Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association

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Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association
AbbreviationIMTMA
Formation1946;78 years ago (1946)
Type Non-governmental trade association
Purpose Policy advocacy
Headquarters Bangalore, India
Area served
India
ServicesPolicy Advocacy
Imparting Training for Machine Tool and Manufacturing Industries
Business Development
Conferences and Trade Fairs
Field Machine tools
Members
484
Employees89
Website www.imtma.in

Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association (IMTMA) is the apex industry body for the machine tool sector in India. Comprising large-, medium- and small-scale units, the membership of IMTMA includes manufacturers in the entire range of metal working machine tools, accessories and other ancillary equipment for machine tools, cutting tools and tooling systems along with trading companies.

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Objectives

IMTMA supports the machine tool industry of India in increasing its competitiveness, technology, productivity and quality for overall advancement and growth. The association has actively supported initiatives for advancement of metalworking manufacturing industry in India.

Association activities

Membership

The membership of IMTMA is open to any Indian company including large, medium and small scale units engaged in metalworking machine tools, machine tool consumables, accessories and other ancillary equipment for machine tool industry.

Policy advocacy

The association vouches member concerns to the government for formulating policies supporting the machine tool industry. IMTMA provides policy inputs to various government agencies on specific issues referred to it from time to time.

Publications

IMTMA consistently produces research publications. These publications, including the Comprehensive Metal Working Report, Market Research Reports, User Sector Updates, and more, are published at regular intervals and are accessible to both the public and member companies. Covering a wide range of topics, Additionally, IMTMA's newsletters and industry databases serve as resources.

Export development

IMTMA supports the export efforts of its members through various initiatives such as group participation in overseas fairs, trade missions, etc. In view of the periodic variation in machine tool markets it is imperative to develop a healthy market mix between domestic and export market.

Cluster development

IMTMA Cluster Development cell was conceptualized and implemented for the overall development of the cluster. This initiative acted as a focal point for all formal and informal linkages between various cluster actors.

Technology development

IMTMA has taken several initiatives to catalyze technology development among its members and open up new opportunities for research and development by initiating academia-industry cooperation in R&D projects. IMTMA helps members with their technology issues by identifying suitable academic / R&D institutions which have required expertise to develop solutions for them. After sustained advocacy with the Government of India, it was possible to create an Advanced Centre of Excellence for R&D and Technology Development in machine tools with IIT, Madras. This will help develop new technology and products by the machine tool units where the government funds 80% of the development cost as a grant.

C-MAT

As a result of IMTMA's interaction, the Government of India in the year 2009 constituted a C-MAT (Core Advisory Group for Research and Development in the Machine Tools Sector). The industry has implemented several R&D projects through industry-academia partnership by this scheme.

Regional councils

The regional councils of IMTMA promote the growth of the association activities and in particular serve as brand ambassadors for membership enhancement drive. IMTMA has 3 regional councils which play a role in addressing issues of regional importance and serve as liaison between IMTMA head office and regional members.

Centre of excellence

Bangalore International Exhibition Centre

Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) was conceptualized by IMTMA with an objective of providing an international standard infrastructure for organizing trade exhibitions, industrial conferences and other business-to-business (B2B) events. Besides hosting IMTEX, BIEC acted as the facilitator for business cooperation in a wide segment of industries such as capital goods, oil and gas equipment, plastics processing, telecom equipment, textile machinery sector, food processing and dairy equipment, automobiles, auto components, aluminum extrusion, electrical and electronics industries and many more.

BIEC venue has also been used by leading industry associations such as Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) and many other trade associations for their B2B events. Some of these being:

BIEC has hosted prominent events organized by the Government of India as well as the Government of Karnataka at its premises. These being:

Expansion

BIEC has constructed a new hall of 17,500 m2, which is an add-on facility to its existing infrastructure. The newly built Hall 4 was inaugurated by Mr. Girish Shankar, Department of Heavy Industry, Ministry of Heavy Industries, Govt. of India on 26 January 2017. IMTEX 2017 inaugurated by Chief Minister of Karnataka Shri Siddaramaiah was the first exhibition held in this hall.

History

The history of the association is the history of the machine tool industry in India. The concept of binding machine tool manufacturers into an association was first mooted at an informal gathering of ‘like-minded’ manufacturers. The manufacturers met at a formal gathering in New Delhi on 20 September 1946 to concretise the thoughts of bringing together all machine tool manufacturers under one umbrella body. The meeting chaired by Sir Dhunjishaw B. Cooper came up with the name of "Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association" or IMTMA in short for this umbrella body representing the interest of the machine tool industry. The association was granted instant recognition by the government as a body representing machine tool manufacturers in the country. IMTMA was constituted with 19 members.

Executive committee

The seal of recognition of IMTMA was affirmed at the first meeting of the association's executive committee on 28 August 1947 at Indian Merchant's Chamber in Bombay. The chairman of the first executive committee was Sir Dhunjishaw B. Cooper.

Annual meeting

The first annual general meeting of IMTMA was held on 29 January 1948 at Indian Merchant's Chamber at Lalji Naranji Memorial Building in Bombay. A meeting of the first-elected members of IMTMA executive committee followed the first annual general meeting. The meeting unanimously elected M.B. Jambhekar as president of IMTMA and D.S. Mulla as the first vice president of the association. Subsequent annual general meetings of the association were held every year.

Registration

IMTMA was reconstituted as an association registered under the Indian Companies Act in Bombay on 26 March 1973.

Secretariat

In its early days the association operated from Bombay. In 1965 IMTMA moved into its own premises in Rampart Row. In 1991 the association shifted from Bombay to Delhi. IMTMA office in Bangalore came into existence two years later in 1993. With nearly 50% of the machine tool companies being based in Bangalore besides a large concentration of manufacturers in prominent industry sectors such as aerospace, defence, etc. also in the city, IMTMA felt the need of setting up a Centre of Excellence to cater requirements of the industries based in the region and also the need to have a world class exhibition infrastructure. With those thoughts BIEC was constituted. This eventually became the head office of IMTMA and the Gurgaon office becoming the regional office in north.

IMTEX

The first “All India Machine Tool Exhibition” was held in 1969 in the premises Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Private Limited in Vikhroli, Mumbai, over 7,000 square metres. Initially christened as the “All India Machine Tool Exhibition”, this later became “IMTEX”. Bombay continued to host IMTEX for the next two decades until 1989. In 1992, IMTEX moved from Bombay to New Delhi and was held in Pragati Maidan with participation from over 600 companies. IMTEX and concurrent Tooltech exhibition was held in Bangalore for the first time in 2007, when IMTMA constructed a new venue called the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC). IMTMA continues to host the IMTEX (metal cutting) every odd year and IMTEX FORMING (metal forming) every even year at BIEC.

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