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in the construction and concreting arena, which has facilitated manufacturing facilities in Tamil Nadu. 4 of our manufacturing
our ability to retain our customers who continue to prefer SCHWING facilities are located in SIPCOT industrial estate. And the most
products to be deployed in any upcoming or ongoing projects. recent addition to our manufacturing facility range is the GmH INTERACTION
(Global manufacturing Hub) located at Cheyyar, Kancheepuram,
Please provide details on your emphasis on technology, Tamil Nadu, a 55-acre facility with the capacity to produce 9000
research, design and innovation? What is your focus on Self-loading Mixers per annum and other equipment like Boom
technological up gradation in respect of your products? pumps, Stationary pumps, and Shotcrete pumps.
What are the advancements you have introduced or plan to Our facility titled F71 is assigned for XCMG product Assembly Line,
introduce. D6 is the manufacturing facility for Truck mixers with a production
SCHWING Stetter India has recently added 14 new products rate of 3500 nos per annum, G12 is dedicated manufacturing
to the concreting and construction equipment range. Our Batching plants of various capacities with a production rate of 700
new launches are packed with features like IoT, Cloud data nos per annum and F75 is assigned for the Assembly of XCMG
integration, increased ergonomics, and much more. SCHWING Sub assemblies.
is also an exporter of product designs with the support of our
design department inducted into our R&D wing. With experienced Your strategy in this price sensitive market. To what extent is
professionals working round-the-clock on various projects, we are consumer behavior influenced by cost?
always in the process of developing customized and updated The current market trends are price sensitive as operating costs of
machines to the market in the future as we have done in the past. construction and concreting machinery have increased majorly
due to the hike in fuel prices. Price increase of steel and freight
Briefly give us an understanding about your manufacturing units charges are some backend issues we must tackle in reducing the
– location, size, production capacity, technologies used etc? price of our machines. SCHWING Stetter India’s solution to these
SCHWING Stetter India has established its presence in India problems has been the recently launched machine range which
from 1998 and is now on the verge of completing 25 years of assures higher output capacity, economical fuel consumption
successful operation in the India CE industry. We opened our and decreased logistic costs. With this product range we are able
first manufacturing facility in 2001 at SIPCOT industrial estate, to facilitate a working environment that has higher productivity
Irungattukottai, Tamil Nadu and we now possess a total of 5 rates at lesser operating costs for our customers.

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