Metallization Plants And Slitting Machines

Metallizer Machines for Capacitors

Aerre multilayer metallizing plants have been known for many years and proven for quality and efficiency. Aerre, supported by the technical and productive international tradition of Arcotronics Machinery Division, will produce the metallizing plants and Arcotronics will act with a dedicated world-wide organisation as Marketing Arm of the new industrial entity. The metallizing plant is rather flexible and with a very short set-up time (10÷15 min.). The linear speed is 20 mt/sec.

Multi-chamber Machines for Packaging

Aerre also manufacture multi-chamber machines for the production of film for packaging and other special applications. They are modular machines allowing to add additional chambers at a second stage, so as to integrate the machine depending on the different processes that can be used in the metallization of various materials for different applications such as: plasma, sputtering, E.B., monomers, etc.

User Friendly Machines

The reel charge and discharge operation has been designed in such a way that no lifting devices are needed. Due to the labyrinth tunnels connecting the chambers, it is possible to have pumping units capable to reach 10 mbar vacuum only in the metallization chamber and 10 mbar in the side

Slitting Machines

Aerre offers also a wide range of slitting machines. Packaging master-roll sizes (mm) from 1200 to 2500. Capacitors cut reel sizes (mm) from 4 to 26; from 14 to 32; from 32 to 110, and from 35 to 200.

"The industry in India is highly fragmented with estimates of between 200-300 units operating in the country. Investments range from 30 crores to a meager 3 lacs. Technologies also range from virtually state of the art to primitive 40-50 years old ones. There are approximately 20-25 large and medium scale units, 40-50 units are in the organised small-scale sector and the rest constitute the large unorganised sector," said Mr. Jawad Basith, President, Plastic Capacitors Technology Centre, while addressing the press to launch Captech 2000, the first capacitor technology show of the new millennium. He said that the product range of the capacitor industry includes the plastic film capacitors, ceramic capacitors, electrolytic, mica, and all sorts of esoteric varieties."

"This industry has both export and import potential. But the imports are larger than the exports. It is actually difficult to quantify this. The imports are almost 40-50% in the sector that is catering to entertainment electronics, telecom, and small instrumentation. The level of imports is not very significant in appliance capacitors or power factor correction capacitors. But now we shall see an increase as the duties are being lowered and the global players have started to look at India as an interesting market," he said. While deliberating on the exports he said that Indian exports have always been very low and there is no substantial growth in this. "This is because the capacity imbalance between the global and Indian players is very wide," he said.

While talking about the government policy viz. a viz. export-import Mr. Basith said that the industry in India is small in comparison to the global market. It is important for the industry itself to realise and adopt the correct strategy. It is no use for the industry to wait and watch the government to provide sops like protection or fiscal and taxation policies. As we have signed the WTO agreement, we, as a nation, are bound to lower the duties in imports in all sectors, including capacitors, and on the raw material used by the industry. Government will not give any kind of tariff protection.

Government is not in a position to provide fiscal sops to help the industry. So, if the capacitor industry is not going to help itself then only god can help. "There is no such thing as "chalta hai" quality any more. Quality standards in India have to match the global standards. Not only the quality of the product but also the services that we provide. Industry has to benchmark itself" stated Mr. Basith.

"What government could do is to phase out import tariffs on finished capacitors as per the longest time frame that is possible under the WTO Act" he said.

INDIAN CAPACITOR INDUSTRY HAS TO MATCH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS: JAWAD BASITH

PCTC is a 12 years old industry association of 100 odd members, drawn from all sectors including plastic films, ceramic, electrolytic, mica capacitors and so on. They are also drawn from the supporting industries like raw material and the machinery industry. It represents the interest of the industry to the government viz. a viz. the budget, exim policy and any specific problem encountering the industry.

" The Indian market scenario is changing fast. If the things go with the same pace consumer electronics and electrical appliances market will grow by 25%," he said. Mr. Basith also mentioned that Captech 2000 would provide an appropriate platform for the Indian industry to meet their foreign counterparts, policy makers and regulators.

"We are organising Captech 2000 for the first time. To talk briefly about the show the first Captech exposition was organised by PCTC at Bangalore in 1997. There were 40 participants with a net exhibition area of 220 square meters. It was a well received show. The industry felt that it was important for them to continue with this exercise in the future also", said Mr. Prem Behl, Managing Director, Exhibitions India while addressing the press conference held to launch Captech 2000, exhibition and conference. "It was collectively urged that the exhibition has to be broadened. It was also felt that the show should take place in the capital so that it could attract more and more participation from the industry", he said. "The decision to bring the show to the capital is important because it is the seat of government that includes all policy makers, regulators and licensing authorities." With 475 sqm of net exhibition area, the size of the exhibition has more than doubled from the previous one. There are 53 participants out of which 37 companies are Indian. 10 big companies have come from various countries including Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Switzerland and Taiwan. "We have around 6 other supporting organisations that have rendered their support for making the show a success", said Mr. Behl.

CAPTECH 2000 WILL HAVE POSITIVE IMPACT: PREM BEHL

We, in capacitor industry, have always felt that the duty structure promised to us for many years now should have been implemented. The duties still remain very high on capital equipment. If we have to compete with the imported capacitors in India the duty structure on the capital equipment has to be reduced to zero. Duty structure on raw material has also left a lot of things to be desired. It still remains 5 percent. It could have been a welcome step if the duty on all raw materials was similarly reduced to zero. The procedures for imports have to be simplified. The streamlining of this will save a lot of revenue.

Another thing is procedural simplification. The recent budget has attempted a little bit in this direction. It has simplified the excise procedures. The same is needed for customs. These developments will give us an edge to compete in the Indian market.

WE LEAD IN QUALITY

Montena is a group of different companies that concentrate mainly on capacitors. We started about 100 years ago in Switzerland. We also have a unit, which manufactures high-voltage capacitors.

"The vision of Montena is to be a world leader in the equipment sector. We want to form a close alliance with our customers world-wide to help develop new applications and markets," said Mr. Daetwyler while addressing the press on the launch of Captech 2000 exhibition and conference.

"Today we export to all over the world. The trend prevailing today really emphasises on shifting production bases from the west to the east," he said. He told that this trend will continue for another five years. "Indian market is becoming more and more important for us to sell the equipment we manufacture. There is a great growing trend here," he said. "Today we consider India as a local market. Products are manufactured here for the local consumption. But since the global players have started coming to India, it will become the most sought after destination for investment, said Mr. Daetwyler.

All the types of capacitors are being made in India. The variety is large with different dielectrics, lead configurations, packages, voltages and capacitance values. This variety has to be considered in relation to the relatively small production in the country of some 1200 million pieces.

Indian production is distributed among some 180 manufacturing units, many of them small or tiny. The units are geographically spread out, presumably to be close to customers and / or to take advantage of locational benefits offered earlier by state and central governments.

The capacitor industry in India is therefore diverse and fragmented. Since capacitors lend themselves to mass manufacturer, the Indian capacitor industry is handicapped. Not surprisingly, typical Indian capacities are 1/10 to 1/100 of international manufacturers. Since volume purchase of materials leads to lower prices, the Indian manufacturer loses out here also.

In DC capacitors, Surface Mount Technology is a megatrend. SMT facilitates automation, mandatory for modern electronic

BC Components was part of Philips Passive a Component group earlier. Now it is known as BC Components worldwide. BC Components India Pvt. Ltd is a fully owned subsidiary of BC Components International. The company is headquartered at Holland. We have a wide range of passive components and that is also an advantage of our global operations. We are one of largest passive component manufacturers in the world.

I think globalisation in the industry is very much there. The only option with us is to be ready to accept it. The immediate impact in terms of globalisation on the capacitor industry is the much more demanding customer. The demand for better quality and performance is rising. We have to match the global standards in terms of quality, price, long life and timely delivery of end product. Customer here has already put the standards on testimony. The demand will continue to increase on the local manufacturers.

The use of capacitors will definitely grow. The form and functionality may change. We have to improve faster than ever before. What we were doing yesterday is not good enough for today. What we are doing today will not be enough for tomorrow. The continuous and speedy improvement is the only way to survive for the local capacitor industry.

CAPACITOR INDUSTRY NEEDS CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: R. V. DESHPANDE

GOVERNMENT SHOULD REVISE DUTY STRUCTURE: VIKRAM DESAI

INDIA IS THE HOT SPOT FOR INVESTMENT: BRUNO DAETWYLER

Being in Siemens for 36 years I have seen the growth of components sector. Being an Indian I am proud to say that we have two global components production sites in India at Kalyani in West Bengal and Nasik in Maharashtra.

South East Asian market is the fastest growing market in today’s scenario. Siemens joined hands with Matsushita Corp. of Japan to form a JV in 1987 for manufacturing passive components of global standards. Last years we had fully autonomous operations with the name of Electronic Parts and Components. Under this banner we are producing more or less 90% export oriented products. We have logistic support also. The Nasik unit of Siemens components is a JV company with Asian Electronics that manufactures capacitors.

"India has to raise the standards of quality and service to give a proper boost to this industry. A fresh impetus is required to bridge the gap between the global and the Indian standards," said Mr. Chaturvedi.

India has to raise the standard of quality: Manoj Chaturvedi

equipment. Automation reduces cost, increases throughout and enables rapid ramp up of production to take advantage of narrow windows of opportunity. Since customers, even those in India, are demanding portable, even pocketable equipment, this trend cannot be denied.

India’s agreement with the WTO dictates removal of quantitative restrictions and lowering of duties by 2005, in some cases by 2003. This implies that the international market is coming to India.

These market trends are likely to place enormous stresses on the DC capacitor industry in the next few years. International brand names, enormous capacitors, access to low cost materials and manufacturing, latest technologies will be competing with small Indian manufacturers who have grown (in some cases not grown) in a protected environment. Only drastic action will enable the Indian DC capacitor industry to survive this onslaught.

The situation in respect of AC capacitors is less serious, since technological changes are not taking place. However, other factors apply to this sector also.