Voith announces expansion of its factory at Vadodara

2024-04-25 12:03:33 Technology

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27, April 2018, Ahmedabad: Voith is a global technology group with a wide portfolio of systems, products, services and digital applications. It sets standards in the fields of energy, oil & gas, paper, raw materials, transport & automotive and digital solutions. In 2017 the company celebrated its 150th
Anniversary with a renewed pledge to continue to provide inspiring technology for future generations.

Since 1867, Voith Hydro, a group division of Voith, has been providing cutting edge technology & expertise in the field of Hydro power equipment and solutions.

With a long history of successful operation in India, the company has been expanding its foot print in the Indian sub-continent since 1911 and now has a significant presence in the country and adjoining regions of South East Asia and as far as Africa.

Voith has invested in manufacturing hydro power equipment at its factory at Vadodara, India since 2010. It has already supplied from this plant, hydro power equipment complying with international quality norms to all parts of the world including the Americas, Western Europe, Japan, SEA and countries in Africa. In order to expand its product range and market coverage, Voith Hydro has made further investments in this factory last year.

During the inauguration ceremony of the new facility on April 26, 2018, attended by Dr. Tobias Keitel, Executive VP Operations & Member of Board of Management of Voith Hydro Holding GmbH & Co. KG, reinforced the commitment to invest further in line with ?Make in India? initiative of GOI. The factory at Vadodara has been laid out and equipped with machines similar to their German establishments in keeping with highest standards of technology. On the occasion of the inauguration, Mr. Ravi Kalra, Managing Director and CEO of Voith Hydro India, also highlighted that transfer of technology from Germany has helped the Indian company to build the most modern hydro power equipment locally and to develop necessary skills, thus bringing down costs of manufacture as per expectations of its customers.

With its highly skilled and experienced manpower as well as the state of the art manufacturing facility，Voith Hydro Pvt. Ltd India is fully equipped to cater to the supply and service needs of its customers for not only new plants but also for retrofitting and upgrading of existing plants in the region.

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