Awards And Achievements

Mtlexs Successfully concluded its maiden event, Vision 2022 Non-Ferrous Metals Industry event, on April 25, 2015. MTLEXS’ maiden event VISION 2022 for NON-FERROUS METAL INDUSTRY on the theme “Make in India: How to foster Indian demand and supply” was unique in nature. It succeeded in bringing together all non ferrous metal industry leaders on one common platform to deliberate on issues affecting the sector and to explore opportunities and avenues under the government’s Make in India campaign. With very healthy attendance of over 150 participants, the event witnessed serious deliberations and achieved its envisaged goal in good measure.
 

Due to other pressing engagements, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra Shri Devendra Fadnavis and Hon’ble Minister of Industries, Government of Maharashtra, Shri Subhash Desai, could not be physically present at the inauguration function. However, the dignitaries marked their presence with their recorded video messages, whereby they wished the event a great success and showed eagerness to support any industry/cluster scheme that may be planned in Maharashtra.
 

The event was inaugurated at the hands of Chief Guest Mr. Panneerselvam, Principal Director – MSME, Technology Development Centre, Guest of Honour Mr. Tarvinder Singh Bhasin, Senior Vice Chairman – EEPC INDIA, and other distinguished guests Mr Ramesh Nair, Chairman Executive Officer, Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd, Mr S Nanda, Director (Operations), Hindustan Copper Ltd and Mr. B. Hariharan, Senior General Manager, Ordnance Factory Board, Ambernath, graced the inaugural session.
 

Mr. Panneerselvam, in his inaugural address, emphasized the need of forming aluminium/copper clusters in Maharashtra and assured full support of his office. He further stressed on the need to implement national manufacturing competiveness programme among MSME sector.
 

Mr. Tarvinder Singh Bhasin spoke about the 60 long years of services rendered by EEPC to the industry, and narrated how it has grown to it current status. He specially mentioned the tireless efforts of our Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi and India’s achievement overseas, especially in Europe which he witnessed at the Hannover Messe, Germany, recently.
 

In his keynote address, Mr. Ramesh Nair shared growth prospects for aluminium and advised to go for value-added activities to be competitive vis-à-visChina. He expressed his desire that the government should promote aluminium parks, and pointed out that the inverse duty structure was a major bottleneck to the Indian aluminium industry.
 

Mr. S Nanda touched upon importance of role renewable energy sector for growth and also said copper recycling has tremendous scope in India. He too indicated that the inverse duty structure was a major hindrance in the growth of the domestic copper industry.
 

Mr. B. Hariharan welcomed entrepreneurs to explore opportunities in the defence sector. He mentioned that the defence sector is ready to cooperate with Indian suppliers, as part of the national Make in India campaign. He mentioned that the defence ministry has set a target to double its capacity by 2018—an announcement that was cheerfully welcomed by all present. He however cautioned that defence has many stringent norms in respect of meeting quality requirements.
 

Mr. L. Pugazenthy and Prof. K S S Murthy, both emphasized on the need to work together to initiate R&D and initiate dialogue with the government to remove inverse duty anomalies. They provided many other valuable inputs for the industry to move forward in the “Make in India” direction.
 

There were about 150 participants from various companies including BHEL, Vedanta Ltd (formerly Sesa Sterlite), Siemens, Voltas, Indian Air Force, Nalco, Crompton Greaves, ASM Scrap, MTC Group, Janya Extrusions, Al-Mufaddal Impex, Morakhia Copper, Metal Gems, H.T. Makhijani & Associates, Arcotech, Shree Balaji Industries, Mehta Tubes, Bhoruka Aluminium, Economic Research India Ltd, Moulin Exports, etc.
 

Closing the session, Mr. Suneel Mardia expressed his satisfaction at the success of the event. Thanking all dignitaries and participants, he briefed how the platform can be utilized gainfully to deliberate on critical matters in the larger benefit of the non ferrous metal industry.
 

Following papers presented during the conference:
 

• Government Policies, Export Incentives and New Foreign Trade Policy; Mr. Tarvinder Singh Bhasin, Senior Vice Chairman – EEPC INDIA
• The Copper market in India; Mr. S Nanda, Director (Operations), Hindustan Copper Ltd
• Foreign Trade Policy 2015-20; Dr. Kavita Gupta, Additional Director General of Foreign Trade (IAS) – DGFT
• Export Scenario for Non Ferrous Metals Including Export incentives; Mr. Rajat Srivastava, Regional Director, EEPC India
• Government incentives for MSME Units/Cluster Scheme to promote growth in the Non-Ferrous metal sector; Mr. Pravin Joshi, Asst. Director – MSME, Technology Development Centre
• Future Prospects for Aluminium in India; Prof. K S S Murthy, General Secretary – Aluminium Association of India, Bangalore
• Zinc and Lead in India – A Macro View; Mr L. Pugazhenthy, Executive Director – India Lead Zinc Development Association (Committee member Ministry of science & Technology)
• How to increase demand for Copper in India; Mr. Sanjeev Ranjan, Managing Director – International Copper Association India
• Make In India and Mtlexs.com; Mr. Suneel Mardia, CEO & Mrs. Saloni Mardia Kothari, COO, Mtlexs, Mumbai
• Ecommerce potential in the Non Ferrous Metals Industry; Mr. Dushyant Dave, Founding Director, Puneet Advisory Services Pvt. Ltd. (IMC head of Private Equity Committee)
• Presentation on Excellence by Design: The Hindalco Way; Mr. P.R. Landge, Assistant Vice President, Hindalco Industries
• Indian Aluminium Rolled Products Industry : from Cars to Cans; Mr. Puneet Paliwal, Metal Analyst – CRU Analysis And Consulting (India) Private Ltd,
• Introduction to Indian Ordnance factories; Mr. Subhodeep Chowdhary, Ordnance Factory, Ambernath
 

Members participated actively in the panel discussion. Buyers representative—BHEL, Air Force and Defence—briefed on their requirements from non ferrous metal industry, and explained how to approach government departments, providing also an orientation to government procedures.
 

Some important points that crystallized from the various presentations and discussions, included:
 

• Formation of industrial clusters around primary producers
• Problems of high cost of capital faced by the industry
• Inverse duty structure hurting the non-ferrous metal industry
• Insufficient R&D for non-ferrous metals
• Urbanization in India implies big growth for India
 

MTLEXS showed willingness to get all the entities concerned to work together with India on top of the pyramid, then primary producers, fabricators, technology providers (associations) at the three corners and the customers in the center, work with each other and try to involve the government to work with MTLEXS, under the MAKE IN INDIA theme and dream to achieve and surpass a growth wave like CHINA.
 

Mr. Surendra Mardia, Chairman, MTLEXS, extended the vote of thanks.
 

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