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India Weeks at the Lower Rhine Area
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11-2006/1868
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Source: Rheinische Post Local News, Germany
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Friday, 24th November 2006 --- by Michael Bröcker
India blossoms into an El Dorado for German industries while a large part of the industrial world is looking at China. German enterprises for chemicals, IT and machine building are attrackted by better legal conditions than in China as well as an undamped growth and a technologically oriented and nevertheless "favourable" groups of skilled labour.
In January, the Chamber of Commerce of Middle Lower Rhine Area invites 25 companies from the region for an entrepreneurs' trip to the economical top places like Kalkutta, Bombay, Pune and Hyderabad. 18 companies have applied so far, amongst them the Mönchengladbach based Kurt Beines GmbH. The programme comprises visits of German chemical companies like Wacker Chemicals, Arca or Klaus Union. Target: the companies shall make contacts and test probable market entries. "No other country in the world offers at the time being such excellent combinations of market growth and -volume, low salaries and a very good base of skilled labour", campaigns the Chamber.
Yet, the heart piece of Indian High-Tech-Industries, the Indian "Silicon Valley" Bangalore, was left out by the Chamber when planning their trip. "We concentrate on the centers with growth potentials", says Chamber-speaker Joachim Ludewig.
The Moenchengladbach based entrepreneur Achim Schulz, CEO of the Giesenkirchen Metal Surface Specialist Diamant values that differently. Nearly during the same time period he is planning a trip to Bangalore with enterprises, representatives of the RWTH Aachen and the university of applied sciences Niederrhein. New cooperation projects shall be discussed during the tour sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology between the universities and the Indo-German Technology Institute (IGIT) at the renowned University of Bangalore (VTU). Also visiting IMTEX, the machine tool exhibition, is planned.
Result: in January there are India-Weeks at the Lower Rhine Area.
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