UK Minister visits Renishaw during India-UK TECH Summit

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UK Minister visits Renishaw during India-UK TECH Summit

New Delhi, November 2016 – Renishaw, the global engineering technologies company, hosted a visit to its Pune, India facility on 9th November 2016 by Liam Fox, British Secretary of State for International Trade. During his visit he toured the 80,000 sq.ft building where he saw a state-of-the-art metal 3D printing facility, a manufacturing unit that services the Renishaw Group, and a large R&D software facility. The Secretary of State was also presented with a unique metal gift produced on a Renishaw additive manufacturing (3D printing) system and planted a commemorative tree.

The visit coincided with the India-UK TECH Summit, held in New Delhi from 7 to 9 November, which marked a celebration of India and UK’s partnership across business, technology, science, innovation, education and design.

Hosting the visit was Rhydian Pountney, Renishaw’s Director and General Manager – UK/ROW Sales Division, who is responsible for the company’s sales and marketing activities in India. He is also co-chair of the Advanced Engineering Working Group of the annual India-UK Joint Economic and Trade Committee (JETCO) which met in New Delhi as part of the Summit.

Mr Pountney co-chaired ‘The Future of Manufacturing’ workshop with Dr Gopichand Katragadda, the Group Chief Technology Officer at Tata Sons. The workshop brought together a wide cross-section of industry, academia and R&D institutions with an interest in Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing collaboration between the UK and India.

“Renishaw has been operating in India for over 30 years and I was able to show the Secretary of State how our long-term commitment to India has been beneficial to both Renishaw and the Indian economy,” said Mr Pountney. “Today we employ 350 skilled people in India, the majority based at our Pune site in Maharashtra, who directly contribute to the R&D and manufacture of our world leading innovative precision measurement, 3D printing and healthcare products.”

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