The Southern India Engineering Manufacturers’ Association and the Scientific and Industrial Testing and Research Centre have developed a standard design for “V4” pump and hope it will bring about standardisation among pumpset manufacturers in Coimbatore. Hence, the SIEMA and Si’Tarc embarked on a project almost four months ago and have developed a common design for “V4” pump. One of the …
For the hundreds of manufacturers, job work units, and spares makers in the pumpset industry here, prolonged slowdown in demand and high raw material prices threaten operational viability. Agriculture pumpset manufacturers are operating at just about 40 % capacity and domestic pump makers are operating 30 % of the installed capacity, says K.V. With nearly 1,000 units, 300 of who …
