Union Minister Of Heavy Industries Lays Foundation Stone Of CEFC At Bardoli In Gujarat

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Union Minister Of Heavy Industries Lays Foundation Stone Of CEFC At Bardoli In Gujarat

Union Minister of Heavy Industries Anant Geete laid the foundation stone for the Common Engineering Facility Centre (CEFC) building at SVP College at Bardoli in Gujarat recently.

With this development, South Gujarat will get its first CEFC for textile machinery which will come up on five acres of land at the Faculty of Engineering Technology and Research (FETR) at Bardoli, some 35 kilometres away from Surat.

It will be constructed at the cost of Rs 50 crore by Science Engineering and Technological Upliftment (SETU) foundation with the support of local industry associations like Surat Engineering Vikas Association (SEVA), Textile Machinery Manufacturers Association of India (TMMAI) and Sardar Vallabhai Patel Education Society, Bardoli.

In December-2016, SETU foundation had signed an MoU with the Department of Heavy Industries, under the Government of India’s Ministry of Heavy industries and Public Enterprises, to set up a CEFC at Bardoli for textile machinery.

The facility would enable textile machinery manufacturers to develop capital goods to meet the large requirements.

According to SETU Chairman Hetal Mehta, CEFC is basically a product development-cum-training centre to upgrade textile technology and quality of production to match global standards.

The facility is expected to help Medium and Small Enterprises (MSME) in South Gujarat to improve the quality of their machinery with the use of advance engineering and will provide facilities like product and prototype development, product and machine design boutique, skill development and training, material testing as well as calibration and heat treatment unit.