Belgaum foundry cluster - vision to make Belgaum Foundry Industry World Class, Internationally competitive and Environment Friendly
10:02 AM Posted by ukmad
VISION: To make Belgaum Foundry Industry World Class, Internationally competitive and Environment Friendly.
MISSION: To provide World Class Infrastructure Facilities to the Foundry Units in and around Belgaum to make them competitive and achieve excellence of
performance.
Belgaum is known for its Foundry Industry. The Government of India, the Ministry of Commerce and Industries, has identified BELGAUM for creating a Cluster considering the potential of the Industry. The objective is to strengthen the existing infrastructure and to create additional infrastructure with a view to enhance efficiency, competitiveness, raise export capabilities and make the industry environment-friendly by reducing pollution.
This is being done to develop World Class Infrastructure under the special “INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADATION SCHEME “ [IIUS] of the 350 foundry units in Karnataka, one third units are located in Belgaum spread over six industrial estates producing 8000 tonnes of castings per month with export content of Rs.45 crores. The infrastructure bottlenecks and requirements of common facilities have hampered the proper and systematic growth of Foundry Industry in Belgaum. There is a potential for improving the quality of the product, making it cost effective and enhancing the competitiveness.
BELGAUM FOUNDRY CLUSTER is going to be the most prestigious and useful project for BELGAUM FOUNDRYMEN AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES.
OBJECTIVES of BFC:
1. To promote Green Environment through Pollution Control and Sand Reclamation.
2. To develop a Common Website for the easy reach of the Customers.
3. To introduce Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) package for the Cluster.
4. To provide required simulation software for foundries.
5. To create Training and Development facilities for Human Resource Development.
6. To enhance marketing effort by establishing International Marketing center and Display center.
7. To establish R & D laboratory and provide common quality testing.
8. To combine latest Technology and Human Skill for better performance.
9. To undertake any other activity incidental to the improvement of Quality of Foundry Industry and to make it internationally competitive.
10. Up gradation of Physical Infrastructure: This special purpose scheme will focus on improvement and asphalting of 27 Kms roads in all six industrial estates. The lighting of roads and tree plantation alongside the road and the construction of 1680 KLD capacity water tank with pump house will be undertaken.
11. Modern Communication & Information Center: The world-class communication center with convention hall, display center and installation of website giving details about foundry cluster and establishing global links.
12. Common Effluent Treatment Plant: Installation of Sand to plant to reclaim about 10,000 tons of sand every month protecting our natural resource and making our foundry industrial area environment friendly.
13. Common Testing laboratory: Equipped with Spectrometer, Co-ordinate measuring machine to produce quality products of Global Standards.
14. Common Tool Room Facility: The Cluster will have a Training Center to upgrade the knowledge of foundry men and allied industries. Vertical machining Center for pattern making and Software for 3D modeling and Simulation of castings to get first time right castings.
15. Marketing Effort: A product center, arrangement of frequent exhibitions, meeting place for customers and expert advice on marketing, particularly export marketing.
BELGAUM FOUNDRY CLUSTER
Survey No. 670 (Part), Special Plot No. 1, Stockyard, Angol Industrial Estate,
Udyambag, Belgaum –590 008
Phone: +91-831-2443392 Fax : +91-831-2443392 Mobile : +91-94484-97588
E-mail: Info@bfcindia.com
Belgaum Foundry industry in bad shape
5:28 PM Posted by ukmad
Belgaum is recognized to be a reliable source of high precision, high volume and
economical castings. A significant percentage (almost 20%) of the foundry units at Belgaum has ISO 9000 certification and export casting.
The foundry industry at Belgaum caters to a wide variety of end-use applications Automotive/oil engines Pumps/valves Tractors/agricultural implements Food processing industry. The foundry industry at Belgaum came up primarily to cater to the needs of the automobile industry at Pune.
The Belgaum foundry industry is the first in Karnataka and the third largest in Asia. The production has decreased by 30% in last month. 8000 tonnes production has now come down to 6000 tonnes.
There are about 135 foundries in the industrial belt. More than 9000 workers work in them. The foundry industry has been seeing a tough time; the raw material prices have gone up by a whopping 200%. The demand has slowed down due to the meltdown, inflation has hit them hard, and now the industrialists say they at least need more than a year to come back on track.
To top the pie of hardships for these industrialists, now HESCOM is undertaking power cuts, which is causing much more production loss and cost escalation.
To the 9000+ workers, an additional 4000+ are involved in this industry in form of transporters, porters etc. All are feared what will happen to them if the same situation continues.
In the recent month, the prices of raw materials have seen a downtrend globally, which is one ray of light in this darkness. Globally metal and Commodity driven stocks are taking a beating, it is the case with them in India also.
Source: Esakal.com , Indianfoundry.com
Belgaum foundry cluster to open
9:54 AM Posted by ukmad
Belgaum, a backbone for automobile industry and nerve centre for foundries in Karnataka, will soon have a foundry cluster. The work on the Belgaum Foundry Cluster (BFC) project started three years ago at an investment of close to Rs 25 crore, is nearing completion and is expected to be operational in August this year.
The project once completed will benefit 135 foundries and over 1,000 machine shops in and around Belgaum and hundreds of other units in the neighbouring towns of Hubli-Dharwad, Shimoga, Harihar and even Kolhapur, and Shinoli in Maharashtra, according to Manoj Kulkarni, chief executive officer, BFC.
The foundries from Belgaum are currently dependent on Bangalore and Pune for some of the high-end machining work. With the opening of this cluster they will make substantial savings in their production costs.
According to Kulkarni, foundry units at BFC are expected to produce 1.6 lakh tonnes of castings during the present fiscal, a growth of 60 per cent over 2007-08 and generate a combined revenue in excess of Rs 700 crore per annum, a growth of 75 per cent. The exports are expected to touch Rs 350 crore per annum, a growth of 700 per cent.
The foundry cluster is likely to generate employment to 12,000 persons, a growth of 50 per cent.
Belgaum, in north Karnataka is known for its foundry industry for decades. One third of the state's foundry units are located in six industrial estates of Belgaum. They produce 110,000 tonnes of castings per annum. However, the units were hit by the infrastructure bottlenecks and a lack of common facilities.
The project was sanctioned by the Union ministry of commerce under the Industrial Infrastructure Upgradation Scheme (IIUS) in 2003 for Rs 24.78 crore. While, the Centre sanctioned Rs 18.58 crore, the Karnataka government put in another Rs 2.49 crore while the balance is contributed by the user industries.
The objective is to strengthen the existing infrastructure and to create additional infrastructure with a view to enhance efficiency, competitiveness, raise export capabilities and make the industry environment-friendly by reducing pollution.
Under this project, a 34,000 sq ft building has been constructed at Udyambag Industrial Estate, which houses common tool room, testing laboratory, training centre, modern communication and information centre and a library. A convention centre has also been established. A new vertical machining centre for making patterns, spectrometer for conducting metal analysis and coordinate measuring machine have been installed.
The BFC has acquired five acres land on the outskirts of the city to build the common effluent treatment plant (ETP). The work on which is nearing completion. The sand reclamation plant is the first of its kind in the country as it will help reclaim 10,000 tonnes of waste sand per month. A modern sand reclamation machine has been imported from England and is being installed presently.
The cluster will also have modern software for 3D modelling, simulation and ERP for foundries will be made available to foundries. The foundry cluster will not only help improve the quality standards of material produced here but also protect ecological balance and conserve natural resources apart from growing exports, Kulkarni said.
"Our vision is to make Belgaum Foundry industry a global sourcing hub for castings and machined components by the year 2010. Despite slowdown in manufacturing sector and rising prices of steel and metal scrap we anticipate foundry units will register a healthy growth of 15-20 per cent during the current financial year," he said.
As part of the project, nearly 23 kms of road is being rebuilt in Udyambag industrial estate.
Foundry units in and around Belgaum are serving the automobile industry, general engineering and agriculture sectors. Automobile majors like Mahindra and Mahindra, Bajaj Auto, Ashok Leyland, TAFE, Caterpillar and engineering companies like Kiroskar Oil Engines Ltd, Alfa Laval, Simpsons are some of the companies sourcing castings from Belgaum. The Belgaum foundries also export to countries like the US, Germany, Belgium and West Asia.
