The Hindu Business Line : Chinese co opens liaison office

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The liaison/after-sales service centres will have five Chinese technicians from CTMTC, besides four Indian technical personnel.
The Coimbatore centre will take care of CTMTC's customers' needs across the country; another service centre at Ludhiana will be opened soon

Coimbatore , March 2

China's state-owned China Texmatech Company Ltd (CTMTC), the textile machinery marketing arm of the Hengtian group, has officially opened its liaison and post-sales service centres here.

The opening of the CTMTC's liaision office and service centre was attended by top officials of the CTMTC and the China textile industrial corporation for foreign economic and technical cooperation (TEXIC), including its President and Chief Executive Officer, Ms He Fengxian.

This is the first centre to be put up by a non-European textile machinery manufacturing group in the country. The Coimbatore liaison/after-sales service centres will have five Chinese technicians from CTMTC, besides four Indian technical personnel, who would be deployed for the post-sale services. The critical spares including the electronic components will be made available at the Coimbatore centre by this month end.

To start with the service centre will take care of the CTMTC's customers' needs across the country. Soon, the Chinese company is expected to start another service centre at Ludhiana to cater to the customers in the North.

Among the representatives of the Indian textile industries present at the inauguration were the Chairman of the cotton Textile Export Promotion Council (Texprocil), Mr B.K. Patodia, the Director of the KG group, Mr Srihari, an executive of Ramco group (textile division) Mr Madhavan, the Deputy Chairman of Texprocil, Mr Prem Mallik, besides the members of the South India Small Spinners Association (Sisspa).

Ms Fengxian said the CTMTC had already made some deliveries to Indian buyers. Touching upon the domestic industry's viewpoints on quality, pricing and service expectations from the Chinese suppliers, Mr Patodia said that to build long-term business, an appropriate pricing policy was imperative.

SIMA-Texprocil delegation that toured China had detailed discussion with CTMTC covering quality and precision of the machines supplied.

Mr Patodia said that to meet Indian textile industry needs the Chinese machinery company should be flexible to incorporate the technical changes needed by the users here. "It will be in the interest of the CTMTC, that it should enter into tie-ups with local vendors for stores and spares. Similarly, there is a strong feeling that the prices of Chinese textile machinery for the Indian market should be in parity with the prices of the Chinese machines exported to other countries."

Mr Ye Maoxin, Director of Jingwei Textile Machinery Company Ltd, said unlike the machines they supplied to Pakistan, the specifications in the machinery sought by the Indian clients are stiffer.

"While the basic price for the Chinese machines is the same, the pricing does differ based on the configuration and specifications demanded by customers," he said.

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