DESMI launches first production facility in India

Hyderabad, Feb 23: DESMI, a Denmark-based company specialising in the development and manufacture of pump solutions for marine & offshore industry, oil spill equipment, defence & fuel and utility segment, on Wednesday launched its first production facility in India.The facility at Nadergul village, Adibatla near here was inaugurated by Danish Ambassador Peter Taksoe-Jensen.DESMI, which started its Indian operations with a liaison office in 2013, has set up an 3,000 sqm advanced production facility at Adibatla.Its rimary focus would be to produce oil spill response equipment and then to assemble the pumps and pumping solutions locally in India, the company said in a statement."We expect the stable political environment with focus on growing the economy, improving infrastructure, and make in India, to mention some, to give us even more business opportunities in future," said Group CEO Henrik Sorensen."By second quarter of 2017, we will be ready with the assembly center for the production of pumps and pumping solutions for the local market," said DESMI India Managing Director A.V.S. Murthy.