Construction Chemical International Seminar, branded C3, was held in Chennai on March 21/22, 2014, at Grand Venue Chennai Trade Centre and attended by about 550 delegates.
The unique C3 — covering effective use of construction chemicals for enduring structures in construction chemicals — was inaugurated by chief guest Dr Nagesh Iyer, Director, CSIR, and Dr Prabhat Kurnar, CMD, Bhavini, was the guest of honour.
In a glittering inaugural session, Samir Surlaker, President, Construction Chemicals Manufacturers Association (CCMA), welcomed all and invited delegates to play an interactive role. Dr Iyer in inaugural address exposed the audience as well as CCMA members to tremendous growth of construction chemicals in India. Dr Kumar explained the usage of construction chemicals in nuclear structures and invited CCMA to participate actively in the technological development.
Construction Chemical Manufacturers Association is now over 50-member strong association, representing 80 per cent of revenue in a very short time construction chemicals manufacturers collaborating jointly to spread awareness and focus on right use of right chemicals. CCMA aims at standardising and marking construction chemicals products to give confidence to end users and construction industry.
Not resting on laurels, CCMA plans further seminars all over India. A hand book on admixtures is planned on the right usage in collaboration with Indian Concrete Institute. Attempts are already on way to introduce the technical topics in the academic syllabi. Training programmes are in advance stages of design. With all this holistic approach, the industry is confident of growing from present revenue of about ` 3,000 crore to ` 5,000 crore in next 2-3 years.
This is absolutely possible, considering the large gap in demand and supply. This growth is totally depended on government accepting construction chemicals as recognised industry and backs us with incentives and rationalisation of government taxes, duties and levies.
C3 was a grand success as per feedback from participants. Next C3 is scheduled in February 2015 in Kolkata.