostly bought by speculators. I am sure these flats will sell like hot cakes. All the flats will be between 13 to 25 lacs. Kudos Marg.

Any news about the progress of Tata housing's Project in Oragadam? Is it worth investing considering the 'green' construction? Thanks for the feedback.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/12/15/stories/2010121553840100.htm

Our Bureau

New Delhi, Dec. 14

Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei Telecommunications on Tuesday announced an investment of $2 billion in India over the next five years.

The money will be used for four initiatives including establishing a new R&D campus in Bangalore and an equipment manufacturing facility at Sriperumbudur near Chennai.
Ramping up operations

In addition, Huawei will set up resource hubs for training engineers in multiple locations in India and also ramp up its local operations to meet the demand for third generation technology. These initiatives are expected to generate employment for 4,000-5,000 people over the next five years. The Chinese company currently has 6,000 employees in India.

Mr Max Yang, CEO, Huawei India, said, “Huawei has been in India for over a decade and is committed to a long-term development and cooperation in India. As an integral part of Indian telecom industry development and an active player serving all telecom service providers, Huawei India strives to be the long-term partner for the development of India's telecom and IT industry and inclusive growth.”

Currently, Huawei has 2,000 employees for R&D in India based out of multiple rented premises in Bangalore. All these facilities will be consolidated under the new unit to be set up across 100 acres in Whitefield, Bangalore. The new unit will have a seating capacity for up to 3,000 employees. This is already the biggest R&D centre for the company outside of China.

The manufacturing unit in Sriperumbudur will make network equipment primarily to meet demands from the growing Indian market but may also start exporting at a later stage. It has acquired 100 acres for the purpose.

Huawei has recently won contracts from as many five mobile operators to supply 3G gear, breaking into a market so far dominated by European vendors. RCom, Tata Teleservices, Airtel, Idea Cellular and Aircel have placed orders worth multi-billion dollars with the Chinese vendor.

Five-year plan

“The comprehensive five-year plan will focus on the development, augmentation and cooperation in the areas of local R&D, local manufacturing, technology cooperation with Indian IT service companies, local sourcing, local employment, talent development, and supporting rural education and IT literacy in India,” said a company statement.


The initiatives include further investments in developing key technical skills through Huawei's local training centres and joint R&D with local partners and leading Institutes in India, supporting 1,000 rural schools in e-connectivity and e-education and training of 1,000 IT rural teachers, among other CSR programmes.

The investment is an indication that issues related to security concerns around Chinese equipment have been to put to rest.



Finally some good news.... Seems Stalin magic is working....I hope we get more investments from Kia,LG soon.

The bad part in the above news is R&D facility is being expanded in Bangalore. I donno why they are not considering Chennai for that thing. Already Chennai has lot of R&D companies in Auto sector.

Be happy at least Manu. is coming here else it will go to places like Guj. considering the current labour problems.

The bad part in the above news is R&D facility is being expanded in Bangalore. I donno why they are not considering Chennai for that thing. Already Chennai has lot of R&D companies in Auto sector.

R&D will give jobs to 10 people whereas manufacturing will give jobs to 1000. What we need is to help the folks get a job and pull their families out of poverty...Multiplier effect is more in these cases..

R&D will give jobs to 10 people whereas manufacturing will give jobs to 1000. What we need is to help the folks get a job and pull their families out of poverty...Multiplier effect is more in these cases..

True, but these manufacturing stuff should go to secondary cities/towns.
High end jobs bring in well paid jobs and that creates a wealth affect and it trickles down to creating demand in luxury housing, goods, and their personal workers too like chauffeurs. Also it improves the image of the city.

^^ For your information, most of the top notch R & D companies (companies that spend heavily on R & D like GE, Lockheed Martin, Google, DOW Chemicals, Dupont, 3M or name any) never restrict themselves to bigger cities. Infact they never restrict to 1 city or 1 country. Heck they even operate out of the third-world:). Even rocket science is possible outside megapolis. NASA or ISRO have their R & D's out of so called megapolis:)

Just to give you few examples (These are the companies that spend huge amount in R & D as per Forbes in 2010)


Cincinnati is the core head quarters for Boeing R & D. And cinti is no NY or Urban california

GE does major R & D work again out of their Cincinnati and Albany centers

Auburn, MI is R & D headquarters for DOW chemicals

Toyota's US R&D work (majority of them) gets done @ Erlanger & Georgetown, KY locations. Yes KY is not just for horses, farmers, blue grass and fried chickens.

Heck Google, Apple & IBM even established their R & D centers out of their comfortable, cushionly silicon valley locations and got down to third world cities like Bangalore & Pune (Not to annoy folks from there, but just wanted to burst the arguement R & D is meant to be a megacity pride)
John Deere's R & D operates out of Moulin, IL about 3 hours south of Chicago.
Caterpillar have their R & D facility at Peoria a small town.




Just few samples, I could go on with the list. And again none of the major companies restrict themselves to the above-mentioned smaller cities too. But their headcount in small towns (specifically in R & D) is more than their head-count in megacities.

So come out of the notion that low end jobs are meant only for secondary towns.

Equal number of lower and higher wage employments are good for any city particularly any Indian city. R and D in Chennai is growing at a steady pace and I hope it improves. Once facilities in smaller towns and cost of living increases, industries will automatically go outwards.

For your satisfaction, Nissan has factories in Barcelona and Melbourne.
Ford at Melbourne, buenos aires; hyundai at beijing.

^^ True, there are manufacturing / low-end jobs at mega cities and hi-tech jobs at small towns everywhere. All these talk of reserving low end jobs exclusively to secondary cities and have just hifi jobs at cities are crap.

Cincinnati is the core head quarters for Boeing R & D. And cinti is no NY or Urban california

Chennai no Cincinnati, my friend.

^^ :lol:

Now it beats it your own logic isn't? You don't even consider Chennai on-par with a 2nd tier US city, but want more R & D (read more high level jobs) there, and move jobs that you consider inferior outside Chennai???

Just few samples, I could go on with the list. And again none of the major companies restrict themselves to the above-mentioned smaller cities too. But their headcount in small towns (specifically in R & D) is more than their head-count in megacities.

So come out of the notion that low end jobs are meant only for secondary towns.

Excellent and well said........... :)

^^ For your information, most of the top notch R & D companies (companies that spend heavily on R & D like GE, Lockheed Martin, Google, DOW Chemicals, Dupont, 3M or name any) never restrict themselves to bigger cities. Infact they never restrict to 1 city or 1 country. Heck they even operate out of the third-world:). Even rocket science is possible outside megapolis. NASA or ISRO have their R & D's out of so called megapolis:)

Just to give you few examples (These are the companies that spend huge amount in R & D as per Forbes in 2010)


Cincinnati is the core head quarters for Boeing R & D. And cinti is no NY or Urban california

GE does major R & D work again out of their Cincinnati and Albany centers

Auburn, MI is R & D headquarters for DOW chemicals

Toyota's US R&D work (majority of them) gets done @ Erlanger & Georgetown, KY locations. Yes KY is not just for horses, farmers, blue grass and fried chickens.

Heck Google, Apple & IBM even established their R & D centers out of their comfortable, cushionly silicon valley locations and got down to third world cities like Bangalore & Pune (Not to annoy folks from there, but just wanted to burst the arguement R & D is meant to be a megacity pride)
John Deere's R & D operates out of Moulin, IL about 3 hours south of Chicago.
Caterpillar have their R & D facility at Peoria a small town.




Just few samples, I could go on with the list. And again none of the major companies restrict themselves to the above-mentioned smaller cities too. But their headcount in small towns (specifically in R & D) is more than their head-count in megacities.

So come out of the notion that low end jobs are meant only for secondary towns.

Well said kongu !!! Add Stuttgart to the list .. its only 6th largest city in Germany .. but really great place for engineering !!!


But everyone needs to come out of the mirage that manufacturing is low end business :bash: :bash: it depends on where u observe it ..!!!( i mean the kind of company u take as example)

"It will be a feather in the cap. Alstom is a pioneer in this field and they have the technology for HSR's. The french TGV runs on their technology. Atleast this would trigger our Railways to go for HSR's and a good competition for the THAGARA DABBA makers ICF."

Good news indeed. I am not able to see any press release from Alstom website though.
Hoping to hear from Horse's mouth.

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I think Chennai is breaking this mould. The city seems to be balancing pretty well in both fields.Ofcourse the tilt is more on the manufacturing field but is catching up soon in R and D.

For any R & D centre to thrive, we need a constant supply of quality engineers / scientists. Industry Institution Interaction is the prime requirement.

Even Madras IIT (They do not call themselves Chennai IIT) is not at par with some of the leading Univs in USA or Germany with respect to this interaction.
Then we can imagine the status of other Govt and Private Univs.

During our campus interviews in Engg colleges, we observed that very few students wanted to take up R&D. Even the top rank students, who have interest want to go abroad and do R&D there (Quite OK - since the facilities can not be compared and the recognition there will be much better).

Unless the research students are paid at par with a good job in a private industry, we can not lure the best students to R&D here.

The quality of faculty is also an issue. Except IIT, no other institution can boast of many research scholars from accomplished univs abroad. Many students, who can not land on good jobs take up PG and PhD. Their commitment towards R&D is not there. Even some good faculty can make more money by tutoring than earning through industry sponsorship for research.

The atmosphere which we see in Bangalore & Pune seem much better for R&D. (I hope that we don't start Turf war here).

Many of the Engg colleges do not even have proper labs and workshops for UG courses. PhDs done in those colleges are more farce than real. They do not get published by reputed journals or Forums.

We will get what we deserve.

well said Kannan. I am struggling to do research as part of my Bachelor's thesis in my college. To get a small apparatus from the market it takes minimum a month to go through all the procedures and paper work (Invoice, Tender blah blah blah). And when I want to do real time experiments, the answer I get is " We don't have money to do experimental analysis and all". Such kind of a mentality is unheard of in the west. So from a person who wants to do research further, obviously the choice is the US or Germany. To put things into perspective the total annual research budget of my institution(NIT-T) is Rs. 15 crores. A single research project in Aerospace engineering department of UT-Austin is 50 million dollars. Where do you expect aspiring researchers to go?

$50 million may be contrasted with TN's colour TV budget of $500 million. Priorities are neatly in perspective.

well said Kannan. I am struggling to do research as part of my Bachelor's thesis in my college. To get a small apparatus from the market it takes minimum a month to go through all the procedures and paper work (Invoice, Tender blah blah blah). And when I want to do real time experiments, the answer I get is " We don't have money to do experimental analysis and all". Such kind of a mentality is unheard of in the west. So from a person who wants to do research further, obviously the choice is the US or Germany. To put things into perspective the total annual research budget of my institution(NIT-T) is Rs. 15 crores. A single research project in Aerospace engineering department of UT-Austin is 50 million dollars. Where do you expect aspiring researchers to go?

Include Japan too, there are many indians and srilankans coming here for research

Attitude, Environment and Viatmin M are vital for bringing R&D culture.

One of my cousin(Final Yr BE CS) requested me to suggest a technology for doing project. I suggested him to do it in Android(mobile operating system). I suggested this b'cos Gartner top ten technolgy for 2011 includes mobile and android being the fastest growing smartphone technology. But did not get approval- reason "you may copy the code from google" and when probed more we found the real reasons'

- College tied with a NIIT for project related training(15000 Rs for training-Way of making money)
- Else you can do project in Java or .Net or commonly used technology as a group.

She is really worried that if objected she may not get good marks in the projects and internal so She opted for the second option.

I have seen many buying projects just for the sake of completing the graduation. More number of .Net and Java projects are available in Internet compared to Android but cousin's second option of doing project in Java got approved. I really do not know how the Project in-charge being suspicious allowed a Java project if that is the genuine reason. Another shocking thing is that none of the lecturer's knew about Android.

With mushrooming colleges and university the quality has gone down and what we are producing is a mass number of low quality Engineers and the environment in these institutes makes them low in quality.

^^ She can still learn Android and code an Application which will be of Universal use on her own.Most successful Engineers are those who have that drive for self learning and burning desire to achieve something..

All others who think that a degree is more than enough to survive and be successful will be left behind.

You can find Engineers earning Rs 100,000 a year and Rs 100,000 per month after 6 years exp in IT field

Attitude, Environment and Viatmin M are vital for bringing R&D culture.

One of my cousin(Final Yr BE CS) requested me to suggest a technology for doing project. I suggested him to do it in Android(mobile operating system). I suggested this b'cos Gartner top ten technolgy for 2011 includes mobile and android being the fastest growing smartphone technology. But did not get approval- reason "you may copy the code from google" and when probed more we found the real reasons'

- College tied with a NIIT for project related training(15000 Rs for training-Way of making money)
- Else you can do project in Java or .Net or commonly used technology as a group.

She is really worried that if objected she may not get good marks in the projects and internal so She opted for the second option.

I have seen many buying projects just for the sake of completing the graduation. More number of .Net and Java projects are available in Internet compared to Android but cousin's second option of doing project in Java got approved. I really do not know how the Project in-charge being suspicious allowed a Java project if that is the genuine reason. Another shocking thing is that none of the lecturer's knew about Android.

With mushrooming colleges and university the quality has gone down and what we are producing is a mass number of low quality Engineers and the environment in these institutes makes them low in quality.

I would say that there is absolutely no use of doing a project when the professors don't even know about the subject matter. Try to do a great and relatively new project in the field that the proff. knows best. In good research oriented colleges around the world, each proff. would be researching around 4 projects at any point of time with phd students etc. working on it. Final year students are given lots of options based on these projects and can ask phd students for help, etc. Generally, these are projects that are entirely new and can't be found on the net though there may be some references. This is the problem I'm facing now. I can find almost nothing on the net for my final year project! But thankfully my phd. mentor and professor are great guys. I hope they replicate this kind of model in colleges in India.

Ok guys back on track. It has been out of topic for quite a while now.

well said Kannan. I am struggling to do research as part of my Bachelor's thesis in my college. To get a small apparatus from the market it takes minimum a month to go through all the procedures and paper work (Invoice, Tender blah blah blah). And when I want to do real time experiments, the answer I get is " We don't have money to do experimental analysis and all". Such kind of a mentality is unheard of in the west. So from a person who wants to do research further, obviously the choice is the US or Germany. To put things into perspective the total annual research budget of my institution(NIT-T) is Rs. 15 crores. A single research project in Aerospace engineering department of UT-Austin is 50 million dollars. Where do you expect aspiring researchers to go?

Please see the recent advt issued by DST, which is calling for projects to sponsor.

DHL Global Forwarding, the freight forwarding division of Deutsche Post DHL, inaugurated on Wednesday its first free trade zone (FTZ) in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai. This is also the country's second FTZ.

DHL has invested $10 million in the zone, the country's second FTZ, which will offer clients warehousing palletised, non-palletised, cold storage, odd dimension and handling of special/sensitive cargo.

A client can hold goods on behalf of foreign and Indian buyers and suppliers. Goods can also be procured from and sold to other special economic zones, export-oriented units and bonded warehouses. Direct delivery of containers from port without movement of container freight station is also permitted in the FTZ, said Mr Christoph Remund, Chief Executive Officer, DHL Forwarding.

To begin with, the zone will offer services to five sectors : retail; IT and telecom; engineering, manufacturing and automotive; life science and healthcare; and energy.

For instance, as value-added services for the life science and healthcare sector, it will offer cold storage facilities, with temperatures in three zones: 15-25 degree Celsius; 2-8 degree Celsius and -20 degree Celsius, he told newspersons.

In the next phase, DHL plans to construct its second FTZ in Mumbai and a third in Delhi before 2012 end, he said.

Mr Amadou Diallo, Chief Executive Officer, South Asia Pacific, DHL Global Forwarding, said the company would also look at the aerospace sector, especially with Chennai and its nearby regions to emerge as a major MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) region, he said.

Investments in India

DHL Forwarding has so far invested around ?300 million in India. In 2009, it handled 1.22 lakh tonnes of air shipment and 55,000 TEUs (20-foot equivalent units) of ocean freight.

It has around 15,000 customers in India, and some of them are located within the vicinity of the new facility, Mr Diallo said in a press meet last year without naming the clients.

The total logistics market in India earned revenue of $75.19 billion in 2009, representing 6.2 per cent of the country's GDP.

The market is expected to touch $120 billion in 2014, a 9.9 per cent CAGR between 2009 and 2014, according to a report on Strategic Analysis of Indian Logistics Market by Frost & Sullivan.

src: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/logistics/article1199952.ece

Pune based Vascon Engineers in tie up with Israeli firm Bhalak Realtors is coming up with a 105 Acres residential Township at Oragadam.

Click on the link below for further details


http://vasconengineers.blogspot.com/2010/12/vascon-engineers-israeli-firm-joint.html

Regards
Vinodh

http://twocircles.net/2011feb25/tamil_nadu_gets_new_trains_integrated_suburban_network.html

Apart from announcing that an integrated suburban train network would be set up in Chennai, Banerjee declared nine more additional services in the suburban services.

These will be run on Chennai Beach-Gummidipundi, Gummidipundi-Chennai Central, Avadi-Chennai Beach, Chennai Central-Tiruvallur, Tiruvallur-Chennai Central. The Chennai Beach-Tambaram service is proposed to be extended to Chengalpattu.

According to Banerjee, new lines will be laid on Sriperumbudur-Gummudipoondi and Mannagudi-Puddukottai routes

http://twocircles.net/2011feb25/tamil_nadu_gets_new_trains_integrated_suburban_network.html


According to Banerjee, new lines will be laid on Sriperumbudur-Gummudipoondi and Mannagudi-Puddukottai routes

Sorry to bust the bubble.. I could not find one mention of the above in the complete rail budget speech I read.

Can any one quote it from the budget speech..

SOURCE: http://pib.nic.in/archieve/railbudget/rbudget2010/RBspeechEng.pdf

^^
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Didis-poll-gift-to-city/articleshow/7576804.cms

The budget also has sanctioned survey for a new line to Sriperumbudur connecting Irungattukottai and Avadi. "This is a long-pending connectivity demand because Sriperumbudur is a fast-growing region and a line should be laid before the entire area is built up," he added.

I dont think IR will lay railway line to Sriperumbudur for next 25 years.
Since at this point of time Auto Industries is only hope for TN development Infra fac. to Sri and Ora is paramount for us and TN govt should go on its own by forming seperate corporation etc.

I dont think IR will lay railway line to Sriperumbudur for next 25 years.
Since at this point of time Auto Industries is only hope for TN development Infra fac. to Sri and Ora is paramount for us and TN govt should go on its own by forming seperate corporation etc.

It is leading contributor to economy but not the only one :)

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/multimedia/dynamic/00495/bl07_Tpt-blter--FTZ_495871e.jpg



Free trade warehousing zones (FTWZs) have been a phenomenal success in Jebel Ali, Singapore and Rotterdam. One has to visit these zones to see their sheer size and contribution to the regions they are located in becoming major logistic hubs.

The Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza), for instance, accounts for 25 per cent of all container throughput at Jebel Ali port and 12 per cent of all air freight at Dubai International Airport. Established in 1985, it covers a 48 sq km area and is home to over 6,400 companies from across the world. It sustains over 160,000 jobs in the UAE through its companies and accounts for over 50 per cent of Dubai's exports.

Can India replicate the success of Jafza? The Government conceptualised a FTWZ policy five years ago but not much has happened since. While industry experts say it is possible to replicate the concept in India, they add that it will take a long time to establish a facility like the one at Jebel Ali or Singapore or Rotterdam. “We need to be patient and wait for a long time,” said an industry source.

FTWZs, which are a special category of Special Economic Zone, offer services such as speedy delivery of cargo, one-stop for Customs clearance capability; integrated solutions, such as packing management, sorting, inspection, re-invoicing, strapping and kitting, assembly of complete and semi-knocked down kits, and taxation benefits.

According to Mr Harry S. Lagad, Executive Director, Gati Ltd, FTWZs are the future of India. “I do not think that today the concept and the model will find many takers. In the next five to 10 years, the way supply chains are executed will change. A lot depends on what the duty structure is going to be. Value addition and last-mile customisation will be the concepts that drive the growth in the FTWZ segment.”

DHL was the first global logistics company to set up a facility recently within the new free trade warehousing zone inside the Chennai Free Trade Zone in Sriperumbudur.

The Jebel Ali or Singapore FTWZs did not come up in a day. It took years for them to become world-class zones. India will become one such hub in a few years, said Mr Amadou Diallo, Chief Executive Officer, Africa and South Asia-Pacific, DHL Global Forwarding Managements. “In a couple of years you will see all of our competitors operating in Sriperumbudur or Oragadam (automobile hubs of Tamil Nadu),” he said.

Manufacturing companies do not want to move their products to Singapore or Jebel Ali FTWZ for value addition. This will only add to the overall cost. The logistics market in India earned revenue of $75.19 billion in 2009, representing 6.2 per cent of the country's GDP. The market is expected to touch $120 billion in 2014, a 9.9 per cent CAGR between 2009 and 2014, according to a report on Strategic Analysis of Indian Logistics Market by Frost & Sullivan.

Evolving concept

If one had gone to Jebel Ali 17 years ago, there would have been nothing in the free trade warehousing zone. It is a similar situation in India today, said Mr Diallo. The industry need to test, pilot and demonstrate the success of the zone as adding value to the local economy. If the government is convinced that it increases the competitive edge in Chennai or any other city, then the authorities will push for it.

Jebel Ali FTWZ was not started just because the Dubai authorities wanted to have it. Logistics providers too wanted it, he said. “I discussed it with many Indian friends, who complained that we do not have infrastructure here. I can assure you that if you look at world-class facilities, like the airports in Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore, a lot of things are happening. We cannot wait until all airports and highways are ready and start talking about logistics operations because these grow as the economy grows. It happened the same way in Jebel Ali or Singapore two or three decades ago,” Mr Diallo said.

Ms Rhea Vazirani, Founder Managing Director, Robinsons Global Logistics, says free trade warehousing zones are inevitable if India wants to achieve double-digit GDP growth rate. The objective of FTWZs is to create trade-related infrastructure to facilitate the import and export of goods and services with freedom to carry out trade transactions in free currency.

Support system

Having warehouses in each zone will make it easier to get Customs clearances to dispatch imported goods to retail outlets across India. Retail outlets and importers can plan their inventories better; save on transportation costs and add greater value to the customer. “FTWZs will only accelerate the efficiencies of industry and retailers,” she said.

According to Mr K. Ravichandran, Senior Vice-President, Co-Head, Corporate Sector Ratings, ICRA Ltd, although the concept is sound, they (the zones) will have to contend with competition from Container Freight Stations in the short to medium term as the latter already perform several functions that are done within FTWZs.

FTWZs would be suitable for units that have large import content in their manufacturing operations, and good domestic and export market potential for their sales. Such units can store the goods in the warehouses duty-free and sell to domestic or international customers as and when feasible. Such FTWZs would be economical if set up near ports, with significant market potential in the primary hinterland.

FTWZs located near the periphery of Chennai and Ennore ports should have good potential because of significant hinterland demand from several units among auto ancillaries, textiles, leather, electronics and chemicals. The region is slated to attract significant new investments in some of the above sectors, he said.




http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-logistics/article1515357.ece

State-owned Tamil Nadu Minerals (Tamin) is slated to float a new company for the manufacture of value- added granite products.

The new company may be a joint venture between Tamin and a yet-to-be decided foreign partner who would be decided on the basis of a global tender that is going to be floated.

A techno-economic feasibility study is presently being conducted by the Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI). IFCI will also examine the need for a new company to be formed or whether it could exist as a separate business division of Tamin.

IFCI is expected to submit its report in the next two weeks to Tamin’s board of directors.

The proposed Rs 30 crore project will involve the setting up of a state-of-the-art granite cutting and polishing unit at the SIPCOT complex in Irrungattukottai near Chennai.

The entire project is expected to be funded by equity capital.

N Govindan, the chairman and managing director of Tamin, said, “we would like to have a foreign partner who can bring in technology and marketing strength for the new value added products.

Tamin would be infusing Rs 16 crore and the balance Rs 14 crore would be brought in as equity by the joint venture partner.”

Govindan said that the new unit with a capacity of 144,000 sq meters of building slabs will earn a turnover of Rs 50 crore and a net profit of Rs 5 crore annually.

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/rio-tinto-likely-to-impose-conditionriversdale-bid/130389/

http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id=582414

Chinese telecom gear maker Huawei Technologies has already kicked off the production of optical network transmission equipment in a plant in Chennai of South India, said Justin Chen, CEO with Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Limited on Wednesday night.

Chen said the plant also would manufacture wireless network equipments in the future while refraining from elaborating the investment amount for the plant.

Nokia handset output crosses 500 m
Mobile phone maker Nokia has said that its state-of-the-art facility at Sriperumbudur near here has crossed the 500-million mark in handset production.

This is, perhaps, the fastest production ramp-up that Nokia has seen in any of its ten facilities across the globe.

The 500th million phone, a Nokia C3-00, will be autographed by brand ambassador Shahrukh Khan and auctioned. The proceeds of the auction will go to a charity.

Nokia has also decided to gift all its employees a Nokia C3-00 handset as a gesture of appreciation for contributing towards achieving this milestone.

Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, Prakash Katama, Director, Chennai Factory Operations, Nokia India, said the Finland-based company had invested around $285 million and carried out two expansions in the Indian facility. Since it was set up in 2006, the facility had grown to become the largest mobile phone making unit in the world, he said. The Nokia Telecom SEZ (Special Economic Zone) today housed five component suppliers, he said.

Mr. Katama said there was lot of room for increasing the local content of the handset made from Sriperumbudur. Currently, the local content was around 20-30 per cent, he said. The handsets made in India went to over 100 countries across six continents, he added. He expressed confidence that the company would touch the one billion handset production mark sooner than later.
Link - http://www.thehindu.com/business/companies/article1994180.ece

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Dell-will-set-up-centres-in-Delhi-Bangalore/articleshow/8182322.cms

What is in store for Sriperumbudur plant?

The expansion has been done to make the plant ready for future capacity requirements. We plan to build focus on western markets and exports. Right now, about 80% to 85% of the output is for Indian market consumption and the remaining for exports. The capacity has increased by 30% in the last one year. As part of the latest expansion, the production footprint is being doubled from 75,000 sq ft to 1,50,000 sq ft. We have around 600 employees at the plant and another 700 as outsourced labourers:cheers:

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/article2063054.ece

OBO Bettermann, Germany-based electrical support infrastructure company, is planning to invest Rs 150 crore in setting up a manufacturing facility at Oragadam, near Chennai.

Mr S. Gopa Kumar, Managing Director, OBO Bettermann India (100 per cent subsidiary of the German parent), told Business Line the investment would happen in two phases.

The company has acquired a five-acre parcel of land opposite to the Renault Nissan plant at Oragadam, he said.

The proposed facility will manufacture metal-based electrical and data cable support systems for the growing domestic and other Asian markets. OBO Bettermann is a €400-million family-run company manufacturing electrical infrastructure such as connection and fastening systems, transient and lightning protection systems, cable support and fire protection systems and cable routing

Minister inspects Oragadam SIPCOT

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: State Industries Minister C. Shanmugavelu on Monday inspected the SIPCOT in Oragadam, Kancheepuram district.

An official release said that during the inspection the Minister visited the Hi-tech Special Economic Zone where electronic hardware industries were functioning. After that, the Minister visited Renault Nissan unit there.

The Minister also held discussions with industry representatives and officials on how to attract new industries into the State and create more employment opportunities. The Minister was accompanied by N. Sundaradevan, Principal Secretary, Industries, the release added.

http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/08/stories/2011060864790500.htm

On 14.2.2010, in post# 250 I presented just one image. Now after an year and a half a major portion of the road may be complete. It will be good if forummers can post a few updates.`

On 14.2.2010, in post# 250 I presented just one image. Now after an year and a half a major portion of the road may be complete. It will be good if forummers can post a few updates.`


I traveled on this road on 11th June between Singaperumal Koil(SP Koil) and Sriperumbadur. The road condition between SP Koil and Oragadam is quite poor. I think that stretch is about 15 kms out which only about 4 kms are good, the rest is just a poor single lane road and is not fit to be classified as a state highway.

The 4 laning of the road between sriperambadur and Oragadam is 75% complete, Initial 2 kms 4 laning work is in progress and the road is in a very bad shape, the next 2-3 kms is a 2 laned road, 4 laning is complete beyond this point till oragadam. Flyover construction is under progress near oragadam junction.

Thank you for the informative report. I hope some photographs will follow.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/article2216463.ece?homepage=true

Chennai, July 10:

Hinduja Foundries Ltd, which had been planning to set up a greenfield castings factory near Toopran in the Medak district of Andhra Pradesh and had even bought land there, has dropped the idea because of the ‘Telangana problem'.

The company has instead decided to add capacity at its existing facility at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai.

Confirming this to Business Line, Hinduja Foundries' Managing Director, Mr B. Swaminathan, said that while Andhra Pradesh would have been an advantageous location in terms of relative proximity to customers in the Pune-Gurgaon belt, the ‘Telangana issue' has caused the company to revise its decision in favour of Tamil Nadu.

The Rs 550-crore Hinduja group company today has two plants in Tamil Nadu, at Ennore and Sriperumbudur (commissioned three years ago), and one in Hyderabad.

These plants can produce 146,000 tonnes of castings for automotive applications, mainly cylinder blocks and cylinder heads.

Demand for these products is soaring.

Last year, Hinduja Foundries produced 72,790 tonnes of castings, one-and-a-half times more than the previous year. But today, the company has orders for 140,000 tonnes and Mr Swaminathan reckons that it would be able to supply 120,000 tonnes – worth Rs 1,000 crore — which means the company's topline will double this year. (On Friday, the company's share closed at Rs 83.35 on the BSE.)

The burgeoning demand establishes the case for capacity expansion. Hinduja Foundries has announced a capex of Rs 70 crore, part of which will expand the Sriperumbudur capacity from 50,000 tonnes to 72,000 tonnes, taking the total capacity to 168,000 tonnes, by the end of the current financial year.

But going beyond, the company plans to raise capacity to 200,000 tonnes. This would call for an investment of around Rs 150 crore.

This could have happened in Andhra Pradesh, but the turmoil caused by protestors, who want a new State carved out of Andhra Pradesh, has made investors nervous.

For Hinduja Foundries, apart from proximity to customers, availability of cheaper power than Tamil Nadu was an attraction.

“The preferred State is Tamil Nadu for us,” says Mr Swaminathan, “as it is a very industry-friendly State.”

Asked about the shortage of power in Tamil Nadu, he said that he was confident that the situation would be remedied soon by the State Government

Doosan Heavy to Start Up Power Facility in India

Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction Ltd., based in South Korea, will set up a manufacturing facility in Chennai, India, Indian media is reporting. The new factory will manufacture boilers for thermal power projects in the country, India’s Business Standard reported.

The facility would produce equipment for the generation of about 3,000 MW every year at a time when India is looking to scale up its power equipment manufacturing capacity.


http://rermag.com/trends_analysis/internationalnews/doosan-heavy-power-facility-india-071511/

The timing for Doosan to enter the market is perfect. They will make hay when the sun shines


Doosan Heavy to Start Up Power Facility in India

Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction Ltd., based in South Korea, will set up a manufacturing facility in Chennai, India, Indian media is reporting. The new factory will manufacture boilers for thermal power projects in the country, India’s Business Standard reported.

The facility would produce equipment for the generation of about 3,000 MW every year at a time when India is looking to scale up its power equipment manufacturing capacity.


http://rermag.com/trends_analysis/internationalnews/doosan-heavy-power-facility-india-071511/

Crossposting:


http://ibnlive.in.com/news/new-train-to-link-chennai-mannargudi/168057-60-120.html
The progress of track doubling work between Chengalpattu and Dindigul had been reviewed and 20 km of the 107 km-railway track between Chengalpattu and Villupuram would be doubled by end of 2011, while the 50 km stretch on the Villupuram-Dindigul sector would be ready by December 2012.

The `800 crore new railway line project between Avadi — Sriperumpudur — Guduvancherry has been sent to State government for cost sharing.

:banana: At last something is moving on.. Hope JJ shares cost and cooperates for speedy completion. :)

Crossposting:




:banana: At last something is moving on.. Hope JJ shares cost and cooperates for speedy completion. :)

Yes it will happen in 2041.

1. It is the initiative of Indian Railway - We know how efficient they are.

2. The project needs partnership of State Gov - Now That make it even more hard.

Crossposting:




:banana: At last something is moving on.. Hope JJ shares cost and cooperates for speedy completion. :)

Nope! it is pazhaya panchagam!

IR board has sent such proposal no. of times to state gvt even during dmk rule. TN gvt rejected it.

Anywise gvt will invest money for a metro line or private express commuter line or good road for SRPD not on a single line slum corridor with Indian railways. I am sure even the present gvt will reject the proposal of cost sharing. All state gvt can do is helping in land acquistion and giving the state gvt land's for free.

^^ Hmmm atleast now they have some sort of information to start with rather than just companies crying for rail link. If govt is willing, it is possible. We have to wait and watch. No other go.

CHENNAI: The Southern Railway's plan to connect Sriperumbudur to the city by laying a new railway line will become reality only if state government agrees to fund 50% of the total cost of roughly Rs 800 crore.

The railways has forwarded a request to the state government to fund part of the 55km line to be laid from Avadi to Sriperumbudur and connect it further to Oragadam and Guduvancherry. With this railway line, the industrial hub will be linked to two major lines - the Chennai-Jolarpet-Katpadi line and the Chennai-Gudur line.

Minister of state for railways K H Muniappa speaking at a function in Sriperambudur on Tuesday said the ministry would take steps to expedite the project which is in its initial survey stage.

"We are waiting for the state government's decision to finalise the project and send the proposal for Parliament's sanction," said Southern Railway chief administrative officer Vijay Kumar.

The project will have to go through four stages before construction can start. It will have to be approved by Parliament and then the railway ministry before it is included in the budget. Funds will be allocated after the project figures in the budget.

Once completed, the line will help manufacturing units inand around Sriperumbudur to transport their wares to Chennai port or to other parts of the country. Currently, the companies depend on NH4 to transport raw materials and finished products.

Southern railway set its eyes on Sriperumbudur a few years ago when industries started demanding a railway line to move freight. The state government had also promised a railway line when industries opened up here.
Sources said that the funding should be decided quickly as land acquisition would be a problem as the area is developing rapidly.


Source: The Times of India, Chennai Edition, Dated 10-Aug-2011 (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Sriperumbudur-Avadi-rly-line-awaits-govt-funding/articleshow/9548867.cms)

Source: The Times of India, Chennai Edition, Dated 10-Aug-2011 (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Sriperumbudur-Avadi-rly-line-awaits-govt-funding/articleshow/9548867.cms)

Nice to hear. Will be a dream project.

You need a really really passionate,driven and gutsy CM to make this happen.

Do we have one such a CM who will be prepared to loose some voted and may be couple of MLA seats to take on this project?

This project is a real challange when it comes to land.

Nokia Siemens expands Oragadam facility

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has expanded its manufacturing delivery centre located at Oragadam in Chennai to 55,000 sqm from 35,000 sqm in addition to ramping up the product lines to address the demand from the telecom sector.

"The expansion will strengthen India's position as one of our major manufacturing hubs in the Asia Pacific in addition to supporting the growth of India's growing telecom sector", said Ashish Chowdhary, head of India and customer operations East, NSN.

The company had made a cumulative investment of about $70 million including the $15 million that went for the recent expansion.
The Chennai facility, second global for the company, has played a key role in enabling Indian operators to roll out their 3G networks quickly and make NSN one of the leading international 3G mobile infrastructure and services vendor in India with around 30 per cent market share, he added.

Herbert Merz, head of operations and member of the NSN executive board, said the company was active in sourcing of components from local vendors.

"Last year, we have procured close to $300 million worth of equipments from the Indian suppliers. We buy items like digital signal processing, semiconductors, mechatronics from the domestic suppliers," he said.

Supply equipments not available in India like high value semiconductor, printed circuit boards, passive resistors and capacitors, etc are bought from international suppliers. "This $300 million sourcing is only for our Chennai factory and our component sourcing is many times higher in the overall Indian operations," he said.

The global telecom B2B vendor is currently catering to 10 Indian telecom operators including Aircel, Bharti Airtel, BSNL, defence sector, Idea, Railways, Tata, Vodafone, Videocon, among others. The company has about 15 per cent of its global workforce in Chennai and with the expansion it would be rolling out five new telecom products along with the existing 28 products.

Sriperumbudur to be developed as a Satellite town :banana:

The Minister of State for Urban Development, Shri Saugata Roy informed the Lok Sabha today that the Ministry of Urban Development is running a pilot scheme for Infrastructure Development in satellite town around mega-cities. The pilot scheme supports development of infrastructure facilities related to Solid Waste Management, Water Supply and Sewerage in the selected towns to channelize their future growth and ameliorate pressure on mega-cities. It also provides for implementation of reforms such as e-governance, property tax, double entry accounting, creation of barrier free built environment and energy & water audit.

The eight satellite towns identified for implementation of the scheme are Vikarabad (Andhra Pradesh), Sanand (Gujarat), Sonipat (Haryana), Kankapura (Karnataka), Vasai-Virar (Maharashtra), Sriperumbudur (Tamilnadu), Pilkhua (Uttar Pradesh) and New Town (West Bengal).


http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=74601

I am sceptical. Lets see what happens.

Sriperumbudur to be developed as a Satellite town :banana:



http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=74601

I wished they included Chengulpet too since it already has suburban connectivity. For SPDR it might speed up decisions on the Greenfield Airport and Avadi-SPDR-Guduvancheri line .

:)

Pleased to request.

Shift polambal to this thread. this thread wants its share.

as per post in mono thread, alstom has gone back to set shop in srcity and not in sriperumbudur as speculated some time back .

^^

this is quite old.. they want to keep their foot in all three dt in south, while shahabad in Gulbarga dt (KA) got heavy engineering related investment, CBE got components manufacturing for transport engineering. To make foot print in AP, they went to Sricity.

^^

this is quite old.. they want to keep their foot in all three dt in south, while shahabad in Gulbarga dt (KA) got heavy engineering related investment, CBE got components manufacturing for transport engineering. To make foot print in AP, they went to Sricity.

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Greenfield Airport plan on fast track Express News Service , The New Indian Express
Posted on Sep 05, 2011 at 10:36am IST

NEW DELHI: Plans for a new airport at Sriperumbudur near Chennai seemed to have taken wings after officials of Airports Authority of India (AAI) met with Chief Secretary Debendranath Sarangi with a proposal for the airport last week.
AAI sources confirmed that the executive director (Architect) of AAI met Sarangi to give him a presentation on what the airport would look like. The proposal also suggested that the new airport should be� privatised. Five sites in the area were identified for the project with TIDCO’s recommendations.
While AAI had made a proposal for two parallel runways at the site, International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)-appointed Louis Berger Group Inc submitted a techno-feasibility study on dual airport operations in which it recommended that one runway would be enough to meet the demands, given the constraints of land procurement for the greenfield airport. ICAO report also recommended the airport be built on a public-private partnership basis. “With the current modernisation, the capacity for handling 23 million people will be achieved by 2018-19. Beyond that, a new airport becomes mandatory. Spadework on the greenfield airport is likely to start in 2016,” an AAI source said.
On the economic feasibility of building the new airport, ICAO recommended that AAI could be responsible for phase I of construction but later the operations and expansion should be handed over to a private party. The anticipated expenditure for phase-I of the project is `4,000 crore with a 87,000 sq mt terminal along with a parking space for 750 vehicles. “In the second phase we are looking at 1.5 lakh sq mt of terminal and enhancing parking space to accommodate 1,500 vehicles. This will require an investment of `1,475 crore,” an AAI official said.

Nice to hear. Will be a dream project.

You need a really really passionate,driven and gutsy CM to make this happen.

Do we have one such a CM who will be prepared to loose some voted and may be couple of MLA seats to take on this project?

This project is a real challange when it comes to land.

Lol. project on desert-where no issue of land acqusition is also challenge for railways. No need of passionate CM stories for this never executable paper project.

The system of project execution, funding has to change. Even if visionary person sits there, when system is worst for project execution in railways, that visionary person will be called as dumb.

Its sheer waste of time... This project isn't going to fly... With land acquisition and other unforeseen nightmare in the cards, why do we even think of going for an airport which is inaccessible, far away from chennai and economically unfeasible to operate... :bash:

Inaccessible ? build access.
Far away from Chennai ? C'mon, Chennai is growing fast.
Economically unfeasible ? How ?

Its sheer waste of time... This project isn't going to fly... With land acquisition and other unforeseen nightmare in the cards, why do we even think of going for an airport which is inaccessible, far away from chennai and economically unfeasible to operate... :bash:

It is very much accessable.

Present Meenambakkam airport is like a Tier 3 town airport of Europe city. Mumbai & Delhi airports are much better as it is by private parties.

High time govt allows private party or JV with the govt to build this new airport at sriperumpudur

^^
No need for a new Airport.. present one can be operated efficiently to meet even 35 Millions after expansion. Even a third parallel runway could be constructed.

If TN Govt. can acquire 5000 acres of land near SPD, it would be wiser to use it for Industrial development which may help to boost SGDP to a large extent and facilitate employment for a million. Pl don't focus on showing off.

^^
No need for a new Airport.. present one can be operated efficiently to meet even 35 Millions after expansion. Even a third parallel runway could be constructed.

If TN Govt. can acquire 5000 acres of land near SPD, it would be wiser to use it for Industrial development which may help to boost SGDP to a large extent and facilitate employment for a million. Pl don't focus on showing off.

+1

SRPD needs wider roads, more industries, high rise apartments, malls and monorail/metro rail to Chennai, Chengalpattu and Thiruvallur not an airport.

36 million looks like 1,00,000 passengers can be handled daily

Now 12300+ 25000 = 37300 handled by present terminus.... but 2018 this will reach 1,00,000 passengers per day!!

After opening new terminals in 2012, the terminals will get chocked in 2018 itself.. wow looks CMDA planned better, CMBT got chocked in 8yrs, but MAA will get chocked by 6yrs. CMBT/AAI should learn from Southern railways how to use terminals for 30-40yrs w.o expansion and how to choke the passengers effectively....:lol:

they should start work for more terminals and third runway right now, so that by 2022 it will come into operation.

^^
No need for a new Airport.. present one can be operated efficiently to meet even 35 Millions after expansion. Even a third parallel runway could be constructed.

If TN Govt. can acquire 5000 acres of land near SPD, it would be wiser to use it for Industrial development which may help to boost SGDP to a large extent and facilitate employment for a million. Pl don't focus on showing off.
I would still go for new airport, atleast acquire lands now and start building it after 2 or 3years. Once an airport comes to SPD, those areas farther than that will start growing like Thakkolam, Palur etc etc like how SPD started growing now. Build Rail/metro/mono lines as well.

Whats problem in growing towards west? SGDP, it will start growing two-folds do not worry, after all it is investment.

^^ Very true.. Can take the city's industrial growth to Kanchipuram and beyond..

http://www.investingintamilnadu.com/tamilnadu/why_tamilnadu/tn_industry_profile.php#breadcrumb

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SRPD needs wider roads, more industries, high rise apartments, malls and monorail/metro rail to Chennai, Chengalpattu and Thiruvallur




^^
+1 . This definitely needs to happen before they plan airports. Although projected passenger figures in 2020 and lack of space for additional runways may be a compelling reason for AAI to consider a Greenfield airport . But since the present Airport is being expanded with an investment of around 3000 crores they will have to make a pretty strong case for a new one .The one thing is CMDA does have an entry in its Master Plan for the New Airport(Unbudgeted).

http://www.cmdachennai.gov.in/Volume1_English_PDF/Vol1_Chapter04_Transport.pdf

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