IMTMA Celebrates 50 Years IMTEX at ‘IMTEX 2019 & Tooltech 2019’ in BIEC
Mumbai, 25th January, 2019:
Nineteenth edition of IMTEX exhibition, ‘IMTEX 2019’ and twenty-first edition
of Tooltech ‘Tooltech 2019’ organized by Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers’
Association (IMTMA) was inaugurated today at Bangalore International Exhibition
Centre (BIEC), Bengaluru. This is the largest IMTEX ever and IMTMA is celebrating
50 years of IMTEX.
The exhibition was inaugurated by Shri H.D.
Kumaraswamy, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri R.V. Deshpande, Minister
for Revenue, Government of Karnataka, Shri K.J. George, Minister for Large
& Medium Scale Industries, Government of Karnataka, Vikram Kirloskar, Vice
President, Confederation of Indian Industry, and Ram Venkataramani, President,
Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India. Jamshyd N. Godrej,
Chairman, Exhibitions - IMTMA, P. Ramadas, President, IMTMA, Indradev Babu,
Vice President, IMTMA and V. Anbu, Director General & CEO, IMTMA were also
present at the inauguration.
In his welcome speech Mr. Godrej said,
“IMTEX creates a welcoming environment to everyone who comes to the exhibition.
It shows industry in a different light and IMTEX is an expression of showing a
new India and what its industry is capable of.”
Shri Kumaraswamy recollected that IMTEX had
entered Bengaluru 12 years ago and he had the privilege of inaugurating the
show and opening BIEC. “The exhibition has been a gateway for attracting
investments in Karnataka since then,” he added. Shri Kumaraswamy also said that
Bengaluru was historically a manufacturing hub and is making its mark as a
startup and biotech hub as well. “To give impetus to aerospace vertical
Karnataka has announced an aerospace policy that has identified investment
potential of around 10 billion dollars in the sector during 2013-2023 which is
expected to give a boost to the manufacturing industry in Karnataka.
Shri R.V. Deshpande said, “Karnataka has
always laid out a red carpet to investors wanting to do business in the state. The
state has a pro-industry policy, which has helped industries to thrive.”
Supporting Shri Deshpande’s views Shri K.J.
George said that the state has been in the forefront of many ventures such as setting
up the world’s largest solar park, launching booster kit for start-ups, setting
up an exclusive machine tool park, etc. He called upon the manufacturing industry
to do their business in the state including their capacity expansions.
CII Vice President Vikram Kirloskar said
that exhibitions will never become obsolete as machines will always be required
in the manufacturing industry. Technologies are needed to enhance productivity.
Large-scale exhibitions such as IMTEX will provide all this in one place.
ACMA President Venkataramani said that ACMA
and IMTMA will continue to work to understand and provide solutions to ever
growing demands of the auto component industry.
Marking 50 years celebration, IMTMA has
planned a series of activities as part of the show including several new
initiatives all of which will be unravelled in the week from 24th
January to 30th January 2019.
Celebrating Five Decades of Excellence
Celebrating 50
years of IMTEX, IMTMA has set up an Experience Zone adjacent to Hall 4 in BIEC.
The experience zone is a collection of IMTEX archives including display of
vintage machines from a bygone era, pictures and a short film of IMTEX journey.
Celebrating the
Golden Jubilee of IMTEX, IMTMA is releasing a Coffee Table book at Hotel Taj
Westend in Bengaluru on 25th January 2019. The coffee table book
captures the ethos of IMTEX and traces its growth over a timeframe of 50 years
since 1969. IMTEX 2019 is also featuring two robots. The robots will move and
gesticulate, talk to people and answer their queries and move around in the
campus.
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