T R Gopalan, Regional Director, Indo-German Chamber of Commerce, mentioned increasing investments from Germany in Tamil Nadu. With the reputation of Germany in engineering excellence there is increasing interest in hi-tech companies setting up manufacturing facilities in Tamil Nadu.
The latest is Witzenmann India that opened its production facility at Chromepet. The company is a specialist manufacturer of decoupling elements for cars and commercial vehicles. Vaidyanathan Chandrasekhar, President & CEO, mentioned that in the last ten years the company has manufactured more than ten million such components. The company expands the facilities to serve industrial and rail transport sectors as well. The ability of the company to customise engineering to the needs of the market is among its strengths.
Witzenmann India has two units at Kolkata and Chennai. Vaidyanathan mentioned expansion to include production of liners and hydraulic bellows. Witzenmann group is a leading manufacturer of flexible metal tubes, expansion joints, metal bellows and automotive components. It has 24 companies in 24 countries and employs over 4300.
