As many as 50 micro unit owners and three pumpset manufacturers participated at a vendor development programme organised here on Tuesday by Southern India Engineering Manufacturers’ Association, Tamil Nadu Association for Cottage and Tiny Enterprises and the MSME Development Institute.
The pumpset manufacturers displayed some of the components that they are procuring from other States and discussed the possibilities for micro units here to supply these.
Benefit
According to V. Lakshminarayanaswamy, president of SIEMA, most of the member units are procuring raw materials and small components from up-country suppliers. They are trying to source these components from the micro units here to bring down the cost of the product. It will also benefit the micro units in this region.
He requested the micro unit owners to give details of their companies, including the machinery, spare capacity and workmen they have so that the SIEMA members can contact them to explore possibilities for sourcing. The association has been conducting such vendor development programmes regularly, he said.
According to J. James, president of TACT, the association will have follow-up measures so that those already supplying to pumpset units can look at more orders from industries here. If the bigger units continued to source components from other States, the micro units here would be hit. Hence, he appealed to the larger industries to support the micro units here with competitive rates and orders.
The programme was mainly for micro units in the pumpset sector and it can be expanded to other sectors too in the future events, he said.
