Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), an apex industry association is organizing Excon 2009, India’s largest and only focused construction equipment and construction technology trade fair between November 25 -29, 2009 at Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC), Bangalore, India. This five-day exhibition is expected to attract over 350 exhibitors and 50,000 business visitors from across the globe.
The CII in collaboration with its strategic partner in Sri Lanka, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, organized a Road Show in promotion of EXCON 2009 in Colombo, recently. Over 100 participants representing the construction, building materials & Engineering sectors of Sri Lanka were present at the promotion where Nissanka Wijeratne, Secretary, Ministry of Construction and Engineering Services of Sri Lanka was the Chief Guest.
Anand Sundaresan, Member, Excon 2009 Steering Committee and Managing Director, Schwing Stetter India Pvt Ltd in his presentation on Excon 2009 said that Excon is Asia’s third largest trade fair for equipment industry and amongst world’s top ten construction equipment & construction technology trade fairs. He said that besides showcasing world class products and services in the construction equipment sector, it would also demonstrate the technological prowess of the construction equipment industry.
Mr. Sundaresan said that the Government of India has accorded top priority for the growth of infrastructure sector. To achieve a new vision of growth, the Planning Commission, Government of India has estimated a planned investment of US $ 500 billion in infrastructure in the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2012).
The projected investment in the roads sector, including national highways and rural roads is USD 76 billion, of which a large part is expected to come from private sector, said Mr Sundaresan. He also opined that India is increasingly becoming the construction equipment and component sourcing base for the industry and hence the construction and infrastructure sector in Sri Lanka can utilize Excon 2009 to identify potential business partners for sourcing construction equipment / technologies.
In the context of recently concluded ethnic crisis, the Island Nation has huge opportunity to leverage on the competitive advantage of the Indian construction equipment industry in the rehabilitation initiative of Government of Sri Lanka in providing infrastructure facilities in the Northern province, said Mr Sunderasan.
He said that Excon 2009, is an excellent platform for the Government of Sri Lanka to identify potential industry partners in the construction equipment sector, who could offer their expertise and services in the rehabilitation activities such as; construction of highways, housing, sanitation, etc. He said that currently in its 5th edition, Excon has grown to become one of the important Construction Equipment events in Asia Pacific. On behalf of CII, he invited all participants to visit Bangalore to attend Excon 2009 event. Excon 2009 would feature participation of international exhibitors from over 90 companies. There will be international pavilions from Germany, United Kingdom, Italy and China.
Excon 2009 is a demonstrative exhibition wherein most exhibitors do active demonstrations of their equipments to communicate to the visitors on the versatility / capability of the equipments. In short, he said that Excon 2009 will be “ the One Stop Shop for the Construction Equipment buying “. Exhibits on display include dozers, earth excavators, front end loaders, graders and vibratory soil compactors, paving equipment, integrated concrete - bitumen batching, mixing equipments, mobile and stationary crushing equipment, material handling equipment, hydraulic and pneumatic drilling equipment, sewer construction and maintenance systems, conduit construction systems, trenchers, underground cable-laying, pipe laying, drainage and trench digging equipment, lubricants and tyres.
Apart from the exhibition, Excon 2009 will organise a CEOs Roundtable on Construction Equipment Industry on 26 November 2009 at Bangalore.
- Asian Tribune -
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