Saji Thomas, GM – PLM & Application Engineering, Gates India Pvt Ltd
Tell us about the scope of the hydraulic hose market in India. As we know, India is going to become the popular manufacturing hub for the world. Many foreign organizations are planning to set up a manufacturing plant in India
Tell us about the scope of the hydraulic hose market in India.
As we know, India is going to become the popular manufacturing hub for the world. Many foreign organizations are planning to set up a manufacturing plant in India in Construction Equipment, machine tools, mining equipment’s, process industry etc.
New manufacturing facilities and new equipment’s with hydraulic systems in market is creating huge opportunity for hydraulic product manufacturer. Obviously, Hose is one of them
Also, as declared by Government of India, there will be 100 Lac Cr. INR investment in upcoming years which will increase the demand of off high way equipment and hose market.
Last but not the least, “Atmanirbhar Bharat” scheme bought by Government of India will increase the hose requirement in India.
How has the current pandemic situation impacted the demand-supply scenario of hydraulic hose?
Due to COVID 19 the demand is impacted as due to lockdown most of the manufacturing units were closed. The construction equipment units were impacted the most. The mining was working and hence the mining application equipment was having certain demands in lockdown periods too Due to labor issues the infra sector is also impacted and still it has not come back to the normal pace With unlock India the demand is increasing now and hopefully in 4th quarter of the year the market will take required pace.
We would like to know about the innovative product developments in the hydraulic hose market.
Gates believes in extending the boundaries of Materials science. Gates has developed innovative MXT, Multimaster and MXG hoses which are not only compact but can be used for multiple applications.
These hoses helps designer to standardize the part, planner to keep minimum inventory, logistics to reduce the transport cost and operator to ease the routing due to lower force to bend
Such innovative helps end user in replacement market for easy availability of required hose since a single hose is meeting multiple standards. This reduces the downtime of machine and improves productivity
What kind of R & D do you undertake to stay ahead of competition?
Gates is a Market leader and always played this role very strongly. Gates always believes in innovation and set a benchmark in product specs and features which others follows
Gates believes in extending the materials science further to optimize the product design and pull out best of performances out of it
Most of the products just not meet the industry standards but exceeds it. Also, Gates products meets multi industry standard which enable the designer to standardize, compact and reliable design. It helps planner to maintain minimum inventory and to operator the easier assembly
Any additional information that would add value is welcome.
In addition, Gates provides best in class technical support, application support. Also the market reach is extended to the root of market through thoroughly trained, experienced distribution channel Gates is also providing the complete range of hose couplings for each hose. The crimp OD is validated with the hose for each hose sie pertaining to particular hose family.
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