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Future on Tracks
A Taoist story tells of an old man who accidentally fell
into the river rapids leading to a high and dangerous waterfall.
Onlookers feared for his life. Miraculously, he came out alive
and unharmed downstream at the bottom of the falls. People
asked him how he managed to survive. "I accommodated
myself to the water, not the water to me. Without thinking,
I allowed myself to be shaped by it. Plunging into the swirl,
I came out with the swirl. This is how I survived."
You can interpret the story the way you want. But it finally
swirls down to one thing, our ability to adapt to the changing
norms of the game, and how creatively we respond to the constant
called change. That's the way the crushing equipment manufacturing
industry has adapted itself to the fast changing quality requirement
of the construction industry. The trends are indicative of
the potential - bigger capacity plants, enhanced quality products,
huge volumes in a shorter time span, and most importantly,
its mobile.
But there are areas of concerns. We need to go a long way
as far as the environmental standards are concerned for the
crushing and screening industry. Its heartening to find that
renowned players are offering dust suppression systems, screen
covers, etc, but the issue is, these are optional features.
It calls for not only stringent standards, but an effective
implementing system as well. Else it will be like the VSI
crushers installed as showpieces at many sites, that are seldom
used (due to exorbitant power cost). Here, aggregates with
a combined flakiness and elongation index of more than 40
per cent (where the accepted cubicity index is 30 per cent)
conveniently pass the sieve of 'the chalega attitude'.
EQUIPMENT INDIA interacts with many major players and provides
you an exclusive report on the emerging challenges and how
the industry is creatively responding to them. This is happening
at a time when the construction industry serves as a crucial
link for the fructification of the government's massive investment
plan for the 11th Five Year
Plan amounting to US $ 475 billion. Roughly 20 per cent of
this (US $ 95 billion) needs to spent on machinery.
The industry is poised to go only one way. Up. And the equipment
industry must rise up to the challenge in terms of volumes,
quality, range and availability.
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