OREANDA-NEWS. February 28, 2011. Russia presented a product range of the most competitive industrial machines CHETRA at a largest construction Fair -  A Bauma CONEXPO Show India, reported the press-centre of CHETRA. 

Machinery and  Industrial Group N.V. has brought here in India the most popular Russian industrial machines, which are used in oil&gas, coal, mining industries and road building of India over 20 years.

To fulfill the growing demand of Indian customers in technically advanced M&IG industrial production there was established a 100 subsidiary - CHETRA Machinery India Pvt. Ltd.. "Today the company offers dozers with the power range 90-590 hp, pipe layers with the lifting capacity 25-104 t for the pipelines with the tube diam. 200-1420 mm; wheel loaders with the bucket capacity 3. 5 to 6. 7 c.m. and operating power range 140-600 hp; various types of special equipments for Pipeline cleaning, priming, heating & Insulation works; excavators with 23 ton operating capacity," CMI CEO Benjamin Callow said at the ceremony of CHETRA stand inauguration. The main competitive advantages of the Russian machines are available price, robust construction and the use of the best Russian technology, he added.

"CHETRA machines are robust in design and construction; the metallurgy adopted for manufacture of critical parts suits well to the Indian condition and performance as a whole extremely satisfactory", one of the main partners  SBM AGENCY PVT. LTD. Director M.P. BALKRISHNAN says. According to his opinion, having offered competitive prices, the company would be able to  increase the volume of its dozers in the Indian market enormously.

The Inauguration of the Russian CHETRA stand has attracted a lot of guests and visitors - The Russian Consular general in Mumbai Alexey Novikov, Trade representative Mikhail Rapota, M&IG vice-presidents Vladimir Lepin and Vadim Kalabashkin, vice-president of the Association of Equipment Manufactures Megan Tanel as well as media, partner and dealer companies. 

During his welcome speech the trade representative Mikhail Rapota mentioned the importance of the plans of M&IG N.V., the 3-d largest producer of heavy industrial machines, to create a production unit here in India that is aimed at fulfilling of the growing demand and implementation of the high-quality after-sales services. "The importance of those plans has grown enormously after the official visit of the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in India, when a new technological emphasis of the international partnership has been made, - he said, - today CHETRA is fairly representing Russia in different global markets, showing  the best scientific and technical developments of the Russian specialists. "