(1888PressRelease)
February 11, 2009 - CHENNAI, India — SEW-EURODRIVE India Private Limited, a world leader in the Drive Engineering and Drive Automation Technology business, today inaugurated their 80,000 sq ft world-class, state-of-the-art assembly plant, spread across 4 acres of land at Sriperumbudur in Chennai. The new assembly plant is the first ‘Green’ plant in the Indian Drive Industry.
The inauguration ceremony was commemorated by Mr. Rainer Blickle, President and Managing Partner, SEW Group and Mr. Hans Sondermann, Managing Director - Global Sales & Marketing along with Mr. M J Abraham, Chief Executive Officer, SEW-EURODRIVE India.
“Reliability, productivity and energy efficiency are going to be increasingly important themes for Indian industry and we foresee growing demand for the solutions we deliver on these themes through our products and services. Our strong growth over the last few years left us short on capacity and we have responded by doubling at our existing location in Vadodara as well as setting up this new assembly plant in Chennai.” M J Abraham stated. He also added, “A plant each in our key Western and Southern markets with full service capability for our Geared-motor, Frequency Inverter and Industrial Gearbox product lines, allied with our direct sales and service network covering 16 cities gives us the capability to address our customer needs locally and effectively”.
SEW-EURODRIVE India Private Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of the 1.8 Billion Euro, German, family owned, multinational SEW-EURODRIVE GmbH and Co KG, a world leader in drive engineering and drive automation solutions.
About SEW-EURODRIVE INDIA Private Limited
SEW-EURODRIVE India Private Limited was set up in 1997 with a sales office in Delhi. In 2000, SEW-EURODRIVE India went to Vadodara to set up their first assembly plant. The beginning was small with about 35,000 sq feet of shop-floor area and 9 employees. At the core of the business is the geared motor which provides motion in thousands of applications across the industry and this was the first product which was assembled in India, though with a limited range.
SEW India has grown steadily as a company and as a team, and over time have aligned themselves firmly with the value proposition that the SEW brand stands for worldwide and gained recognition as stalwarts in the field of drive engineering and motion control solutions and serving a wide variety of industry segments like Construction, Automotive, Textile, Food and Beverage, Port & Logistics, Steel, Cement, Chemicals, Rubber and Pharmaceuticals.
About SEW-EURODRIVE
SEW-EURODRIVE GmbH and Co KG is a family owned, 1.8 Billion Euro, German company founded 77 years ago with over 13,000 employees worldwide. Over the course of these 77 years, the company has achieved and maintained a leadership position in the field of drive engineering and drive automation solutions, a position achieved on the basis of a continuously evolving and technologically advanced product range, world class manufacturing facilities, a deep understanding of customer needs in diverse segments and a far flung network of assembly plants and sales and service locations to service the needs of their customers right where they are located.
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