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Scandura to launch mobile calibrating laboratory

Our Bureau

CHENNAI, July 10

DOTT. Ing. Scandura Calibration & Instrumentation (India) Pvt Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Italy-based Scandura, proposes to launch a mobile calibrating laboratory, which could call on Scandura's customers all over India.

The mobile calibration lab could probably have equipment worth $1,00,000 on board, Scandura's officials said today.

But the mobile lab is not Scandura's immediate move in the Indian market. The company, which has ``big plans for India in the next few years'', will set up a calibration lab in Chennai, which would later grow into an assembly centre for Scandura's produc ts, and eventually into a full-fledged export-capable production unit.

Scandura manufactures (in Italy) machines that calibrate instruments used mainly in the process industries. Mr. Gianni Ferrari, President, and Mr. Gianclaudio Andreolli, Vice-President of Scandura, told presspersons here today that the company had been s elling its products in India for over two decades.

Major Indian customers were the oil companies and public sector majors such as SAIL, NTPC and BHEL. India has been a major customer base for Scandura in Asia, contributing nearly 40 per cent of Scandura's overall business. Scandura is a $15-million compa ny.

Till recently, Scandura was represented in India by Carburettors Ltd, a part of the Chennai-based Ucal group. Scandura's Indian subsidiary is today manned mostly by Carburettors Ltd's team that sold Scandura's products.

Mr. V.G. Subramanian, CEO of Indian operations, said that in about three years' time, Scandura would manufacture several of its products in India for both the Indian and overseas markets.

Pic.: Mr. Gianni Ferrari, President, and Mr. Gianclaudio Andreolli, Vice-President, Scandura, Italy, at a press conference in Chennai on Monday.