MSMEs set to flock together in Bangalore for 'DefExpo'

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Bangalore: Defence gurus from Ordinance Factories, experts from Defence Public Sector Undertakings, specialists from the indigenous cells of Indian armed forces and technology practitioners from micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) are set to flock Bangalore during the first week of March. Amidst B-2-B sessions and handshakes, they will get rub shoulders with some of the inspiring names in India's defence and aerospace sector.
Choreographed by the Ministry of MSMEs and directed by the National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC), the second edition of 'MSME DEFEXPO 2012' has in the supporting role the Industries Department of Karnataka government. Close to 200 MSMEs from all over India, with half of them from Karnataka alone, will plug and play their vision on offsets in addition to exhibiting their strengths in the defence production.
In a telecon with Express from Delhi on Thursday, Udaya Kumar, Director, Planning and Marketing, NSIC, said that with the opening up of the defence sector, the MSMEs could strike gold making the right moves. "Today MSMEs have highly competitive production mandate with great flexibility, extensive diversity and lower cost of inputs. The global trends in knowledge, innovation, downsizing and networking have reduced the gap which had once separated large firms and MSMEs. Compared to the first expo in Hyderabad, the Bangalore one scheduled from March 2-4 will be one opportunity for MSMEs to hear from the masters in defence production," Udaya Kumar said.
Among the biggies to be present are Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SAAB and Dassault Aviation with Russia sending a high-level trade commission. "We have confirmations from over a dozen global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) so far," Udaya Kumar said. On March 3, KPMG is organising a day-long technical workshop covering a wide range of topics including, MRO, certification, opportunities with global OEMs among others.
The expo will also have a separate segment for homeland security – which has seen some explosive growth since the Mumbai terror attacks. "This will be one segment that will catch the attention considering India's decision to open up the homeland security market to private sector players. The decision has created yet another wind of opportunity for MSMEs," Uday said.

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So there are now two defence expos? Bangalore and in Delhi?
 
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Exhibition focuses on role of MSMEs in navy - The New Indian Express

On its third day, the Naval and Maritime Expo (Namexpo-2013), organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry, focused on major challenges faced by the Navy, the Coast Guard and MSMEs.

Commodore Aseem Anand, Principal Director, Directorate of Indigenisation; Cmde (retd) Mukesh Bhargava, vice-president, Larsen and Toubro; Deputy Inspector General T K Sathish Chandran, Commander Coast Guard (Kerala and Mahe); and Gurpal Singh, Principal Advisor, Confederation of Indian Industries, were among those who spoke on the role of MSMEs in the Indian Naval and maritime sector.

Colonel (retd) KV Kuber, Senior Advisor, NSIC, highlighted the need for the maritime sector to depend on MSMEs for the procurement of indigenous components.

Commodore Gautam Nath, Joint Director, Directorate of Indigenisation, Indian Navy, pointed out that while 'floating' and 'moving' components of the ships use 90 per cent and 60 per cent, respectively, of indigenous content, 'fighting' components include 30 per cent indigenous components.
 

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