FABTEC INDIA 2011 AND COLLABORATION WITH M/S.P.E.SCHALL GMBH AND CO., GERMANY

CODISSIA is very proud and happy to announce that we have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with M/s. P.E.Schall GmbH and Co., KG, Germany, the biggest private exhibition operator in the world for conducting an Industrial Exhibition FABTEC INDIA 2011 at CODISSIA Trade Fair Complex, Coimbatore. The Exhibition will mainly focus on display of machinery and equipments used for steel structural fabrication, sheet metal forming and stamping technology, welding equipments, tube and pipe producing and fabricating equipments, painting and coating equipments.

The collaboration with M/s.P.E.Schall will enable CODISSIA to bring in more international industrial participation and focus on subject specific exhibitions related to industries.  M/s.P.E.Schall will market the exhibition internationally and already has participants base of over 900 industries from over 25 countries including India. M/s.P.E.Schall conducts such an exhibition biannually in Germany in the name of Blechexpo and in the recently concluded 8th exhibition in Stuttgart, the exhibition space occupied exceeded 60,000 sq.mtrs. (6 lakh sq.ft)

CODISSIA has strategically tied up with M/s. P.E.Schall Gmbh along with the support of the Indian Welding Society (IWS) to conduct this exhibition. The Indian Welding Society is premier professional body, devoted to the cause of welding in the country.  The Society is committed for promoting advancement in Welding, Cutting and Reclamation, Hard facing and related technologies and in providing a forum for professional exchange of information, experience and developments in the field. IWS is pursuing the knowledge dissemination goal on a continual basis.

The collaboration with M/s.P.E.Schall brings to India and especially to Southern India, the latest technology in Fabrication, welding and coating. This will be a big advantage for the indigenous industries to increase their business and grow globally due to the booming infrastructure and manufacturing activities in India for which welding and fabrication is the need of the hour.

With the coming in of Multinational Companies, Foreign Direct Investments and mega projects there is lot of potential for outsourcing in the field of infrastructure, power, mass transportation, automobile, FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) like air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines etc., 

It is the need of the hour for the Indian Industries to update with the changing trends in manufacturing globally and to look beyond domestic markets.  CODISSIA feels the industry should be enlightened with the latest changes in technology to upgrade their process to manufacture world class products and machinery to the markets in India as well as abroad.

CODISSIA is very much confident that this collaboration with M/s.P.E.Schall will provide a platform showing the latest machinery in working condition at Coimbatore and also they can observe the happenings on the international scenario.

CODISSIA and M/s. P.E.Schall have also agreed to conduct two more such exhibitions in Coimbatore namely CONTROL INDIA related to metrology equipment and process monitoring and TECHNO PLAST INDIA related to injection moulding, plastic extrusion technology and mould and die making which will be conducted in the later half of 2009.

CODISSIA TAKES LEAD IN ORGANIZING INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIRS AND ESTABLISHING PERMANENT TRADE FAIR COMPLEX

Established in 1969 with 40 members, today CODISSIA is the largest District Association of Small Industries in India with more than 5000 members in its fold.  Entrepreneurial development, Ancillary development, Assistance to solve the problems of industries, Arranging buyer seller meet, Organising Industrial Trade Fairs to promote marketing and technology transfers, Skill development programs and Industry institutional interactions are a few among the several activities of CODISSIA to upgrade the MSME’s in this region to global standards and prosper in the indigenous and export market.

When the people of the South were deprived of big industrial exhibitions or Trade Fairs, even though Coimbatore has been endowed with natural resources and perfect industrial and infrastructure setting, CODISSIA took the initiative to lead in organizing industrial fairs at Coimbatore in the 1980s.  Thus INTEC Fairs came to stay to be the favourite of Industry and trade for all the prosperity and opportunities it brings.

The ready market acceptability and increasing popularity of INTEC fairs evolved the awareness and necessity of going in for a permanent building for trade fairs with a long term perspective.  Undeterred by the challenges that kept cropping up in the way,  CODISSIA leapfrogged all the obstacles and set up the colossal CODISSIA TRADE FAIR COMPLEX in the year 2000.

CODISSIA Trade Fair Complex, established in 2000, is to help Industries to improve innovative capabilities, exchange business information and enter into tie-ups resulting for optimum output, technology transfer and upgrading the process and products to Global quality standards. The complex is instrumental to bring the second industrial revolution to Coimbatore in 2000 at a time when industry and trade were in a grip of recession in the end of 1990’s.

Now CODISSIA’s dream run is on to make this great city as a leading Trade Fair city of India.  Several National and International level trade fairs like Agri Intex, Udyog Expo, Build Expo, Textile Fairs, Consumer Fairs, Subcon, etc. are conducted frequently in our complex.

CODISSIA holds many MOUs with leading International organizations.  CODISSIA signed an MOU with German Machinery and Plant Manufacturer’s Association, VDMA, Bavaria Section, Germany to ensure over all development of industrial activities in Coimbatore region and to tie up arrangements for exports from Coimbatore.  CODISSIA joined as a partner with ZDH Partnership Programme, Singapore, and organized several workshop to benefit industries. 

PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE
Globalisation is like a fast train.  It stops only at few platforms and not every place in the world is connected to it.  We have to find ways to get more people on to that train.  Market growth and distribution will vary with different patterns of geography and social development; the industry must be part of the transformation and keep pace with market developments to benefit.  The fabrication, welding and coating industry has experienced a significant geographical shift caused by rapid growth in emerging markets in countries such as Brazil, Russia, India and China.  The industry makes a substantial contribution to the global economy and to individual national economies, both in production and recycling activities.

The top markets for the industry include transportation, packaging, consumer products, building and construction.  Transportation continues to be the largest market for sheet metal fabrication, welding and coatings.  The global geography of the fabrication, welding and coating industry has experienced major reconstructive and geographic changes driven by energy, environment and market. The Asia market will contribute to more than 60% of the increase in almost all sectors, including transportation, construction and consumer durables (like TV, Fridge etc); however, the emerging market is focused on infrastructure building, transportation, machinery and equipments, electrical, ship building and container and packaging which is different from the pattern in western countries.

The rise in energy costs and the need for environmental protection worldwide make the industry to look for newer technology, efficient utilization of material, manpower and energy.  Although the industry is currently successful in key markets such as transportation, packaging and construction, a number of challenges are emerging from the increasing energy, raw material and environmental.  Innovation is the key to staying competitive and growing in the face of these challenges and opportunities.

The industry in the developing countries will focus on innovation and technology because the market volume in these countries will grow at a relatively steady rate.  Research and development is vital to provide robust and cost-effective solutions.  Providing better produces selection guidance, increasing the use of automation and robots, lowering reject and repair rates.

The future growth of the industry will require significant resources, which without new technological approaches may constrain the supply of raw materials and create additional environmental issues.  New approaches that may reshape the industry itself are needed to keep the industry healthy and sustainable.  Advances are needed in information technology inorder to have “smart material” ready to use in 2020.

Growth of business in an era of shortening product life cycle and aggressive competition requires not only speedily available innovative inputs and rapid access to international markets but also measures for the protection of new technologies and product through appropriate intellectual property rights.

So, we need look beyond India to grow and compete.  It is misnomer to say that we go out and sell whatever you can sell.  We must go and sell where people do not want you, or people say that we are not capable.

In the era of globalization, it is very difficult for an industrial enterprise to survive by itself.  Hence there is a definite need for strategic alliance and in case forging of alliance between enterprises and institutions is crucial for their survival and growth.