Interviews

- The Electrical India Content Team Tell us about your international business. Talk about the challenges? HPL has managed to route its presence abroad by...

"We have been a highly successful exporter of electrical goods and components for more than 25 years now," shares Kanderp Khandwala, CMD, Axis Electrical Components (I) Pvt. Ltd.

"We are focusing on tomorrow’s progress today because we see a lot of modernisation required in the utility sector," says Manish Patel, GM - Business Development, Apar Industries Ltd. (UNIFLEX Cables)

"We would continue to target and remain a leader in the domestic industry with a market share of 25% or higher, as well as establish our footprints in Bangladesh, Nepal and South-East Asia," Amit Kumar, VP & Head - Metering & Protection Systems, L&T Electrical & Automation.

"We are a company which produces test and measuring products, which are very difficult to manufacture or design but easy to use," shares Sanjay Kulkarni, Chairman, SCOPE T&M.

"To achieve the target of USD 5 trillion economy, India shall be requiring multiple time energy and power requirements as such Elektrolites shall be adding more smart products to meet the requirement," shares Anil Saboo, Chairman, ELECRAMA-2020 and CMD, Elektrolites (Power) Pvt. Ltd.

"The Fuji Electric India 2.0 plan envisages the revenues from the India market to reach Rs 1,500 crore by the year 2023-24," Sriram Ramakrishnan, Managing Director, Fuji Electric India.

Beckhoff focuses on technology promotion and ensures end-customer benefits form the new automation technology for profitability of his business - Ajey Phatak, Head Marketing, Beckhoff Automation Pvt Ltd

"With L&T’s E&A division, India will become one of the key innovations and manufacturing hubs for Schneider Electric, globally," Anil Chaudhry, Zone President & Managing Director, Schneider Electric India.

"Future seems to be very promising as well as challenging. In 2020, we are further approaching for implementation of new version of ISO/IEC 17025 and testing facilities to meet the requirement of newly amended IS 335: 2018," says Narinder Kumar, Founder, Ktec Oil Laboratories.

The foremost concern is the financial sustainability of the sector itself because there is a lot of outstanding payments of generating companies pending with state DISCOMs. Sanjiv Nandan Sahai, Secretary, Ministry of Power.

As electricity is core for all developments, therefore without distribution reforms in respect of market conditions, desired economic development may not be achieved. Manoj Kumar Upadhyay, Deputy Adviser (Energy & International Cooperation Vertical), NITI Aayog.

On the sidelines of the ABB Electrification Media Day event held in Bergamo, Italy, Tarak Mehta, President - Electrification business, ABB speaks to Subhajit Roy and highlights the trends that will drive the company’s electrification business in India.

The Deming Prize is an award that carries great prestige in the industry sector. It is considered as the last word in the world on ‘total quality management”. Of late, the Electrical Standard Products (ESP) business unit and the New Product Development (NPD) function of L&T Electrical & Automation (E&A) have been awarded with this prestigious prize. Dr. Hasit Joshipura, Member – Executive Committee, Larsen & Toubro and Senior Vice President & Head of L&T E&A and Mr. Girish Tiwari, Vice President & Head - Electrical Standard Products at L&T E&A talk to us about this achievement and give us an insight into the company’s roadmap - Subhajit Roy, Group Editor

The large-scale manufactures are not immediately affected due to their greater exposure to the import markets and Birla Copper has been able to meet their demand. Shreegopal Kabra, MD and Group President, RR Global