Nawa will be venturing into track- mounted plants
Our strong base is product know-how, proven technology and engineering skills supported by latest CADD capabilities. These, coupled with well-equipped heavy fabrication and manufacturing facilities and project management skills, contribute to our ability to deliver world-class equipment and build integrated systems that are technically superior and cost-wise the most economical, says GN Raju, Managing Director, Nawa Engineers. Excerpts from the interview.

Brief us about the current status of the crushing and screening equipment industry.  
With massive infrastructure construction activity underway in India since the last few years, the crushing and screening equipment is now detached exclusively from being a mining sector domain to the core construction sector domains. The very need for millions of tonnes of road base materials, concrete mixes and asphalt mixes has pitch forked the need of crushing and screening equipment (CSE) into the forefront of the construction equipment (CE) industry. The manufacturers, both multinational and domestic players of CSE, have turned their entire focus on aggregate/quarry industry. Stone crushing which hitherto looked down as low end business has now prominently occupied the same status as that of the CE sector. The roadside
30-50 TPH crusher plants have been transformed into 300-500-900 TPH high-tech aggregate plants.

The CSE manufacturing sector has grown multifold. Indigenous players have developed new and high capacity primary jaw crushers, secondary and tertiary hydraulic cone crushers, horizontal shaft impact crushers, vibrating screening equipment and complete plant installations to meet ever increasing demand for aggregates for the national highways projects, state road projects, dam construction, airports, sea ports, urban infrastructure development, power projects and commercial RMC plants. Multinational manufacturers have had a field day and continue to flourish. Many of them have setup their manufacturing base here as India will be their major source of business. Many new players have set foot on Indian shores from all corners of the world, and numbers are increasing foreseeing a boom period of much larger scale in 2010-20 and beyond. The CSE sector too, has matured and is able to produce crushing and screening equipment to world standards and compete with the multinationals.

Nawa leads the pack in the indigenous CSE manufacturers segment for manu?facturing low to very high end capacities.
 
What does the CSE industry demand forecast look like?
As per CPCB forecast, the CSE industry is expected to churn out nearly 45 billion tonne of aggregates needed as supply of raw material aggregate needed for the core construction and infrastructure (CI) industry till 2013 to produce the various projected roads, dams, ports, industrial corridors, high speed rail corridors projects. This demand is expected to increase to nearly triple to 135 billion tonne of aggregates by the end of the 12th Five Year Plan. This translates to a requirement of over 26,500 CSE plants by 2017 end making this a niche and leading CE industry segment in terms of CE share. Nawa seeks to take the lion’s share of this CSE market forecast.

Could you brief us on the CSE industry sector forecast?
Due to the impending slowdown forecast across the Western world due to financial debt conditions and near zero investment, it is clear that the India and China will be the core focus for all foreign CE companies. This also puts the pressure on Indian Government to come out with more clear guidelines for the mining, ports and every infrastructure sectors. With a trillion- dollar investment envisaged in the 12th Five Year Plan, this becomes all the more important to avoid scams and ensure transparency of development of the CE Sector.

For the CSE sector, we foresee:

A) 2012-13: Demand will be over?whelmingly more for the tyre-based mobile plant configurations.  
B) 2012-17: Demand for concrete sector picks up due to sectoral demands and hence, Nawa will introduce its integrate batching plants to provide an end to end aggregate to concrete provision CSE plant configurations.
C) 2013-17: demand in mining sector will pick up, leading to a demand for track based mobile plant configurations.

Nawa seeks to introduce the entire range of equipment (from low to the highest capacities) as per the demand of the CSE market. While the foreign competition is a risk factor, Nawa is better placed with its indigenous technologies to service the need of CSE equipment with equivalent or more quality at much lower prices than the foreign counterparts.

What are your expectations from Excon 11?
We expect Excon 2011 to live up to its big ticket billing as one of the biggest construction equipment machinery shows in the world. We expect to leave a mark of our manufacturing expertise and showcase indigenous Indian manufacturing capability and talent. We will be displaying a range of our popular stationary crushing and screening equipment. For 2011-12, we wish to retain focus on displaying its strength in mobile crushing and screening plants as this is the projected growth area for 2012 in India. Hence we will be displaying a range of different configurations of our mobile plants. We will be running various mult?imedia presentations of our inherent stren?gths in providing design to commissioning of turnkey bulk material handling projects.

Any new product launches on the anvil?
Nawa will be venturing into the offering of track mounted plants, all developed and manufactured in-house during 2012-13. We also have plans to manufacture concrete batching plant machinery. Due to a high level of enquiries from foreign vendors, Nawa has serious plans to get into trading of common infrastructure construction equipment like cranes, loaders, etc.

NAWA ENGINEERS - USP
  • Indigenous Indian talent and technology to produce high quality world- class equipment.
  • International class state-of the-art manufacturing facilities spread across 15 acres in Hyderabad, which can cater to the manufacturing needs of existing and future lines of expansion.  
  • A customer base which includes all the top Indian construction companies and every other medium and small construction companies across India and abroad.  
  • Over 400 installations India and overseas.
  • In-house R&D centre with latest CADD tools and resources to produce the latest engineering value for existing and new products.  
  • Products engineered to meet generic and customised specifications.  
  • Ability to deliver services and solutions for project level applications with equipment in stationary and mobile formats from low to capacity configurations.  
  • A strong network for service-cum- distributor-cum stock centres across India.