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interaction COVER STORY Powered by Our machines are the most innovated, user friendly and usable on all job sites around the world Putzmeister has been churning out top notch quality Concrete Equipment that have been specially innovated and designed for the rough conditions presiding in India. The company has supported several metro rail projects and has recently launched a full range of specialist tunnelling equipment which will be deployed in various tunnelling and metro projects around India and Nepal this year. WILFRIED THEISSEN, MD, PUTZMEISTER CONCRETE MACHINES spoke to CONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITIES on his company’s product offerings to Metro Rail projects. Could you brief us on your range of most innovated, user friendly and usable on Provide us a brief idea of the existing product or solutions and their applications all job sites around the world. We provide market opportunities and your strategy in the metro rail space? best service and afer sales support to our to tap those going forward? PM has a full range of products to support customers. Te current central government is putting Metro projects. It starts with our robust a lot of focus on the infrastructure and extremely precise and reliable batching Which are the metro projects in which you developments but mainly on roads. Ports, plants, followed by various levels of our are present, their current status, scope of airports, railways, power plants, dams… environmentally friendly stationary work and cost, timeline for completion? are still lacking behind. Also the real estate concrete pumps with a horizontal pumping Our equipment is used in all the Metro market is a bit in a crisis and demonetization capability of more than 2-3 km, our agile projects around India, from Mumbai to has not helped at all. However we are very and fexible truck mounted pumps with a 3 Delhi, from Calcutta to Hyderabad. Some confdent that the market will pick up in all dimensional reach of up to 75 m and fnishes are in the last phase of fnishing and some segments by late 2017 beginning of 2018. with our special tunnelling equipment to do like the new Mumbai lines are just starting. the concrete fnishing and lining in extreme Please share with us a Case Study of one conditions. What are the opportunities you are of your metro rail projects, the challenges seeking in the metro space going forward? faced and how you overcame them. Any new products introduced in the Tell us of the metro projects in which you At the frst metro project in Mumbai the market – and how have they been received? are looking to contribute? contractor had a difcult time reaching Tell us about the geographies/projects in As I mentioned previously Putzmeister level -1 with his conventional equipment. which they are being targeted? equipment are in high demand because Te very fexible Z and ZR fold of our truck We introduced last year our full range they perfectly ft the need of our customers mounted boom pumps allowed him fnally of specialist tunnelling equipment and to realize and fnish the metro projects in to crack the nut. We went down vertically they will be deployed this year on various a qualitatively, cost effective and timely for about 8 m and then de folded the rest tunnelling and metro projects around India manner. of the arm package horizontally into the and Nepal. tunnel so that we could bring the concrete Give us an understanding of your right there were it was needed. As a company, give us a sense of the manufacturing facilities, locations, and emphasis you place on R&D and their capacities to support various metro Future outlook for the industry and from innovation? Provide the USP’s of your rail projects? a company perspective. oferings vis-a-vis competition. Our state of the art manufacturing facility As I mentioned earlier the future for the PM has R&D department in Germany, in GOA can cope with the current and Indian construction industry looks bright. US and India. We continuously adapt our future demands. We have a very fexible Let’s hope that the goal post will not be equipment to the need and requirement of production organization and can double our changed again and disrupt the current the local markets. Our machines are the capacity within a time frame of 2 month. positive trend. u 70 construction opportunities|aPrIL 2017