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New Engineer Training Held at Gallium, Organised by ITA Vice-President India Mr Y.K. Bhatia, Who Reports Below:
The Indian Management Board of the ITA (IMB) decided at a previous meeting that more needed to be done to develop and train tube and pipe engineers in India, where there is a shortage of qualified staff. Mr Bhatia of Gallium Industries offered to organise a trial training course, which, if successful, would lead to the establishing of further courses that would be open to ITA member companies in the Indian tube and pipe industry. He reports as follows on the initial course that was held:
“Gallium conducted a 5-day training course on “Tube Manufacturing” at its centre in Faridabad, New Delhi at the beginning of this year. It was designed for our new engineers and customer technicians who were setting tube-making facilities for the first time.
The training course was 3 days in theoretical aspects of tube mill, mill-setting procedures, tube mill operating parameters and its effect on tube quality. These 3 day sessions were followed by 2 days of visits to two tube manufacturing plants: one for structural tube manufacturing and the other for precision tube making for automotive and engineering applications.
R. Seghal, R. Rafiq and A. Ali conducted the course, under my direction – all from Gallium Industries. Each trainer has nearly 20 year’s of experience in the tube industry.
The training programme was well appreciated by Gallium’s customer M/s Aljeeza Steel Pipe Manufacturers of Jordan for making them aware of the technology of tube manufacturing which otherwise would have been learnt by trial and error and at a great cost of material wastage and plant time. The customer was happy to give Gallium a repeat order.
In view of the customer’s appreciation Gallium is planning to conduct such a course again whenever it is able to get clearance from its customers to allow their manufacturing plants to be shown. Gallium will welcome ITA help in this regard to provide this benefit to the tube industry in India.”
In fact the ITA will do more than just help Gallium. It has agreed to sponsor future training courses in two ways: all trainees who complete the course will receive special certificates from the ITA. Furthermore, each trainee will receive one year’s free trial membership of the ITA. The course educational costs are free to the trainees who only have to cover their own travel and lodging expenses.
It is firmly believed that this activity will prove a tremendous help to the local industry and raise the profile of the ITA even higher and it is another clear indication of the Association’s strong commitment to education and technical excellence in the tube and pipe industry.
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