KONE, the Finland-headquartered elevator and escalator maker, plans to raise exports from its factory near Chennai, in southern India, and sees the country's aging elevators as its next source of growth, its chief executive said in an interview. Philippe Delorme, president and chief executive of KONE Corporation, told The Hindu...
Chennai a viable location for global engineering, product development
Many large foreign companies have chosen Chennai over other locations for their engineering staff. Visteon, Caterpillar, Nissan-Renault, Vestas, Kone, FLSmidth, Nokia, Ericsson, Flextronics, Alcatel, Tessolve, Sanmina-SCI corporation have R&D or product development centers in and around Chennai. For example Visteon India MD, A Viswanathan said that the Visteon technical and...