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cent challenges, the resilience and Guru Prasath KR, Executive bition on welding and cutting,
demonstrated by the industry, Director – Trade Fairs. from IMTEX FORMING 2024 on-
its current stable state, and Raghavan, in his welcome ad- wards at BIEC. In this backdrop,
the opportunities that await dress, shared that the Indian Guru Prasath KR, Executive The Indian
us in the global scheme of Machine Tool industry is on a Director, Trade Fairs, IMTMA, Machine Tool
things, set an encouraging tone recovery path from the pan- shared, “The ecosystem of the industry is
on a recovery
for the event. demic-induced setbacks and re- Welding industry is used by path from the
The exhibition was inaugurat- vealed that its production is to the metal forming community. pandemic-
ed in the presence of the Guests reach around `9,500 – `10,000 This MoU will facilitate direct induced
of Honor Shri Ashwathnarayan crore in the year 2022-23. IMT- interaction between them, ben- setbacks
CN, Hon’ble Minister of Higher MA and the industry are work- efitting both industries.” and its
production
Education, IT & BT, Science and ing towards improving the is to reach
Technology and Skill Develop- domestic market share from Live demo on Industry 4.0 around
ment, Government of Karna- 50 percent to 65 percent in the concepts `9,500 –
taka; Dr K Sivan, Dr. Vikram next few years. Keeping up with the indus- `10,000
Sarabhai Distinguished Profes- try trends, IMTMA organized crore in
the year
sor & Former Chairman, ISRO; Together to grow a live demo on Industry 4.0 as 2022-23.
Ravi Raghavan, President, IMT- IMTMA and Indian Institute of part of IMTEX FORMING 2022
MA; Rajendra Rajamane, Vice Welding (IIW), Pune, signed an at its Technology Centre. A
President, IMTMA; PJ Mohan- agreement at the event to jointly model smart factory was set up
ram, Principal Advisor, IMTMA; organize WELDEXPO, an exhi- where a CNC turning center, a

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