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interaction COVER STORY Powered by Our aim is to play an active role in metro projects by bringing our best products and services at a competitive price FRIENDS EQUIPMENT is the authorized PAN India distributor for China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (CRCHI) a leading company in design, research manufacturing and service of high-end underground engineering equipment and track equipment. RAJEEV KUMAR, CEO, FRIENDS EQUIPMENT spoke to CONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITIES on the company’s product offerings in the metro rail space. Could you brief us on your range of Shield, Slurry Pressure Balance Shield, Hard Zhuzhou, Longchang, Lanzhou, Urumqi, product or solutions and their applications Rock TBM and Dual Mode TBM etc. are Baotou, Dalian, Taiyuan and Guangzhou as in the metro rail space? used for excavating underground metro well as 11 research institutes in Changsha, China Railway Construction Heavy tunnels; fasteners and turnouts are widely Beijing and Lanzhou etc., CRCHI has the Industry Co., Ltd. (CRCHI) was founded used in the alignment of metro and railways. biggest R&D center and manufacturing in 2007 and afliated to China Railway No matter what kind of methodology capability in the world for Tunnel boring Construction Corporation (CRCC), will be used for the tunnel construction, machine, annual capacity is over 300 units, which ranks 62nd in the world's top CRCHI can provide one-stop solutions for more than 100 units of TBM has been 500 enterprise. CRCHI is a professional TBM tunnel, NATM tunnel and drill and manufactured and delivered in the year 2016. enterprise which integrates research, blast tunnel etc. design, manufacture and service of high-end Which are the metro projects in which you underground engineering equipment and As a company, give us a sense of the are present, their current status, scope of track equipment, such as Tunnel Boring emphasis you place on R&D and work and cost, timeline for completion? Machine, Drill Jumbo, Shotcrete, Railway innovation? Provide the USP’s of your CRCC constructed over 1,209km length of fasteners, turnouts and so on. oferings vis-a-vis competition tunnel in 2016 and CRCHI TBM has be CRCHI actively takes the advantages of used for 27 cities’ metro lines in China. Our Any new products introduced in the the construction industry and fully uses machines are also working in Iran, Taiwan market – and how have they been received? the long-term construction experience and and Russia. In India, we are focusing on Tell us about the geographies/projects in technique of CRCC, strengthening the all metro jobs including Delhi metro, which they are being targeted? combination of industry, university, research Bangalore metro and Ahmedabad metro, CRCHI brand tunnel boring machines, and application. Currently, CRCHI has Nagpur metro etc., but also other tunneling which include Earth Pressure Balance multiple manufacture bases in Changsha, projects where the TBM will be used. 54 construction opportunities|aPrIL 2017