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Off-shore Development India campus will be biggest non-European centre, says EADS Our Bureau
Big plans The campus-style centre will host units of all its subsidiaries and those of Indian partners. Talks have been initiated with TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Satyam, QuEST, HCL. The Technology Centre will start with 100 local employees and increase it to 800 in three years.
Bangalore , Sept. 1 European aerospace and defence major EADS says its activities at the proposed India campus Technology Centre will be bigger and far more comprehensive than its other three non-European centres, according to its CEO, Dr Tom Enders. The campus-style centre — location for which is yet to be decided — will host units of all its subsidiaries and those of Indian partners. It will begin operations in the second quarter of 2007 and open fully in early 2008.
Potential partners
Talks have been initiated with TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Satyam, QuEST, HCL, Geometric, Infotech Enterprises among others for potential partnerships in software, engineering and design solutions. EADS, with a 2005 turnover of € 34 billion, expects its investments in the country to touch € 2 billion (around Rs 11,000 crore) over the next 15 years. For India, "We have adopted not a hit-and-run plan after getting business, but long-term win-win partnerships with Indian companies," Dr Enders told a news conference, at the end of his two-day Bangalore visit. The team is part of a visiting German delegation led by the Minister for Economic Affairs, Mr Michael Glos. The future focus would be on co-development, co-production in defence and space. Until now, the Indian business during 1994-2003 totalled € 365 million, mainly from Airbus and ATR aircraft sales. The Technology Centre will start with 100 local employees and increase it to 800 in three years and 2,000 in 10 years. An EADS India Outsourcing Centre based in Delhi and Bangalore will tap sub-contractors and become operational by this year-end. There will be an Airbus Engineering Centre, which will start operations by mid-2007. More than the cost benefit, EADS was looking at India for its professional skills that were becoming scarce back home. "This is the first time such a project of this size has been put up," said Mr Daniel Baubil, Head of Global Industrial Development. EADS, currently holding the heaviest order book in its domain, worth € 253.2 billion, aims to increase turnover from Asia-Pacific to 30 per cent of its total revenue, up from the present 23 per cent. It has engineering centres in the US, Russia, China, and a research centre in Singapore centres. The Indian activities would cover engineering, IT services, engineering design, technology publication and production, training of engineers and mechanics and much more. Its activities and services include the commercial Airbus aircraft, Eurocopter; commercial launchers; missiles; satellites and defence transportation. On the space front, the EADS-ISRO Antrix consortium jointly won two European satellite-building contracts. "In satellites we are No. 3 and are working hard to be No. 1," Dr Enders said.
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