Gates India Technology Day is a platform to showcase the spectrum of advanced products, services and technologies in fluid conveyance to customers. These events also provide an opportunity to engage in a close interaction with industry experts to improve and enhance the safety, reliability and upkeep of the customer’s hydraulic equipment.

This year, Tim Saupe, Director, Systems and Commercial Engineering (Global Industrial end markets) and Paulo Pereira, Director Mining and Heavy Infrastructure Business Development, travelled along with Gates India Commercial team from sales, marketing and application engineering to various key customers with a special focus on excavator, truck and bus and mining segments. It showcased its technological capabilities and innovations and how close partnership between Gates and the OEMs result in meeting customer expectations.

During this sixteen day tour, the team visited, Tata Hitachi, JCB Heavy Line in excavator segment, Mahindra and Tata Motors in truck and bus, CNH Construction Equipment, Milacron and Tata Steel in stationary equipment. In mining segment, Hindustan Zinc, Sandvik, Atlas Copco, Tata Iron ore mines, NCL and ECL were visited and Hose Management System was introduced. All the events were well represented by the customer’s management, engineering and sourcing teams. The Technology Day events consisted of presentations from Gates on the technologies and innovations, from customer on their expectations, product displays, shop floor tours and executive meetings.

A highlight of the tour was JCB Heavy line, Pune facilitated the entire Gates team for successfully ramping up supplies for the various platform and excellent support provided by Gates in new platform development, logistics and service levels. It was a proud moment for Gates when the largest OEM in India placed on record their appreciation of the hard work done by Gates and committed for more new initiatives.

The Hose Management System drew lot of interest from the Mining companies towards improving the output of their machines.