| The 25th Factory Day Celebrations of Sanmar
Engineering Corporation at Karapakkam on July 1, 2001, was an
occasion to remember the contributions made by those responsible
for sowing the seeds for the successful partnerships forged
by the group over the last quarter century. |
| Speaking on the occasion, N Sankar paid tributes
to the foresight of S R Seshadri, former Executive Director,
SEC, who had identified mechanical seals as critical equipment
in the process industry for manufacture by SEC. He was addressing
employees, their families and other invitees on the occasion.
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| M N Radhakrishnan, Managing Director, SEC,
recalled how S R Seshadri was instrumental in identifying a
succession of related products of vital importance to the process
industry and led SEC to the world leaders in those technologies. |
| Reg Ingram, Vice President, Supply Chain Management,
Tyco International, spoke of his earlier association with Indian
business when he set up a facility at Baroda and near Chennai,
before Tyco took over the Crosby valve business of FMC Corporation,
USA, and decided he was the man to be involved in the joint
venture with SEC when they chose to continue. |
| Mike Sandling, Executive Vice President, Strategic
Development, Xomox Corporation, spoke of his experiences of
setting up the Xomox facility at Viralimalai and expressed satisfaction
at the way the joint venture relationship had grown into one
of mutual respect and trust. |
| Dan Button, Vice President, Fisher Asia, said
Emerson Electric who took over the Fisher business, directed
Fisher to go in for a partnership with Sanmar, based on their
experience with Sanmar. |
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| Warm welcome at Sanmar Engineering Corporation,
Karapakkam. |
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