ACI Bureau The 19th edition of IMTEX and the 21st Tooltech, organised by the Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association (IMTMA) that concluded recently at Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) brought technologies, innovations and new products under one roof to cater to the growing needs of various industrial sectors. IMTEX is the flagship event of the Indian metal cutting industry. It[Read More…]

Story & Pictures: Ashish Bhatia The 16th edition of Symposium on International Automotive Technology 2019 (SIAT 2019) was organised by Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), in association with SAE INDIA, NATRiP and SAE International (USA), at Bavdhan, in Pune between January 16 and January 18, 2019. A biennial fixture in the automotive industry’s calendar, SIAT 2019 lived up to[Read More…]

ACI Bureau The automotive sector with its focus on creating differentiated offerings for global markets and appetite for investments is an attractive industry. However, while cost arbitrage continues to be a key driver for R&D globalisation, there is a pressing need for Indian MNC R&D companies to take on big technology bets to drive innovation. Given India’s vast engineering skills[Read More…]

ACI Bureau “Automotive aftermarket industry provides 4 times more employment than any other sector in manufacturing, and many of the manufacturing companies survive on the profitability which they derive from the aftermarket,” R Dinesh, Chairman of Auto Serve 2018, and Joint Managing Director of T V Sundram Iyengar & Sons Ltd, said. He was speaking at the inauguration of Auto[Read More…]