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Ground breaking ceremony of Sandvik’s new manufacturing and R&D facility plant in Chakan, Pune.

Ground breaking ceremony of Sandvik’s new manufacturing and R&D facility plant in Chakan, Pune.

As part of its continued growth in the country and to leverage India’s position as one of the best cost countries in its operations, Sandvik had recently announced a commitment to set-up a world-class manufacturing facility at Chakan, which is part of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) Industrial Park near Pune. Development of the site commenced today with the[Read More…]

by August 10, 2015 News
RBI’s firm stand fails to dilute auto industry’s optimism

RBI’s firm stand fails to dilute auto industry’s optimism

  RBI’s firm stand on repo rates in its announcement in August 2015 has failed to damped the spirit of the Indian auto industry. While industry leaders see growth coming from passenger vehicles (cars and utility vehicles) and commercial vehicles (M&HCVs), the rate of growth is estimated to be in single digits. A slump in rural demand hitting two-wheeler growth,[Read More…]

by August 5, 2015 News
IIT-Madras and Harita Seating Systems to collaborate

IIT-Madras and Harita Seating Systems to collaborate

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) and Harita Seating Systems Ltd (HSSL) will collaborate to address the cause of road accidents by developing disruptive products. The disruptive products are expected to aptly intervene in order to avoid road accidents. As an initiation of this process, IIT-M will transfer indigenous technological knowhow to HSSL on ubiquitous monitoring of driver performance[Read More…]

by August 4, 2015 News
MapmyIndia and Eicher to make school buses connected

MapmyIndia and Eicher to make school buses connected

MapmyIndia has partnered with VE Commercial Vehicles for enabling connected school buses. The solution, which aims to provide comprehensive details about the children and the bus during transit, will be equipped optionally on newer Eicher buses. The solution will include vehicle tracking via GPS, RFID tags for children to track when the get off and get on the bus, on[Read More…]

by July 28, 2015 News