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Chamber of Comemrce focuses on India
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01-2007/1880
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Source: Rheinische Post Local News, Germany
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Wednesday 31st Jan.2007 - by Michael Brцcker
IHK focuses onf India
Gьnter Naasner, CEO of the Kempen based Richter Chemie-Technik concluded in one sentence: "International production companies must go India." Naasner travelled for nine days with 23 entrepreneurs the sub-continent, amongst them the Mцnchengladbach based textile producer Kurt Beines. IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein (CHamber Lower Rhine Area) lead the economical delegation to India together with the Rhine-County Neuss. They visited Delhi, Bombay or Hyderabad.
The main place for IT and machine building Bangalore in the south of the sub-continent was not considered when planning the tour. "The market there has already been saturated", so the announcement of the IHK. Yet the Governor of Rhine-County Neuss, Dieter Patt and County ERconomical Dep. CEO Jьrgen Steinmetz visited the six-million metropolis where they inaugurated the German-Indian Technology Iinstitute (IGIT) at Visveswaraiah Technology University (VTU).
The co-founder of the institute, Gladbach based entrepreneur Achim Schulz (Diamant Metallplastic) is to strengthen the transfer of technologies and sciences between India and Germany and to test products. IHK-President Wilhelm Werhahn took a positive stock of the trip. "The largest democratic market economy is developing with high speed. That is why German enterprises have to be there" They discussed with Indian representatives of industries and visited also German companies like DHL, Klaus Union und Meissner Zander (the entrepreneurs paid 3,000 Euro for this trip).
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