Sriperumbudur & Oragadam Projects Update

[senthil2001msk]

Laird to manufacture in Chennai

http://www.ciol.com/Technology/Mobil...13608107060/0/

Approximately 1,000-1,200 people to be employed in 160,000sqft facility when in full operation

CHENNAI, INDIA: USA-headquartered Laird Technologies Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of customized, performance-critical products for wireless and other advanced electronics applications, today hosted a dedication ceremony for its first manufacturing facility in India. Laird. a unit of the UK-based Laird Group PLC, employs over 14,000 employees in more than 40 facilities located in 14 countries.

The facility, located in the Nokia Telecom SEZ (Special Economic Zone) in Sriperembudur near Chennai, was inaugurated by L.K. Tripathi, Chief Secretary to Tamil Nadu Government and G.K. Pillai, Commerce Secretary, Government of India. Mike Connor, British Deputy High Commissioner and Director of UK Trade and Investment for Southern India, was also present for the occasion, as were top management from The Laird Group PLC and Laird Technologies, Inc.

With an investment of over $15 million, Laird's 160,000 sqft manufacturing facility will employ between 1,000 to 1,200 people when in full production. The facility will initially produce antennas, battery packs and EMI shielding products for cellular handset applications for its Indian customers. The company also expects to export the products manufactured at the Chennai facility to overseas markets.

According to Sri Talpallikar, Laird Technologies Managing Director-India, the choice of Chennai as the company's first location in India was due to the "availability of a skilled workforce, support from the Tamil Nadu Government, the presence of good logistics, excellent infrastructure facilities, lower costs and our 'close to the customer' strategy. This new facility will allow us to support our Indian customers with products in a timely and efficient manner."

Laird already supplies products to large Indian enterprises in the mobile phone, telecom infrastructure equipment, computer hardware, and automotive electronics sectors from manufacturing facilities outside India. By setting up of the manufacturing facility in Chennai, Laird Technologies is poised to aggressively expand its customer base over the next 12-18 months in the rapidly growing market for electronic products in India.

Marty Rapp, Laird Technologies CEO, added: "Our new manufacturing facility in Chennai is a big step for us in our goal to be local, globally. Now that the facility is in operation, we look forward to introducing a wider range of our products, and servicing the rapidly growing electronics market in India."

[senthil2001msk]

Aspocomp & Wintek to start operating in Nokia's park in India within three months

http://www.evertiq.com/news/read.do?news=11489&cat=5

Aspocomp and Wintek may open operations in Nokia’s Telecom Park at Sriperumbudur within the next three months.




The mobile phone manufacturer will then have all its major suppliers on the vicinity; Salcomp, Aspocomp, Foxconn, Perlos, Jabil, Laird and Wintek. The park is said to further recruit staff to increase its workforce to 30000 by 2009. Nokia’s total investment so far has reached $210 million and a further investment of $75 million is planned for this year, according to sify. Most of the here produced products are sold in India and other Asian markets.

[madurai veeran]

Truck unit to be set up at Oragadam

CHENNAI: Finally, Daimler-Hero Motor Corporation has decided to locate its truck manufacturing facility near here.

The unit, a joint venture of the $4-billion Hero Group and the world’s largest truck maker Daimler AG, is likely to come up at Oragadam.

A memorandum of understanding is likely to be signed soon. Hero Motor will have a 40 per cent stake and Daimler will invest the rest.

Led by Sunil Kant Munjal, chairman of the new company, officials of the Hero Group and Daimler met Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and other officials here on Wednesday to seek their support for the project.

Informed sources said the partners will invest Rs.4,400 crore over five years. While Hero will invest Rs. 900 crore and Daimler Rs. 1,386 crore, the rest will be raised through debt. The plant will have an annual capacity of 70,000 trucks.

To begin with, it will produce light and medium vehicles and then move to heavy-duty trucks. The first truck will roll out by 2010. The trucks will have 80 per cent local content.

“This will be the fourth manufacturing unit for Daimler, after Japan, Germany and the U.S. Daimler is planning to convert the new plant into a manufacturing hub for Asia to meet the demands of the domestic as well as international market. For the Hero Group, it is the maiden entry into Tamil Nadu. It is the world’s largest manufacturer of cycles. We will persuade them to expand their manufacturing activities,” an official told The Hindu.

Before finalising the place, the company officials had said they would like to fix a location that had good infrastructure, supply chain and logistics. The plant will employ around 2,000 people.

http://www.hindu.com/2008/06/18/stor...1854020500.htm

[Subra]

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[Rasnaboy]

N. Anand

CHENNAI: The State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (SIPCOT) on Wednesday sanctioned more than Rs. 5 crore for creating common infrastructure at the Irungattukottai apparel park.

PSK Engineering will build women’s hostel, crèche, design studio and clinic at a cost of Rs. 4.25 crore.

Another Rs. 1 crore has been earmarked for training equipment.

“In the past, we failed to get a favourable response as the bids quoted by contractors were huge. However, we succeeded in our last attempt, since we clubbed all the facilities under one head. PSK emerged as the lowest bidder; incidentally, it has constructed most of the buildings in the Collectorate,” SIPCOT Chairman and Managing Director N. Govindan told The Hindu.

Source: http://www.hindu.com/2008/06/19/stor...1954810500.htm

[senthil2001msk]

Sriperumbudur Emerges As First IT Investment Region

http://www.rttnews.com/ArticleView.a...=635092&SMap=1

(RTTNews) - Sriperumbudur, near Chennai, is all set to become India's first IT investment region, as the area is emerging as a hub of electronics, telecom hardware and automobiles, Financial Chronicle reported.This is an initiative initiated by the Union Communication and IT ministry on the lines of Petroleum, Chemical, Petro-products Investment Region or PCPIR.

A quadrilateral zone of 1,600 sq.km. with its boundaries connecting Chennai, Kanchipuram, Chingleput and Mahabalipuram, will be earmarked as the IT Investment Region. The zone will connect the Chennai-Bangalore NH-4 to Kanchipuram, Chennai-Tiruchi NH-45 up to Chingleput and Chennai-Mahabalipuram IT corridor, besides linking Mahabalipuram, Chingleput and Kanchipuram.

The central and state governments will create necessary infrastructure jointly. However, the governments will neither extend any tax benefits nor assist the investors in procuring the land, a senior state government official informed the media.

The motivation to set up an IT Investment Region in the nearby Sriperumbudur is inspired by the fact that Chennai-Kanchipuram belt has become a hub of electronics and telecom hardware manufacturing industry and that of Old Mahabalipuram Road a software hub. Moreover, there is a vast hinterland lying between these two major corridors that are ideally suited for infrastructure development. In addition, there is a scope for future development rapidly along the arterial road, which is more evenly spread, the official informed the media.

Besides these two corridors, the region encompasses the GST Road (NH-45) that has already attracted investments from automobile giants like Ford.

It is also home to a few SEZs, including Mahindra Global City. The nearly Oragadam belt will be housing several automobile majors like Renault, Nissan, Caparo, M&M and Apollo Tyres, the report said.

[Madras_Fan]

And finally the tenders for 4 laning of works for sriperumbudur - Oragadam along with vandalur - wallajabad is ON. Now Tambaram - Kanchi buses can zoom in 40 minutes after completion of this projects. I would suggest government should acquire land for rail strip along these stretches as the freight potential will be so huge

Roman Tarmat bags new orders from Tamil Nadu Infrastructure Development Corporation

Roman Tarmat Ltd has announced that the Company has received 2 (Two) new work order from Tamilnadu Road Infrastructure Development Corporation (Govt. of Tamil Nadu Undertaking).

The company has received a Project - Oragadam Industrial Corridor road - Kancheepuram District Improvements (4 Lines) to Singaperumalkooil - Sriperumpudur road. The Letter of Acceptance No.: TNRIDC/Tender/Package - I/2008. The Value Of the Contract is Rs 5698 Lakhs.

The company has received another Project - Oragadam Industrial Corridor road - Kancheepuram District Improvements (4 Lines) to Vandalur - Wallajabad road. The Letter of Acceptance No.: TNRIDC/Tender/Package - I/2008. The Value Of the Contract is Rs 4950 Lakhs.

http://www.equitybulls.com/admin/new...t.asp?id=32814

[kvijayasundaram]

http://www.hindu.com/2008/06/22/stor...2254780500.htm

Preliminary works are under way for setting up a Rs.1,300-crore container terminal in the Sriperumbudur Lok Sabha constituency, Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T.R. Baalu said on Saturday.

Inaugurating a ‘health mela’ at Sriperumpudur on Saturday, he said the Chennai Port Trust would acquire 64 acres at Gerugambakkam. The terminal, he said, would function as a “dry port,” where all procedures for export and import of goods could be completed.

[Subra]

http://www.tn.gov.in/pressrelease/pr...260608_479.pdf

Investment - 300 crores.

[R2IChennai]

Originally Posted by kvijayasundaram

http://www.hindu.com/2008/06/22/stor...2254780500.htm

This is excellant one more feather in cap for Sriperumbudur belt, making it competetive to anyport city (even though its just 40kms from two major ports)

[senthil2001msk]

http://www.techshout.com/mobile-phon...hone-in-india/

With the growing popularity of Motorola phones in India, it is apparent that RCom wants to cash in on with the phone’s growing subscription base. Although RCom already supplies many other CDMA handsets like Nokia, the number one phone in India with respect to its market share, what sets its association with Motorola W362 apart is that the Motorola phone is completely made in India as per the claims made by RCom. The handset is made at the Motorola plant in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu.

[senthil2001msk]

http://www.dailythanthi.com/Vanigam.asp

Name : Videocon electronics
Type : Consumer electronics manufacturing
Investment : INR 2000 crores
Location : Oragadam
Plant size : 100 acres
MOU : to be signed with one month

[kvijayasundaram]

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/3194310.cms

US-based auto component giant Delphi’s Indian expansion is gaining speed. It is setting up a manufacturing unit to produce electronics and safety management system (ESM) products in Chennai. The greenfield project, coming up on ten acres at Oragadam, is meant to serve as a cluster for several customers, including Tata’s small car ‘Nano’ project.

In-principle approval for the project, entailing an investment of Rs 300 crore, has been obtained last month, sources close to the development told ET. Land has already been allotted for the purpose. Though the procedural process for the project began end-last year, it is still in the work-in-progress stage.

The hardware unit would manufacture products for the booming India market, where advancements in automotive space are taking place rapidly. To address changing customer needs, technology is deployed to enable integration of safety and functionality features in the end-product. The unit in the emerging auto corridor would produce instrument clustres in the first phase and then follow it up with a range of products like air bags, seat belts, immobilisers and body computers (microprocessor-chip driven controls for a range of applications like wiper, headlamps and power windows). There are not many players in the entire value-stream of EMS, sources added.

The new venture is aimed at tapping the multi-billion dollar ESM market, the overall market size of which is expected to touch $7 billion by 2016, according to industry observers. For Delphi, this separate line of business would enable it to straddle hardware and software, to be present in the entire value-chain.

The Michigan-headquartered Delphi, which has been present in India as a wholly-owned subsidiary since 1995, considers India as one its key markets in the Asia Pacific. It operates through four manufacturing facilities, located in Bangalore, Noida, Gurgaon and Manesar, and one technical centre in Bangalore.

The centre, which started out with 36 employees, has now grown to 600 employees. Delphi is planning to add another 250 engineers by 2010 to support local and global automotive programmes. In response to queries from ET, Delphi’s India head office in Delhi said, “Our technical centre in India provides products and back-office support to Delphi globally.”

The Technical Center India (TCI) in Bangalore was set up in 2000 to support global requirements for automobile technology solutions. Since then, the TCI has grown and expanded rapidly. “Our presence in India has had both manufacturing and product development and applications engineering aspects to it.

We have been supplying to Indian and global OEMs in India. And we are committed to supporting the growth of our customers,” it said. “Going forward, Delphi plans to expand the localised products in the Indian market to support customers in India and improve competitiveness and leverage our technological development capabilities and establish design capabilities,” it said.

Delphi will leverage its technological development and design capabilities for executing programmes for Indian OEMs. “We plan to pursue Indian OEMs aggressively and simultaneously leverage parent relationship to win business with foreign OEMs,” it further said.

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[Subra]

Cool ! This is on top of the 500 crore investment from Delphi-TVS at Oragadam for manufacturing common rail diesel injection (CRDI) systems.

[senthil2001msk]

Delphi-TVS to invest Rs 500 cr in their Chennai plant

http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14588174

Auto parts maker Delphi-TVS today said it will invest Rs 500 crores in its manufacturing and technical centre at Chennai and expects a revenue of Rs 1,200 crore by 2012.

[Subra]

I couldn't wait till monday guys.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/3203829.cms

NEW DELHI: The Rs 4,400 crore Hero-Daimler joint-venture project to build commercial vehicles will come up in Tamil Nadu. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) under the name Daimler Hero Motor Corporation (DHMC), will be signed on Monday at Chennai in the presence of Hero and Daimler top brass. The head of the Daimler truck division Andreas Renschler will fly down from Stuttgart for the signing ceremony with the Tamil Nadu government.

The manufacturing plant, which will initially focus on light and medium commercial vehicles, is likely to be established in a more than 1,000 acre campus. It will be an integrated manufacturing facility and will commence operations from 2010, with an initial production capacity of 70,000 trucks per year.

It will be an expandable facility and will roll out heavy commercial vehicles in the 49 tonne pay load capacity by 2012. It will give direct employment to around 2,000 people. The DHMC project will be set up under the Tamil Nadu "Ultra Mega Integrated Automobile Projects Policy" which offers huge concessions to automobile projects involving an investment of not less than Rs 4,000 crore in a single location.

DHMC would enjoy total refunds on VAT and CST, 100% exemption from stamp duty, concessional land and concessional power supply, but will have to start production within seven years of signing the MoU with the government. Besides the entire 'Input tax' is also refundable under this investment promotion policy.

"The facility will start with an R&D centre focusing on light and medium commercial vehicles being developed to suit Indian conditions. The new facility would avail heavy discounts from the Tamil Nadu government and help it to produce low-cost commercial vehicles for the domestic market and also utilise Chennai's port facility for export in the Asia Pacific region," sources in the automobile industry said.

In the new venture, Daimler will invest Rs 1,386 crore for 60% equity while Hero puts up Rs 900 crore for the remaining 40%. DHMC will handle the volume-oriented lower-end commercial vehicles and the top-end specialised products from the Daimler stable, like the Mercedes-Benz Actros truck range, will be rolled out from Mercedes Benz India's new Chakan plant.

DHMC will launch an all new brand of commercial vehicles in India and for export. The Stuttgart based Daimler will not bring its existing international truck brands - Mercedes Benz, West Star, Freightliner, Sterling and Mitsubishi Fuso - but develop a new full channel of low-cost range of trucks for the domestic and export market.

[Subra]

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/3203863.cms

SCL plans to set up a die castings plant at Oragadam with an investment of Rs 80 crore. It is to meet the massive expansion programme of Hyundai. It is also proposed to set up an export unit at Mahindra World City at a cost of Rs 70 crore

[wcgokul]

Originally Posted by Subra

I couldn't wait till monday guys.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/3203829.cms

NEW DELHI: The Rs 4,400 crore Hero-Daimler joint-venture project to build commercial vehicles will come up in Tamil Nadu. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) under the name Daimler Hero Motor Corporation (DHMC), will be signed on Monday at Chennai in the presence of Hero and Daimler top brass. The head of the Daimler truck division Andreas Renschler will fly down from Stuttgart for the signing ceremony with the Tamil Nadu government.

The manufacturing plant, which will initially focus on light and medium commercial vehicles, is likely to be established in a more than 1,000 acre campus. It will be an integrated manufacturing facility and will commence operations from 2010, with an initial production capacity of 70,000 trucks per year.

It will be an expandable facility and will roll out heavy commercial vehicles in the 49 tonne pay load capacity by 2012. It will give direct employment to around 2,000 people. The DHMC project will be set up under the Tamil Nadu "Ultra Mega Integrated Automobile Projects Policy" which offers huge concessions to automobile projects involving an investment of not less than Rs 4,000 crore in a single location.

DHMC would enjoy total refunds on VAT and CST, 100% exemption from stamp duty, concessional land and concessional power supply, but will have to start production within seven years of signing the MoU with the government. Besides the entire 'Input tax' is also refundable under this investment promotion policy.

"The facility will start with an R&D centre focusing on light and medium commercial vehicles being developed to suit Indian conditions. The new facility would avail heavy discounts from the Tamil Nadu government and help it to produce low-cost commercial vehicles for the domestic market and also utilise Chennai's port facility for export in the Asia Pacific region," sources in the automobile industry said.

In the new venture, Daimler will invest Rs 1,386 crore for 60% equity while Hero puts up Rs 900 crore for the remaining 40%. DHMC will handle the volume-oriented lower-end commercial vehicles and the top-end specialised products from the Daimler stable, like the Mercedes-Benz Actros truck range, will be rolled out from Mercedes Benz India's new Chakan plant.

DHMC will launch an all new brand of commercial vehicles in India and for export. The Stuttgart based Daimler will not bring its existing international truck brands - Mercedes Benz, West Star, Freightliner, Sterling and Mitsubishi Fuso - but develop a new full channel of low-cost range of trucks for the domestic and export market.

yeah baby..........

[Subra]

[TechCity]

A survey by global consulting major, Capgemini, late last year suggested that India could challenge China and emerge as the next big manufacturing destination over the next three-to-five years. On the surface, that sounds like a fantastic claim. But as BT crisscrossed manufacturing hubs across the country, we found the sheer amount of activity taking place in these towns mind-boggling. From smaller towns like Aurangabad, a traditional manufacturing hub, to newer locations like Paradeep, manufacturers are setting up shop and expanding at a breakneck speed. So, what makes these towns good locations for manufacturing? At a broad level, these include the availability of land and cheap labour, a healthy industrial relations atmosphere, physical infrastructure (roads, airports) and proximity to markets. Then, state governments are providing fiscal incentives to build on the many natural advantages these clusters enjoy. Here’s what BT discovered…


Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu
State capital: Chennai
Nearest airport: Meenambakkam, 43 km
Nearest seaport: Chennai, 50 km
Connected by: Road and air
Major industries: Automobiles, telecom, cement, electronics and glass
Major units: Hyundai Motor India, Nokia and Saint-Gobain

Hyundai’s Sriperumbudur plantIt was Hyundai Motor India’s decision, in 1996, to set up its plant in this sleepy hamlet that turned the arc lights on Sriperumbudur. Hyundai was followed by 50 ancillaries, which turned the area into an auto manufacturing hub. The South Korean auto major has so far invested Rs 4,000 crore. In 2001, Saint-Gobain, the France-based glass manufacturer, followed with a Rs 535-crore unit, which was subsequently expanded by another Rs 800 crore. And in 2005, Nokia set up a cell phone manufacturing facility in its SEZ here. “Within three years, the SEZ (of 220 acres) is filled up,” says Sachin Saxena, Director, Nokia India. Then, a host of smaller companies have also set up base in this neck of the woods. All of them speak glowingly about the region’s “enabling bureaucracy”, which makes land acquisition and other procedures a breeze. M. Velmurugan, Director, Industry Guidance Bureau, Tamil Nadu, who administers the state’s single window clearance scheme, says: “We anticipate and facilitate matters for investors on the ground even before the discussion is over and we close the deal.’’ The nearest airport, at Meenambakkam, is 43 km away, but there is a proposal to build a new airport at Sriperumbudur itself. The nearest seaport is 50 km away in Chennai.

The availability of skilled manpower only adds to the attractiveness of this cluster. However, there are storm clouds forming in the horizon. “The CITU (the often militant trade union arm of the CPM) is raising its head,” warns Suhasini Frederick, the owner of Sriperumbudur Times, a local newspaper, adding that the Sriperumbudur-Oragadam region has about 400 manufacturing units.

—Nitya Varadarajan

Tirupur, Tamil Nadu
State capital: Chennai
Nearest airport: Coimbatore, 50 km
Nearest seaport: Tuticorin, 320 km
Connected by: Road and air
Major industries: Apparel and readymade garments
Major units: Styleman Exports, Network Clothing Company and Royal Garments

An export unit in TirupurTirupur accounts for 56 per cent of Indian knitwear exports. The town is attractive as a cluster, thanks to the well organised ancillary network that helps exporters.

These units have invested more than Rs 1,500 crore on upgrading technology to meet exacting international standards at short notice. Skilled manpower is also freely available.

However, there are only a handful of units with revenues of more than Rs 100 crore, and this may prove to be its Achilles’ heel in an increasingly integrated world.

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Source:http://businesstoday.digitaltoday.in...tent&task=view

All major manufacturing hubs in india is dicussed in this article.