| REGIONAL
ACTIVITY
NORTHERN REGION
PROGRAMME ON "CORROSION PREVENTION"
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19 FEBRUARY 2002, NEW DELHI
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Industry, and an important sector is the automotive
industry, needs to beat the corrosion problem
with regard to most products.
Dr. Efim Y Lyublinski, world renowned expert
on Corrosion Protection Methods and Director,
Field Technical Support, Northern Technologies
International Corporation, presented a paper at
the International corrosion Congress held in India.
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"Grabbing" the opportune
moment, ACMA (NR) arranged a programme in the ACMA Pran
Talwar Boardroom, for the Professor to speak on the
subject. Also, present was the Professor's colleague
Mr Ronnie Singh, Sales Engineer Industrial Packaging
Technology, as well as, Mr. N Sriram, General Manager,
Harita NTI Ltd.
The Presentation on the application
of Volatile Corrosion Inhibitors (VCI) for preserving
components through the use of environment friendly products,
brings ready-to-use products to the User's end. Certain
features of the VCI packaging material:
a) Protects ferrous/non-ferrous metal and their alloys
b) To be used on dry & oil free surface/products
c) May be used on any size/shape of components/engines/surface
d) Reusable, recyclable but not biodegradable approved
by major international OEMs
e) Shelf live 2 years; Service life 5 years
f) Cost effective : cheap material used for VCI
Dr. Lyublinski believes that out of
a 1000 ways, only 4-5 methods of protection were in
use. For products requiring more than 5 years protection,
a different combination of VCI inhibitors, gases and
desiccants were used.
Several points surfaced during Question-Answer session:
a) dies could be protected with VCI poly bags when
not in use
b) kerosene not to be used for cleaning as dirt was
not totally removed; chloride remained and small invisible
holes were left on the surface of the item
c) good idea to use VCI for component movement, particularly,
for exports as this takes longer to reach the destination.
The 20 participants joined in lively interaction. Excellent
feedback was received with suggestions, of more such
awareness and informative programmes.
OEM INTERACTION - VISIT TO SWARAJ ENGINES LTD
& PUNJAB TRACTORS LTD :
22 FEBRUARY 2002, MOHALI
ACMA (NR) working towards completing
its Work Plan and OEM interaction, accompanied 27 CEOs
and middle Management Personnel to Swaraj Engines Ltd
& Punjab Tractors Ltd. Vice President, Mr Deep Kapuria,
also, joined the delegation.
SWARAJ ENGINES
The first of the two-stop visit was Swaraj Engines Ltd.
This was a maiden visit to the Plant where the technology
for the engines was from KOEL, a partner in Swaraj Engines
Ltd. The manufacturing capacity of the Plant was 36,000
per annum, in two shifts with a total workforce of 600.
Currently, the Plant produced 24,000 engines a year.
Following points were worth a mention :
• Swaraj Engines had implemented Low
Cost Automation through gravity operated conveyor belts.
Productivity of the work force was very high
• well planned lay-out-cell
manufacturing
• the overall cleanliness of
the plant and natural lighting was very good
• maintenance of machines was
mainly in-house with concentration on preventive maintenance
• shifting focus from in-house
manufacturing to out-sourcing of components
• the Company has started working
towards meeting the engine emission norms by 2005.
The following personnel were present at the
interaction:
Mr G S Rihal, Managing Director
Mr Gopal Sharma, Vice President Works
Mr P D Joshi, General Manager Material Services
Mr Avtar Singh, Chief Manager Production
Mr Taneja thanked Mr Rihal and his team for the opportunity
to visit the plant and the excellent interaction with
ACMA (NR) members
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