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ITA India Chapter 2022
Webinar on engineered tubes for automotive industry
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A webinar was held by ITA India Chapter along with support from Messe Dusseldorf India on 20th May 2022. This comes as a sequel to similar seminar s and webinars organized by ITA on Oil and Gas Pipes, Structural Tubes and Pipes, Tubes and Pipes for conveying Water, and Tubes and Pipes for transportation of Hydrogen Gas, all of which were focused on the end user Industry.
There were seven speakers with the focus on the industry value chain, starting from raw materials, tube processing and usage of the products in the automotive industry. Indian automotive Industry is dominated by motorcycles, scooters and passenger cars. The recent focus on the electrical vehicles was also covered by drawing upon the industry experience. Speakers included tube manufacturers with knowledge of automotive applications, automotive man- ufacturers, electric vehicles designers and the raw material producers. It was a good blend of experienced Industry actioners and brought out the strength in the indus- try from design to implementation and practice.
The stake holders in the chain are very aware of the need for integrating and drawing upon individual experiences to craft tubes and their processing to fulfil the automotive industry needs of cost optimi- zation, reliability, endurance and safety. Given that energy, it’s cost, availability and variety, has occupied center stage in all forums worldwide, the automotive indus- try too, along with its supply chain part- ners emphatically established this as the primary focus.
The webinar attracted a delegate strength of about 150 and received positive feed- back for its subject and coverage. With this the plans are being drawn up for a tech- nology focused ITA conference in Mumbai alongside the Tube, Metallurgy and Wire Fair being organized by Messe Dusseldorf.