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Says Mr. Anand Sundaresan, Managing Director, SCHWING Stetter India Pvt Ltd., “ The Indian Manufacturing Excellence Award is an acknowledgement for the care we take towards training and post-sale customer service. We are thrilled to bag this award and reinforce our pledge to better customer service and training.”

This training centre has got the facility of giving computer based training programmes with audio visual aids, full fledged technical library, cut model display area, cafeteria and locker facilities for the trainees. The training centre imparts primary and advanced courses on Operation & Maintenance, course on safety, machine owner course on SCHWING Stetter India products for deriving the best benefits out of SCHWING Stetter equipments by Operators, Maintenance Personnel, Supervisors and Managers of the customers. A training calendar is distributed to various customers in the beginning of the year and programs are conducted as per schedule.

Frost & Sullivan invited applications for India Manufacturing Excellence Awards’ 2005 and the companies which applied were asked to assess themselves on a 30-point checklist, which defined the business performance. Based on the self-assessed checklist and matrices, facilities were short listed for site visits. Each facility was assessed on Frost & Sullivan’s model by its globally trained assessors on 11 factors that capture excellence and are globally known to reflect facilities’ progress towards flexibility & leanness.

About SCHWING Stetter (India) Private Limited
Incorporated in June 1998, and commencing its manufacturing operations in 1999, SCHWING Stetter India is a 100% subsidiary of SCHWING Group of companies, a 600 million euro German Concrete machinery manufacturer. SCHWING Stetter manufactures equipment for concrete preparation, placement, transportation and recycling.

In November 2001 SCHWING Stetter India moved to its own, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at SIPCOT Industrial Park near Chennai, on a land measuring 45,000 Sqm. With demand for its products growing at a fast pace, SCHWING Stetter has doubled its present capacity with an investment of Rs 18 crores. SCHWING is planning to make India the hub for some of its product ranges.

SCHWING Stetter (India) Private Limited, manufactures computer controlled concrete batching plants, transit mixers, concrete pumps and concrete placing booms. It caters to the needs of infrastructure developers and also acts as an OEM supplier to various cement companies who offer Ready Mix Concrete.

SCHWING has its manufacturing units in 8 countries including Germany, Austria, USA, Brazil, Russia, China and India, sales and service centres in France, Netherlands, Austria, Czech Republic, Sweden and Korea as well as representations in more than 125 countries worldwide.

For more details, contact:
John Ashok / Sriram Govindarajan
Tel: 52144890 / 91 / 92