Source India; Extended hand for metal sourcing parts

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Ahmedabad (India); 19 August 2011; Imagine a source for your castings and forgings in India. Imagine that source offers European quality. However on top of that it offers extremely competitive prices and far faster delivery times. For 5 Finnish companies, it was reason to work with ‘Source India’ already. Mantsinen is one of them. CEO Jitesh Mehta sees further scope for Finnish-Indian cooperation.

Finland may not seem an obvious choice for an Indian company. The fact Fins play ice hockey and no cricket is only a small example in the huge list of cultural differences one can think of. Nevertheless Jitesh Mehta is convinced Indians and Fins work perfectly together. ‘If you do what you promise, are responsive and offer quality, they will open up and you will find very serious partners. We found five until now’, he explains us. For the first time Source India is exhibiting at the Alihankinta Subcontracting Exhibition in Tampere this year. The obvious goal is to find more Finnish customers.

Complete casting & forging services

Source India offers castings from 50 grams to 3000 kgs and forgings from 50 grams up to even 35000 kgs. single piece. A large amount of processes are used, i.e. sand casting, lost wax, centrifugal casting, shell moulding, ring rolling, closed and open die forging.

Additional services like CNC machining, heat treatment and other processes are supplied, up to readymade products. As a minimum requirement Source India works with ISO 9001:2008 certified foundries and forging shops. Many specific approvals from i.e. ABS and DNV can however be delivered.

‘Most important is that we understand the European requirements in terms of surface finish, quality, testing and delivery very well through years of experience’ Mr. Mehta stresses. Not only Finnish customers, but many other European OEMs are using our services. ‘Whether you are in Oil & Gas, Offshore, Marine, Pumps & Valves, Cranes, Earthmoving or another industry, we know your business’, mr. Metha continues. And he explains us he knows the Indian suppliers inside out. ‘We are your extended hand for metal sourcing parts’, is his own conclusion.

Below you will find contact details for further information and/or inquiries;

Source India, Mr. Jitesh Mehta; sourceindia@sourceindia.biz; Tel. +91 98 2423 2036

Source India is exhibiting at Alihankinta Subcontracting Exhibition from 13 – 15 September; Tampere Exhibition and Sports Center; Stand C 925 

Author; Jan Nyeboer (Business India); jn@businessindia.eu; Tel. +31 70 250 0399 

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Hardship of Common Indonesians

There are many definitions of poverty. One that I feel is correct is: ‘Poverty is a situation in which you are struggling every day to provide for your basic needs. A struggle requiring your full attention throughout the day, leaving no time for analysis of the situation and planning to move out of poverty. In the meantime you realise that all you have (or parts of it) can be wiped out, by illness, weather conditions (floodings, storms etc.) or other hardship.’

Current driver of the family (Hardship example 1)
The driver of my father in law seems a responsible fellow. I cannot quite judge, never come to his house, but most of all, we never communicate (other than friendly mutual smiling), my Indonesian is by far not enough for any conversation above the ‘baby’s first words level’, and his English is possibly worse than that.
But he is a good driver, I feel safe when driving with him in a car (those using Indonesian taxis from time to time know this is not to be taken for granted). So for some reason I feel he is a responsible fellow, who has also a quite secure job, and therefore a quite secure income. He can provide for his family, can even have some savings.
But then his wife gets ill. Needs to be operated, operation needs to be paid, during operation it is concluded the diagnosis was incorrect. Another operation needed, operation needs to be paid again.
And that is just an example of the hardship Indonesian families suffer. Illness, wiping out all your savings.

Former driver of the family (Hardship example 2)
His name is Muhassan. He was the driver of my father in law for some time. Somehow he moved on to another job, a job however he could not keep. And naturally my father in law has another driver now.
Today (this text is written somewhere in February 2010) he came to my father in law’s house. Friendly smiles (all communication we are able to have, with my limited knowledge of Indonesian, his limited knowledge of English) were exchanged. Later on my wife explained he still has no job. Now that is bad in itself, worse is that as a result, his 13/14 year old daughter is no longer attending school.

Just trying to imagine what it means;

- having to survive without diploma in this Indonesia, which opportunities will this girl have.

- to have to take your daughter from school because you lost your job and food is more important than knowledge.