Foundry Industry - Future Ahead. - Metalworld.co.in

Perspective
THESE INCLUDE-
1. Tata Motor Jamshedpur & Pune
2. Ennore Foundries Chennai
3. Hinduja Foundries Chennai
4. Amtek Auto Gurgaon
5. DCM Engineering Products Ropar
6. Mahindra Hinoday Ltd. Pune
7. Indian Smeltie & Refining co.Ltd. Pune &Mumbai
8. Shakti sugars Ltd. Combatore
9. Jayaswal’s Neco Ltd. Nagpur
10. Simplex Engineering Ltd. Bhilai & Raipur
11. Electro- steel casting Kolkata & Chennai
12. Steel cast Ltd Bhavnagar
13. Suzlon’s Foundry Coimbtore
14. Larson & toubro coimbatore & kansbahl
15. H.E.C. Ltd. Ranchi
And many more
melting units and produce grey iron f u l l y situations are main hurdles. To point
casting. Some units export municipal finished, ready to use engineering out a few are:
casting and machine parts made of part, auto-components etc., foundries 1. High capital cost of modern
grey iron. have been setting up apart from world g e n e r a t i o n m a n u f a c t u r i n g
KOLHAPUR: The foundries here class casting production facilities, a equipments.
started with production of oil engine modern CNC machining facilities as
2. High rate of interest on borrowings.
casting but have now upgraded well.
3. Ever escalating energy cost
t h e m s e l v e s t o c a t e r t o t h e To meet the quality demand in the
4. Industrial relations laws leading to
requirements of automotive, farm international market, a ultra- modern
poor performance and productivity.
equipment and engineering castings. manufacturing set up with high
There are around 250 foundries in and pressure molding line, modern cold- 5. Taxation policy.
around Kolhapur located at Kolhapur, box core shop, robotized fettling etc. 6. Infrastructure constraints in export
Sangli, Iccalkaranji and Hatkanagale. have started finding place in new business.
RAJKOT: There are about 300 generation foundries being upgraded 7. Fluctuating raw material supply and
foundry units at Rajkot located at Aji or being newly setup.
input cost.
Vasahat, Gondal Road and Bhavnagar Elaborate quality management system
WHAT IS COMING:
Road. These foundries, initially, and application of information
1. Industry has to upgrade to produce
started with diesel engine and pump technology for not only manufacturing
right quality first time and right
components and have now diversified m a n a g e m e n t b u t a l s o m e t a l
quality always.
to cater to a wide range of solidification and mold flow simulation
applications. With Tata’s NANO plant has started finding their application 2. Keen competition on pricing. The in
around, Rajkot foundries are poised to amongst new generation set up. efficiency in manufacturing can’t be
start manufacture of automotive
passed on to customer.
THE CONSTRAINTS
castings. In addition to these foundry
3. Top class quality and reliability
clusters, there are foundries located
Although the industry envisages steep casting has to be produced as product
near various steel plants and industrial
rise in demand for domestic as well as liability will be thrust upon very soon.
center. Further, Agra and Howrah
international consumption, certain Foundries will not be able to escape
have foundries producing large
volumes of municipal casting
for domestic as well as export
markets.
In additional to foundries
mentioned above, there are
large captive as well as jobbing
foundries.
THE TREND
Considering export potential of
Annexure - I Foundry Clusters & End - Use Markets.
S NO. USAGE \ CLUSTER Belgaum Coimbatore Batala/Jalandhar Kolhapur Rajkot
1 Atomotive 31% 4% 8% 42% 12%
2 Oil Engine - 42%
3 Pumps / Valves 21% 46% 10% 17% 7%
4 Electric Motors 10% 6% - - -
5 Farm Equipment/Agriculture 7% - 35+6% 4% -
6 Food Processing 5% 7% - - -
7 Textile Machinery - 6% - - 3%
8 Machine–Parts - - 33% - 15%
9 Sugar Machinery - - - 6% -
10 Others 26% 31% 8% 31% -
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June 2010