Schmersal India, a subsidiary of the Schmersal Group, inaugurated Global Engineering Centre in Pune on March 13, 2020.

After the successful start of its Global IT Centre in Pune in 2018, Schmersal decided to found a Global Engineering Centre. The new engineering centre will support the entire Schmersal Group and supply hardware and software for the new products and solutions that are to be developed by Schmersal and used worldwide.

Ramji Singh, Vice President Sales & Marketing, Schmersal India began the opening ceremony by welcoming Ram Bhadouria, Strategic Project Director, Unilever as chief guest of honour for this event. Ram Bhadouria then addressed the audience and talked about his personal and professional career. He emphasised that safety has become an integral part of the corporate culture of Unilever.

Sagar Bhosale, Managing Director, Schmersal India Pvt Ltd became nostalgic as he looked back on the Schmersal India’s successful growth and recollected how they started with a small office, as a trading company and developed into a manufacturing unit with a head office at Ranjangaon, Pune. He also reported on various other successful projects that Schmersal has started up to the Global Engineering Center, which made a dream come true. Rajesh Nath, Managing Director, German Engineering Federation (VDMA) spoke about Schmersal’s progress and also about the significance of Industry 4.0.

The event concluded with a vote of thanks by Manoj Babu, Head R&D, Schmersal India, who will be heading the new engineering centre. He said that they are passionate and looking forward to working on new projects.