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Powered by COVER STORY interaction Name a metro project and Escorts cranes are there Escorts Construction Equipment with its Greenfield manufacturing facility at Ballabgarh in Faridabad caters to all major construction and infrastructure projects PAN India. The company offers various types of cranes that find applications in all metro projects. RAJINDER RAINA, GENERAL MANAGER, ESCORTS CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT spoke to CONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITIES on his company’s products and future opportunities in the metro rail space. Could you brief us on your range of besides some more models in TRX-Series. project and Escorts cranes are there. product or solutions and their applications All these cranes have been well accepted in the metro rail space? in the market. Tese cranes have higher Provide us a brief idea of the existing Metro rail space in India is predominantly reach and load handling capacity with market opportunities and your strategy over ground. Te pillars are cast in-situ rest superior geometry that makes them that to tap those going forward? everything else is precast and assembled at much more stable. A number of features Te market has been growing consistently the site. Te site for pre casting work is an have been added & options made available and in an assured manner. Given the pace essential part of the Metro rail. One of the to enhance the versatility. As for geography, at which new projects are taking off & most used equipment is the crane- pick and it is pan India with application specifc works are being awarded, next two years carry cranes, slew cranes and truck cranes. customization available. look fairly promising. We are currently Truck mounted cranes are also finding focusing on afer sales support by adding use. As a company, give us a sense of the dealership outlets to minimize the response Escorts started with Hydra series cranes emphasis you place on R&D and & turnaround time. In a market where on the first metro rail in India. As the innovation? Provide the USP’s of your some of the best technologies & products construction processes got standardised, oferings vis-a-vis competition are competing, afer sales is going to be the safety of man and material became a non Escorts believes in leadership through diference. Te role of equipment fnance negotiable feature. Escorts was a part of technology. Tis helps us make application is as important as anything else. Escorts this up gradation with the TRX-Series specifc cranes. Over the past four decades has tied up with most of the leading banks becoming the preferred crane. In quick the range & variety of cranes supplied by and NBFCs for quick and easy availability time, the Hydra series & equivalent cranes Escorts is a testimony to our in house R&D of fnance, particularly for the frst time were disallowed for use at metro site. Te because these cranes have been developed buyers. demand for Escorts F-15 cranes shot up right from concept stage by Escorts. So with deployment at the work site as well much for our R&D. Future outlook for the industry and from as ‘ Casting Yard’ for handling all sorts of a company perspective. cement, steel, scafolding etc. Which are the metro projects in which you Te industry is peaking right now. Tese are are present, their current status, scope of the best times for all the players to position Any new products introduced in the work and cost, timeline for completion? themselves in the market place. Some of the market – and how have they been received? Escorts cranes remain the cranes of choice players will not be able to sustain the heat Tell us about the geographies/projects in for the EPC contractors as well as hirers. & may, as a result, bow out. We at Escorts which they are being targeted? Our cranes are deployed at each and have spent two years to make ourselves Buoyed by the success of F-15, Escorts every metro rail project which is under battle ready for the exiting/demanding days launched F-17 & F-20 cranes last year construction across India. Name a metro ahead. u APRIL 2017 |construction opportunities 69