Tracking Infrastructure

Caterpillar expantion plans in india

noreply@blogger.com (santoshpandey1978@rediffmail.com) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:49:00 +0000

As part of its strategic plan to increase its manufacturing footprint in the rapidly growing Asia-Pacific region, Caterpillar Inc has announced a four-year, $ 200 million to ramp up its Indian operations over the next four years in India.

Caterpillar plans to increase production capacities at its diesel engine plant at Hosur, and the earthmoving equipment plant at Tiruvallur - both in Tamil Nadu - to cater to the South East Asian and Russian markets, apart from India.

Caterpillar is also contemplating a new production line at Tiruvallur to roll out high-capacity dumpers of over 120-tonne capacity for the export market.

The company manufactures off highway vehicles like dumpers, backhoe loaders, engines, engine components and generator sets in India.

"This additional investment demonstrates Caterpillar's commitment to customers in India and the importance of emerging markets across the Asia-Pacific region," a company release issued here quoted Caterpillar chairman and chief executive Jim Owens as saying.

Caterpillar will invest to significantly increase production for off highway trucks made at its facility near Chennai. These trucks are used for coal and other mining applications in India. The company also plans to expand engine production at its facility in Hosur, adding production of the Caterpillar 3508 engine. It is also investing in increased India production capability for backhoe loaders. It has already more than quadrupled production of backhoe loaders in the country in recent years.

The company is also studying increasing its range of products made in India, with the possibility of building additional manufacturing facilities to meet demand for other earth-moving products.

Infrastructure - Brief Info

noreply@blogger.com (santoshpandey1978@rediffmail.com) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:21:00 +0000

Infrastructure is a life breadth of any nation as it provides strong foundation for the growth of other sectors of an economy. Infrastructure includes roads, railways, bridges, highways, airports, shipping ports, canals, dams, commercial and corporate buildings etc. For building huge infrastructures, machineries both heavy and light is necessary. Machineries like cranes, loaders, dumpers, excavators, mixers, crushers, etc. are serving the purpose very well.

According to world survey global demand of construction machinery is expected to rise by 4.9% annually through 2009 with the market capitalization of around $110 billion. The number of people employed by this sector also shows an encouraging trend. The world economy has shown the robust growth of 3% in the year 2005-2006 thereby pushing the demand of construction machineries across the world for creating big infrastructures.

The major suppliers of infrastructure equipment in the world are North America, Japan and western Europe. With the expansion of world economy the demand of these machineries from developing world is increasing.

The prospects attached with the industry of infrastructure equipments has attracted the attention of Indian manufacturers and exporters. In recent years Indian producers of both heavy and light machines has performed very well both in the domestic and the world market. The reforms of the government and the trade pact with the neighboring countries has also contributed to the growth of Indian construction machinery industry to a larger extent.

Action Construction Equipment

noreply@blogger.com (santoshpandey1978@rediffmail.com) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:08:00 +0000

Action Construction Equipment has been awarded ISO:9001 certification by CVI (Conformity Verification International) and its products have functional parameters such as lifting height, ground clearance, travels speed and lifting capacities and has countrywide
The policy of responding efficiently has led to repeat business, resulting in growth and making it an established player in the Mobile Cranes sector in the country. Another factor driving the companies growth has been the versatility of its equipment to satisfy a vast range of possible applications. The Company’s equipment is being successfully used in many sectors like Infrastructure construction, Power Projects, Ports & Shipyards, Dams, Metro Rail, Roads, Coal Mines, Steel Industry, Engineering Industry, Railways, Cement, Petroleum, Defence, Chemicals and Fertilizer Plants, Building Construction etc. to name a few.
The Company has sold its equipment to most of the leading Private and Government Sector Companies in India such as Reliance, ABG, L&T (ECC), BSES, BHEL, Punj Lloyd, Essar, Gammon India, Nagarjuna Construction, Gujarat Ambuja, IISCO, Simplex Concrete, Coal India, BSNL, Gannon Dunkerley, Bhushan Steel, PSL, ISPAT, IVRCL, Indian Railways, Adani Port, NTPC,IOCL, Shapoorji Pallonji, Alstom, NHPC, UB, ACC, Tata, Kalpataru, KEC, Krupp, Airport Authority of India, Ministry of Defence, HPCL, IPCL, Unitech, Welspun, Aditya Birla Group etc.

Products of the Company are also being exported to U.A.E., Qatar, Sultanate of Oman, Kuwait, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Singapore and Portugal.
The Company’s recent foray into products like Back Hoe Loaders, higher capacity Tower Cranes etc. has helped it in expanding its product portfolio, and has given it an opportunity to cash in on the growing demand for construction equipment. The Company’s existing client base has accepted and appreciated its new product offerings.
The Company has a Marketing Head office at New Delhi and a dedicated Product Support Division is located at Faridabad.
The Company has an all India network of 37 Sales & Service Dealer outlets and offices, that provide efficient and effective pre-sales and after sales service. Five Regional Offices based at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Visakhapatnam support these outlets. The Company has also set up dealerships in Middle East Asia, Bangladesh and South Africa and is in the process of establishing more dealerships in other parts of Asia, Africa and South America.
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Equipment finance

noreply@blogger.com (santoshpandey1978@rediffmail.com) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:28:00 +0000

Indian economy is on the fulcrum of an ever-increasing growth curve.With positive indicators such as a stable 8-9 per cent annual growth, rising foreign exchange reserves, a booming capital market and rapidly expanding FDI inflows, India has emerged as the second fastest growing major economy in the world.

With the thrust of the Indian Government on the infrastructure segment with multilateral agency funded, time bound projects many important infrastructure sector projects are currently in progress which include:

The Golden Quadrilateral
North-South-East-West Corridor,
Prime Minister Sadak Rozgar Yojna,
National Hydro Power Corporation,
Port Authority,
Telecom,
State PWD's (Road & Irrigation projects) and the River Linking projects.

The public & private sector banks are also participating in this development programme by catering to the financing requirements of the various entities involved in this segment. To facilitate the user of this segment ,banks have a lot to offer:

* Equipment finance for the purchase of new / used construction equipment.
* Take over of existing loans on construction equipment.
* Letter of credit (domestic and imported)
* Bank guarantees (including bid bond, performance and financial guarantees)
* Foreign exchange products

Banks & NBFC's customise construction equipment loans to suit the needs of all its clients; right from new entrepreneurs to large business houses. Leading banks & financial services provide value added services by tying up with leading construction equipment manufacturers to provide a wide variety to its clients.

TELCON

noreply@blogger.com (santoshpandey1978@rediffmail.com) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:03:00 +0000

Undoubtedly the leader in excavator segments with almost 50% market share(in India). Telcon is a subsidiary of TATA MOTORS has a turnover of US$283 million. Telcon has 50% market in excavator and 11% market in overall construction equipment segment with tata group of companies, contractors and government enterprises are its major segment. Company has collaborated with Hitachi construction machinery company, Japan for hydraulic excavators and cranes; john Deere, USA for backhoe loader technology; CESAN, Turkey for asphalt plants.They have works at jamshedpur in jharkhand and dharwad in karnataka.

Recently, Telcon has acquired a controlling stake of 79% in Serviplem S.A., Spain specializing in the manufacture of Truck mounted concrete mixers and Dry bulk tanks for the transport of concrete and cement respectively. Serviplem has a presence in over 50 countries across the globe and is ranked amongst the TOP 6 manufacturers in the world. Telcon has also acquired a controlling stake of 60% in COMOPLESA LEBRERO S.A, Spain.

Telcon is the largest manufacturer of construction equipment and has two manufacturing plants - at Jamshedpur in Jharkhand and at Dharwad in Karnataka. The company is coming up with a third plant in Kharagpur that would be spread over 60 hectares with additional facilities for a vendor park. The Kharagpur plant will produce backhoe loaders, midi excavators, off - highway dump trucks, wheel loaders and large mining shovels. This will take Telcon towards being a full liner in the construction equipment business. It will also house a full - fledged R&D centre. Hitachi, while actively participating in creating the R&D facilities, will aim at making the new centre a global R&D hub.

VOLTAS

noreply@blogger.com (santoshpandey1978@rediffmail.com) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:44:00 +0000

Another giant of material handling segment. Voltas is the leader in, air conditioning and refrigeration and 2nd largest player( in india) with 31 % marketshare in forklift segment. The company has a turn over of US$ 260 million. Most of the engineering industries are the customers of Voltas.

Over the years, Voltas has built up a substantial reputation and is actively engaged in turnkey projects in fields such as electro-mechanical works comprising electrical building services, HVAC, plumbing, public Health, fire fighting, ELV & specialised systems; electrical power projects; environmental and water pollution control; pumping stations and water supply; water & waste water treatment projects. The Company has ISO 9001 - 2000 standards certification in this business, and has successfully undertaken and executed project works in the Middle East, Far East and South East Asia, CIS countries and Africa.

Voltas' sourcing and marketing operations cover air conditioners, textile machinery, machine tools, mining and construction equipment and industrial chemicals. In these sectors, the company demonstrates its specialised engineering expertise, as well as its extensive network for global sourcing.

Voltas possesses total capability in the manufacture of room/split air conditioners, industrial air conditioning and refrigeration equipment, water coolers, commercial refrigerators, visicoolers, freezers and fork-lift trucks. All these products bear the stamp of state-of-the-art automated manufacturing plants resulting in consistently high quality and reduced costs.

Voltas is having territorial offices in more than 8 cities and 3 international locations with head office in mumbai and zonal offices at mumbai, kolkatta, new Delhi and chennai.

BEML goes overseas

noreply@blogger.com (santoshpandey1978@rediffmail.com) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:15:00 +0000

BEML LIMITED, Rs.3000 Cr Indian Conglomerate engaged in the manufacture of heavy earthmoving equipments for the Mining and Construction sector, railcoaches and metro rail cars to the Railway segment, heavy duty trucks for the Defence needs and recently stepped into Trading and Technology businesses, has opened its Overseas Office at Shanghai, China, in April this year.

With this company would be sourcing critical components and machinery parts required for the manufacturing of its mining and constructions equipments as also for the manufacture of wagons and railcoaches, taking best advantage of the position of China as the low-cost centre for global outsourcing of engineering parts and aggregates.

These sourced components would be meeting the required technicals and quality stipulations with comparatively lower costs. In addition, BEML is intending to promote and market high-end Mining & Construction equipments and spare parts for Mining Companies in China.

Company is anticipating to transact a business volume of over Rs.300 Crore, in span of 2-3 years. BEML will also target the countries in North West of China like Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, etc through this office.

BEML, to realize its goal of going global, has established market and customer base in over 52 countries with an export turnover of Rs.258 Crores. To establish its International presence, BEML has opened an Assembly Unit at Brazil through a Joint Venture and an exclusive Sourcing and International Warehouse at Malaysia.

Having a tie-up with the Chinese companies like M/s. Xiamen having done a business volume of Rs.10 Crore in 2006-07 and Rs.48 Crore in 2007-08.

With Representative and Marketing Office for Outsourcing and promoting its high-end mining equipments in china & other countries, BEML expects to raise its business volume substantially and increase its market share besides encashing on the emerging market growth in India.

The event at China has also witnessed signing of Memorandum of Understanding for sourcing and contract manufacturing with major Chinese Companies viz., M/s. Hunan Sunward Intelligent Machinery Co. Ltd., for Mid-size Excavators upto 15 tons and with M/s. Sino Truck Ltd., Shantong Province for supply of 30 & 50 ton Tippers and skid loaders.

BEML LIMITED has set Rs.3600 Crore as its Business Target for the year 2008-09.

Bharat earth mover ltd.

noreply@blogger.com (santoshpandey1978@rediffmail.com) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:50:00 +0000

BEML is a premier ISO 9001-2000 Public Sector Undertaking of India & the largest excavator maker player in earthmoving equipment domestic market (india) & almost has 70% market share in this sector & around 12%in overall construction equipment segment. The company has turnover of US$484million.The company is the largest public sector undertaking in this industry. They cater to some of the biggest name of this industry like Delhi Metro,Coal India & Jessop Co. Ltd. in railways. The company has establishment in bangalore, Kolar gold fields & mysore in karnataka with 33 marketing offices .The company has a very strong Hold in government sector. BEML is also the second largest manufacturer of earth moving equipments in Asia and manufactures equipment that has important applications in diverse sectors like steel, power, mining, coal, cement, construction, irrigation, road building and railways.

BEML offers a wide range of equipments including:

Construction equipments like Bulldozers, Dump Trucks, Hydraulic Excavators, etc.
Rail coaches, rail buses, etc. for Indian Railways.
Heavy duty trucks, trailers and heavy recovery vehicles for transportation sector.

Volvo Construction Equipment

noreply@blogger.com (santoshpandey1978@rediffmail.com) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:13:00 +0000

Volvo Construction Equipment is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of construction machines. With a full product range, manufactured, serviced and supported all over the globe, we’ve got the right machine and the right solution for all your jobs. Take your production and profits further with Volvo wheel loaders, mini wheel loaders, backhoe loaders, wheeled excavators, excavators, mini excavators, articulated haulers, motor graders and skid steers.

Volvo CE’s completed its acquisition of 70% of the shares in Chinese wheel loader manufacturer Shandong Lingong Construction Machinery Co. This deal makes a way for volvo in entry level wheel loaders, excavators and compactors, as well as a strong foothold in the rapidly expanding Chinese marketplace.The product offering increased by 100 products from acquired companies, while at the same time new generations of existing machinery were launched .

2007 was a year of unprecedented organic growth and acquisitions. Company succeeded in establishing a strong foothold in Asia through the acquisition of Lingong and entered into the road equipment business as one of the world’s leading manufacturers. Now the company is focusing on improving profitability in 2008, and to achieve tis they are working on active price management, improving industrial productivity and cutting costs.”

The outlook for 2008 is expected to be in line with 2007. As per the company the European market is expected to continue to grow in the range of 0-5%. North America is expected to decline between 5-10% while the rest of the world is expected to compensate for the US downturn with growth of between 10-15%.

Volvo CE’s order bookings remain strong, with a total value of the order book on December 31st 2007 some 48% higher than on the same date a year earlier, excluding Lingong and Ingersoll Rand’s road equipment division.

Ingersoll Rand

noreply@blogger.com (santoshpandey1978@rediffmail.com) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +0000

Ingersoll Rand (now Volvo)is a $17 billion global diversified industrial company, driven by employees who are proud to offer products and solutions people use every day to create a positive impact in their world. Driven by a 100-year-old tradition of technological innovation, we enable companies and their customers to create progress.

Ingersoll-Rand is the market leader in compactor segment (Soil & Tandem) with39% marketshare and turn over of US$ 104million.
The company has its wings in air solution, climate control and compact vehicle technologies.
It has operations in bangalore and ahmedabad and has a good distribution network with 22 company offices and more than 75 distributors across India with its major products like air compressors, compaction equipment, pavers & light towers

JCB has 70% Marketshare in backhoe

noreply@blogger.com (santoshpandey1978@rediffmail.com) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:22:00 +0000

Joseph Cyril Bamford launched the construction and agricultural equipment manufacturing company that bears his initials, in 1945. He began his business in a garage that measured 12 feet by 15 feet.

Today, JCB’s world headquarters is one of the finest engineering factories in Europe. The company that began as a ‘one man band’ now employs over 8,000 people and produces over 290 products – with bases in the UK, the USA, India, Germany and South America.

It also sells a full range of equipment in over 150 countries, but JCB’s remarkable success story cannot be fully appreciated by studying a litany of statistics. JCB has an ethos, a spirit and an identity that cannot be conveyed by facts and figures. Perhaps one question and one dictionary definition might go some way to explaining why JCB is a very special company.

JC bamford (JCB) is the first and largest backhoe loader maker in the world. Currently the have more than 225 models ranging from backhoe to wheel loaders to excavator. They have 70% market share in backhoe segment with their 3DX model being the bestseller .

JCB has planned for the production of world class excavator from india & for this they are awaiting allotment of land from Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) for its facility. JCB India has demanded another 100 acre land next to its two present units in Talegaon near Pune, to which the Government of Maharashtra is yet to react.

JCB, as part of its planning, has decided to have an expanded set up in Talegaon ready by end of current year. The present situation however has ensured that the land allotment itself will happen by the year-end. JCB, in November last year, had inaugurated its excavator manufacuting unit in Talegaon industrial area, when the demand for the next piece of land was forwarded. The company is also upgrading its facility in Ballabhgarh (Haryana) presently..

Major Players & manufacturer of infrastructure industry

noreply@blogger.com (santoshpandey1978@rediffmail.com) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:08:00 +0000

Major Players & manufacturer of today’s who are dominating infrastructure industry are:

Action construction equipment Ltd Crane manufacturer now diversifying into other segment
Ashok Leyland Tippers & other equipment manufacturer
Gujarat Apollo const. equip. Ltd Paver & other equipment manufacturer
Atlas Copco D G set manufacturer
BEML Construction equipment manufacturer
Bomag Compaction equipment manufacturer
Caterpillar Construction equipment manufacturer
Chicago Pneumatic Air compressors manufacturers
Doosan Construction equipment manufacturer
Elgi Equipment Manufacturer, Supplier of Garage Equipment, Compressors.
Escorts const. Equip. Ltd Manufacturer of construction & material handling equipment
Godrej & Boyce mfg Co. Ltd. Manufacturer of material handling equipment
Greaves Ltd. Manufacturer of transformer & generators
Greaves Cotton Ltd. Manufacturer of construction, mining & metallurgical equipment
I ngersoll Rand Vibratory compactor & other construction equipment manufacturer
JCB Ltd. construction equipment manufacturer
L&T construction equipment manufacturer
Case Backhoe loader & construction equipment manufacturer
Komatsu Construction equipment manufacturer
Kobelco Manufacturer of excavators (mini, large), cranes.
Putzmeister AG Manufacturer of concrete pumps & high pressure cleaners
Schwing Stetter Concrete equipment manufacturer
SANY Excavator,Grader & concrete equipment manufacturer
Tatra manufacturers of trucks
TATA manufacturers of trucks& tippers
HITACHI Excavator,Grader & concrete equipment manufacturer
Terex Makes articulated dumpers, backhoe loaders, front shovel hydraulic mining excavators, motor scrapers, tractor loaders
Telcon Construction equipment manufacturer
Tractors India Ltd. manufactures Mobile Cranes, Reachstackers, Stacker Reclaimers, ELL Cranes and host of other High Tech products
Voltas Ltd. Makers of industrial air conditioning & commercial refrirerators, forklifts trucks & large water pump supply
Volvo Ltd.Makes articulated dumpers, backhoe loaders, hydraulic mining excavators
Kalmar Industries AB low-built forklift .
Fantuzzi Reggaiane
Wirtgen India Pvt. Ltd.Mobile road construction equipment
Metso Crushing units
Sandvik rock minerals total solutions for the mining and construction industry

Overview

noreply@blogger.com (santoshpandey1978@rediffmail.com) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:37:00 +0000

Adequate infrastructure is an essential factor in the economic growth. The need of adequate infrastructure viz. Urban, industrial, commercial, social & transport is very vital for any country today. Under the agenda of infrastructure a massive requirement of national & international assistance is required is required to generate good opportunity for infrastructure players, contractor, mine owners & others are required to buzz the growth in various industries like cement, steel, equipment manufacturer, engineering and last but not the least finance. Today’s infrastructure requirement has given a turnaround to this industry. There is a vast range of equipment available for the kind of need this industry is generating. The excavators and the earthmoving equipment’s are dominating this industry. Therefore they have the largest product range available today starting from backhoe loaders to excavators. The structure of construction equipment industry is mainly divided into these:

Concrete Equipment
Earthmoving equipment
Mining Equipment’s
Material Preparation
Road Construction Equipment
Material Handling Equipment’s

Potential customer buy & use several equipment which are deployed for mining, earthwork, civil construction, road / bridge construction, drilling, demolition, lifting, material handling & irrigation etc

Backhoe Loaders
Boring Equipment
Concrete Batchmix Plant
Concrete Pumps
Concrete Mixers
Cranes (Pick N carry, Heavy duty, Tower & Derrick)
Crushing Plants
Dumpur’s
D G Sets
Excavators
Hot mix Plant
Crushing Plant
Wheel Loaders
Motor grader
Vibratory Compactor