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The “Concrete Pump Operator” and “Batching Plant Operator” certificate courses are part of the Skill Development Initiative (SDI) by CII Southern Region, to improve the employability of the economically backward population, especially youth. This initiative would also provide the industry in South India with skilled / trained manpower, to meet the industry’s ever growing need of skilled manpower. These courses would be ideal for fresh Polytechnic and ITI pass outs.

Speaking on the association with SSIPL, Mr. Parasuraman, Chairman CII - Southern Region, said, “CII works in partnership with the private sector and Government agencies to train manpower in skills development. CII is targeting to skill around 5000 people by the end of this year on various trades, and make them employable.” The program will include delivery of locally relevant and internationally benchmarked ‘practical skills’ training.

Mr. Anand Sundaresan, Managing Director, SSIPL., said, “We are thankful to CII and CITY & Guild (UK) for partnering with us in offering these courses. Being a major player in the Readymix Concrete Equipment industry, we strongly believe in enhancing the skill and knowledge of the people working on our equipments. This course will certainly ensure that the equipments are handled in the right way thereby decreasing the down time and increasing the equipment availability.”

Schwing Stetter India, incorporated in 1999 has already put in the market more than 500 Batching Plants and 1000 Concrete pumps and 3000 truck mixers besides various imported equipments from their group companies in Germany and Brazil. With these numbers expected to grow in a geometric proportion in the next 10 years, Schwing Stetter India has geared up by investing over Rs.3 crores for developing the infrastructure required to enhance the skillsets of its equipments operators.

SCHWING Stetter India would dedicate their integrated 13,000 Sq.ft. facility that comprises of two air conditioned lecture halls equipped with latest audio – visual aids, technical library and working models laboratory for the courses. The Service Centre for hands-on-training and Spare Parts Depot are also located in the same facility adjacent to SSIPL factory in Sipcot Industrial Park near Sriperumpudur. The training department of Schwing Stetter has two faculties with software and animation content development team.

The world class training facility of SCHWING Stetter received appreciation from many quarters. Schwing Stetter India recently also bagged “The India Manufacturing Excellence Award for the year 2005”, for the Best Customer Training Service offered from Forst & Sullivan, USA.

Speaking on the occassion, Mr. V. G. Sakthi Kumar, Vice President- Marketing, SCHWING Stetter India Pvt. Ltd., said, “We have been training our customers on the usage of our equipments since our inception. With the infrastructure boom all set in place we believe that the demand for these operators will increase in the days to come. Our training centre is fully geared to meet this demand and our customers will also benefit from this venture through improved efficiency and expertise of their own work force.”
About SCHWING Stetter (India) Private Limited (SSIPL)
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 for transporting readymade concrete to construction sites, 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.

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