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01-21-2011, 03:20

BANGALORE: Local machine tool companies are finding themselves underequipped to deal with surging industry demand. This means that 70% of the demand is met by imports from countries such as Germany and china, and the industry acknowledges that unless swift measures are taken this trend could further strengthen. With India's GDP growing at close to 9%, the demand for machine tools is expected to multiply from a number of industries including auto, general engineering, energy, railways and defence. According to Shailesh Sheth, chairman of the programme committee of the Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association (IMTMA), the Indian www.autodcmotors.com (http://www.autodcmotors.com) machine tool industry saw a 25% CAGR growth over the last few years. "This is estimated to grow 50-100% over the next few years. But the capacity of local players is not enough to meet these demands," he said. The auto sector accounts for 60% of machine tool demand in the country. Auto Component Manufacturers Association ( ACMA) estimates India will sell 2.7 million cars, 12.5 million two wheelers and 0.5 million commercial vehicles (CVs) in 2010-11. This will grow exponentially to 10 million cars, www.abearings.com (http://www.abearings.com) 30 million two wheelers and 2.2 million CVs by 2020. This means that auto component manufacturers will have to invest $2 billion every year, and machine tool operators in the country will have to ramp up capacity by 7-8 times to meet that demand. The local machine tool players do not have the financial wherewithal to make such levels of investments. Around 60% of the sector consists of small unorganized players. The remaining 40% includes bigger organized players like HMT, Premier and Ace Micromatic. The current size of the machine tool industry stands at Rs 9,000 crore and IMTMA forecasts this to increase to Rs 23,000 crore by 2020. Indian machine tool firms are also qualitatively unable to match the demands of the industry. "Most of the current local production caters to the lower end of the value chain and mainly to the auto component sector. Progressively we are seeing an increase in demand for more hi-technology products which are being met primarily through imports," said Jamshyd N Godrej, Chairman-Exhibitions of IMTMA, at the metal-cutting and machine tool exhibition IMTEX 2011 currently on in Bangalore. Arun Maira, member of the Planning Commission, said countries such as Germany, South Korea, Japan, and now China, which have become significant players in the machine tool industry, developed their capabilities through heavy investments in R&D and manpower training. "In India as well we need to invest in these areas as there is a huge shortage of innovation as well as engineering talent," he said. New capacities emerging Companies such as Premier have begun increasing manufacturing and R&D capacity. "We have invested around Rs 120 crore over the last couple of years and are currently scouting for additional land to expand our capacity in Pune. We are also setting up a new R&D facility in Bangalore and moving into new product lines," said Maitreya Doshi, CMD of Premier. Foreign direct investment (FDI) has also been flowing in with companies like Germany's StarragHeckert recently announcing the setting up of a factory at Bangalore to build WMW machining centres. Walter Borsch, executive VP-operations, said the greenfield manufacturing facility would entail a Rs 50 crore investment. Products are expected to start rolling out in the next 24 months. German group Gildemeister and Japanese group www.machining-tooling.com (http://www.machining-tooling.com) Mori Seiki are expanding their presence in India by jointly investing in a new technology centre. The IMTMA is encouraging joint ventures between Indian and foreign technology majors. It is also lobbying with the government for setting up a Rs 2,000 crore corpus to support the sector as well as for the establishment of regional machine tool clusters in Punjab, Gujarat, Pune, Belgaum and Coimbatore, all of which have a significant machine tool industry presence.