To further strengthen its India presence, the Company plans on adding more skilled manpower to enhance their local R&D centre and Product Management to focus on developing more products for the Indian market.

"Embracing the ‘Make in India' initiative, the manufacturing facility in Schmersal India is enhancing its product range by designing and manufacturing customised safety products as per the needs of the customer specific application, for the local market as well as export to the Schmersal Group from their 100% export-oriented unit (EOU) located within the current Indian factory. Also, we have set up a free trade and warehousing zone (FTWZ) near Mumbai, which is specifically for global Indian companies who are allowed to import goods at a special concessional duty," proclaimed Sagar Bhosale, the Managing Director, Schmersal India Pvt. Ltd.

By the end of 2017, the Indian Factory manufactured and supplied more than one million safety switches in India market. Current manufacturing capacity is five million safety switches per year.

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