The Hindu Business Line : Intex to manufacture DVD players

New Delhi, June 27 The Delhi-based IT hardware, mobile phone and electronics company, Intex Technologies India, is planning to start manufacturing DVD players in India, and is also scouting for technical collaboration to virtually double its existing manufacturing capacity for audio products.

“We are planning to start manufacturing DVD players in the second quarter of the current financial year. We will start with 10,000 units a month and scale that to 50,000 units a month. Manufacturing the product in India would give us the flexibility to introduce new models quickly and also bring down the inventory levels,” Mr Ramesh A Vaswani, Executive Vice-Chairman, Intex Technologies India, said.

The company currently procures DVD players from vendors in China and India, where it has entered into sub-contracting alliances.

Audio products

Mr Vaswani said that Intex Technologies was also open to a technical collaboration or a joint venture for manufacturing of audio products such as speakers, computer multimedia sub-woofers and home theatre systems.

“Although we are currently manufacturing products such as sub-woofers and speakers at capacities of 50,000 units a month, a technical collaboration would allow us to scale up our current capacities. Joining hands with a company that has technology and expertise in audio systems would allow us to achieve cost effectiveness, and also result in better quality,” he pointed out.

“We may look collaboration with a foreign partner. There are niche players in the audio market in Europe, Japan and China. A technical collaboration or even a joint venture will enable us to more than double our current capacity in audio products,” Mr Vaswani added.

Intex has two manufacturing units located at Jammu and Himachal Pradesh, producing desktops, multimedia speakers, PCBs and SMPS, amongst others. Its existing production run rate for desktops is 5,000 units a month, while for sub-woofers the capacity stands at 50,000 units a month.

UPS manufacturing

Intex is also planning to start UPS manufacturing in India. “At present, we procure UPSs from China where we have sub-contracting alliances. We plan to bring our new India manufactured UPS to the market in about three months’ time,” Mr Vaswani pointed out.

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