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Businbess and Holy Cows
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01-2007/1875
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Source: Rheinische Post Local News, Germany
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Samstag, 20. Januar 2007 --- Business and Holy Cows. Fair discussions, seminars and traffic chaos - the entrepreneurs and scientists from Moenchengladbach do no0t see much of the six-million metropole Bangalore who are presently visiting India. A Far East report by Michael Bröcker.
The visiting group from Mönchengladbach sees the two faces of Bangalore next to MG Road. Plastic tents are at the sides roads, an Indian cooks rice at an open fireplace in her traditional gown, like in 19th century. She belongs to the "Untouchables", the poorest social group in India (castes have been fin ished officially), living of begged 50 rupees a day - one Euro. Some 100 yards further on you can see glittering office towers of the software gigants Oracle, Microsoft & Co. Bangalore is IT-center. And place for machine building. Bosch is producing injection pumps in huge production halls in the south. And that is Bangalore, too, a place of business.
"India is the Future"
Achim Schulz has known that for twelve years. The CEO of the Giesenkirchen based polymer pecialist Diamant Metallplastiuc caters from Bangalore to foundries, automotive producers and machine tool makers in Asia. "India is the future, maybe more than China", he believes. Schulz has organized the trip and taken his partners from academia and industries with him
One of them being Dr. Andreas Straube. "I am looking for Indian partners to market our products", says the CEO of the Gladbach based producer of measuring technologies Reorg. He does not see much of the six-million-metropole Bangalore. His programme comprises fair discussions, visits of companies and presentations. Also Professor Jürgen Büddefeld, Director of the iNano-Instituteat the University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein, explains to engineers of the renowned Visveswaraiah University in Bangalore why his high technology researches coulkd be demanded in India. "I got first contacts", he says later satisfied. More has not been the target of the trip for which Achim Schulz was sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Economics. Orders are not expected.
Auch Schulz' own product ideas which are being evaluated by scientists of the RWTH Aachen (to save costs and to get sponsorships because of the private-public partnership) are not ready for marketing. Nevertheless: his concept to maintain bad bridges has been presdented to the Indian Federal Department for RailRoads.
Still better for the Aachen based entrepreneur Dr. Martin Düsterhöft, who has developed an emission and gas-saving modul for Diesel engines. The Indian engineers are entused. No wonder, the city is having great emission problems. And they permit daily 1,000 more cars. Düsterhöfts' product could not only give them "free breezing" but also reduce costs An Indian specialzed worker leaves a third of his monthly income of round about 200 Euro at mthe gas station.
Yet, the traffiic chaos is not solved. Maybe the reason are the cows being incorporated in the traffic between the threewheelrs and cars. These animals are holy in the Hindu religion and may not be touched. That is not always possible. They call them "Natural Brakes".
INFO
The Trip
Participants amongst others Diamant Metallpalstic, RWTH Aachen, Hochschule Niederrhein, HuDe, Reorg
Financing
The delegation was sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Economics.
Company
The Diamant Metallplastic achieves a double-digit turnover of with 25 employees.
Rather China than India
(mibr) Diamant-CEO Achim Schulz had of course contacted Economical Development CEO Dr. Ulrich Schückhaus who, however, could not see The Indo-German Office at Mönchengladbach. They are concentrating on China and die Turkey. Now, the Office is with the Economical Department of Neuss being the contact office to the Indo German Instittute of Technologies (IGIT) in Bangalore.
The Neuss based Governor Professor Dieter Patt, visiting India with his Economical Development CEO Jürgen Steinmetz and Chamber of Commerce CEO Willhelm Werhahn, is visiting the IGIT in Bangalore today.
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