IIPM
Whirlpool
The visit to Whirlpool India was one life time experience for the students of IIPM Pune. Mr. Rajendra Lagad from Whirlpool explained the innovative concept of production of home appliances in the factory situated in Pune. He stressed on the various brands like Nihon, Singer, IGNIS, Newchime and Sanyo and exports it to countries like Japan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, United States and many more countries around the globe.
The students were also told about Whirlpool’s new venture of getting into manufacturing of 440 lit. of refrigerators. The plant in Pune is just into the production of washing machines, Refrigerators and a small volume of Micro Wave ovens. The plant now produces an average of 1100 refrigerators, 1100 washing machine and approx.700 micro waves during every shifts.
SUZLON INDUSTRY VISIT
Fall Winter 06-08 batch of IIPM Pune visited Suzlon on 2nd February 2007. Mr Kaushik Patel explained the innovative concept that develops a wind-farm with all necessary infrastructure, including land, civil work, electrical work, Wind Turbines, transmission lines, approach roads, etc. coupled with financial assistance for the third party/parties. This concept provides investors with extensive infrastructure born of collective design at shared costs while giving wind farm ownership in a large wind park. He also explained the benefits an individual can get by having the windmills. SUPA has 57 windmills and the major customers to Suzlon are Tata’s and Bajaj’s. Mr. Patel also discussed the Tax saving structure from the companies and individuals point of view. After the lunch the students visited the windmill park were the classroom presentation helped the students to understand the functioning of the windmills.
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