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Capital Goods Sector - Steps being taken to enhance technology depth: Minister

By TIOL News Service

NEW DELHI, MAR 14, 2017: THE Department of Heavy Industry has already approved four Centres of Excellence (CoE) in the fields of Textile Machinery, Machine Tools, Welding Technology and Smart pumps under the Scheme for enhancement of competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Industry.

At present Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka is developing Hi-Tech shuttleless looms; Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Tamil Nadu is developing 11 Machine Tools Technologies; PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu is developing 3 welding technologies and Scientific and Industrial Testing and Research Centre (Si'Tarc), Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu  is developing  smart submersible pumps.

Institutes like Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Science  and Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, Bangalore are also engaged in working out advanced manufacturing technologies in collaboration with Industry.

Institutions for setting up Centres of Excellence (CoE) were identified in the Notification for the Scheme on Enhancement of Competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Sector. A copy of the Notification is available in the website of the Department of Heavy Industry at dhi.nic.in

Centres of Excellence will help to increase technology depth of the domestic Capital Goods Industry and render it amenable to adoption of new high precision and more efficient ways of manufacturing.

This information was given by Minister of  State in the Ministry of  Heavy Industries  and Public Enterprises Mr Babul Supriyo in reply to a written question in the Lok Sabha today.


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