On the 3rd and 4th October 2013, the Ambassador for Italy in India Daniele Mancini and the Consul General of Italy for Mumbai, Ugo Ciarlatani, paid a visit to some of the most important productive companies at Pune District, which is 160Km south-east of Mumbai.
The program commenced with a visit to the Maschio Gaspardo Production Company, in the presence of Andrea Maschio – President.
Maschio Gaspardo is a worldwide leading company for the production of huge agricultural machinery. At the Pune plant, spread over 25,000sq.m. with 150 employees, 20,000 milling machines a year are manufactured for the Indian market.
Thereafter the Ambassador and the Consul General visited Carraro Spa,
a company worldwide known for the production of components and agricultural machinery. Both were welcomed by Enrico Carraro – President of the company – who came from Italy precisely to inaugurate a new production sector and the new Research & Engineering Centre.
To conclude the 3rd October evening, the Ambassador and the Consul General spent some time at Caffé Fiat of Pune, with the representatives of more than 50 Italian companies present in that district – an open and constructive sharing of opinions about the needs and requirements of the companies and the Italian managers residing in this area.
The next day, 4th October, the Ambassador and the Consul General proceeded to the establishment of Piaggio at Baramati. They were welcomed by the President Ravi Chopra, who guided them through the “Vespa” production line, Piaggio`s iconic brand which is of great success among the Indian youth, and afterwards also throough that of “Ape” another brand of fabulous success in India.
Thereafter, a visit to the establishment and the offices of MeccAlte – a worldwide leading company in the production of generators and energy alternators.
Even in this case we are dealing with an Italian company which in few years (production started in 2010) has accomplished very important results which satisfy the Indian and Asiatic market. The Ambassador and the Consul General were happy to spend time with the employees and cut the ribbon for 40,000 alternators manufactured in less than 4 years.
Even this mission, like all the others recently accomplished, shows the will power of the Italian Institutions being in the vicinity to the Italian productive system, which predicts the biggest concentration of Italian Companies and Italian investments at Pune.
A FEW PHOTOS OF THE VISIT AT CARRARO, PIAGGIO AND MECCALTE:
