CII EXCON 2009 Road Show in Colombo

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), an apex industry association is organizing Excon 2009, India's largest and only focused construction equipment and construction technology trade fair between November 25 -29 at Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC), Bangalore, India. This five-day exhibition is expected to attract over 350 exhibitors and 50,000 business visitors from across the globe.

The CII with its strategic partner in Sri Lanka, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, organized a Road Show in promotion of EXCON 2009 in Colombo, recently. Over 100 participants representing the construction, building materials and engineering sectors of Sri Lanka were present at the promotion. Ministry of Construction and Engineering Services of Sri Lanka Secretary, Nissanka Wijeratne was the Chief Guest at the event.

Excon 2009 Steering Committee Member and Schwing Stetter India Pvt Ltd, Managing Director Anand Sundaresan in his presentation on Excon 2009 said, "Excon is Asia's third largest trade fair for equipment industry and amongst world's top ten construction equipment and construction technology trade fairs". Besides showcasing world class products and services in the construction equipment sector, it would also demonstrate the technological prowess of the construction equipment industry.

Sundaresan said that the Government of India has accorded top priority for the growth of the infrastructure sector. To achieve a new vision of growth, the Planning Commission of the Government of India has estimated a planned investment of US $ 500 billion in infrastructure in the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2012).

The projected investment in the roads sector, including national highways and rural roads is USD 76 billion, of which a large part is expected to come from private sector, said Sundaresan.

He also said that India is increasingly becoming the construction equipment and component sourcing base for the industry and hence the construction and infrastructure sector in Sri Lanka can utilize Excon 2009 to identify potential business partners for sourcing construction equipment/technologies.

Excon 2009, is an excellent platform for the Government of Sri Lanka to identify potential industry partners in the construction equipment sector, who could offer their expertise and services in the rehabilitation activities such as; construction of highways, housing, sanitation, etc.

Sundaresan said that currently in its fifth edition, Excon has grown to become one of the important construction equipment events in Asia Pacific. On behalf of CII, he invited all participants to visit Bangalore to attend Excon 2009 event. Excon 2009 would feature participation of international exhibitors from over 90 companies. There will be international pavilions from Germany, United Kingdom, Italy and China.

Excon 2009 is a demonstrative exhibition wherein most exhibitors do active demonstrations of their equipment to communicate to the visitors on the versatility/capability of the equipment. In short, he said that Excon 2009 will be "the One Stop Shop for the Construction Equipment buying".

Exhibits on display include dozers, earth excavators, front end loaders, graders and vibratory soil compactors, paving equipment, integrated concrete-bitumen batching, mixing equipment, mobile and stationary crushing equipment, material handling equipment, hydraulic and pneumatic drilling equipment, sewer construction and maintenance systems, conduit construction systems, trenchers, underground cable-laying, pipe laying, drainage and trench digging equipment, lubricants and tyres.

Apart from the exhibition, Excon 2009 will organize a CEOs Roundtable on Construction Equipment Industry on November 26 at Bangalore.