Marzoli is opening a new facility in Bangalore for sales, service, spare parts and customer support to the Indian market. It will also be shortly manufacturing the Marco Polo automatic doffing components for being retrofitted on the existing ring frames.
Even more important is that Marzoli and its agent in the North, Eastern Engineering Company, Mumbai, are organising and opening electronic service stations for assistance and spare parts supply in order to provide immediate service and support to Indian customers.
Making an assessment of the Marzoli in India during his recent discussion with The Textile Magazine, Mr. Stefano Bordoni, Sales Manager of Indian operation, gave his expert answers to several related questions raised by the journal.
Excerpts:
Question: What’s your feeling about the Indian market situation for this year?
Answer: Frankly speaking, I can only tell you about Marzoli situation on the Indian market, where despite the general trend that seemed not so good for spinners, we improved a lot our presence thanks to good orders. More specifically we were able to sell a good number of combing sections and roving frames, mainly in the South. Furthermore we have also succeeded in getting an order for a complete spinning installation (right from blow room through ring spinning frames in Maharashtra).
Q: Do you still have the tie-up with Swiss company Rieter Machine Works?
A: Of course, we have. About 10 days ago, we signed the renewal of the Supply Agreement with Rieter for our Roving Machines until 2014. This means that we have been supplying to Rieter for nearly two decades the Roving Frames for their installations all over the world.
Q: Why is it that there are not many Rieter-Marzoli roving frames in India even though there are complete Rieter plants installed?
A: In the first few years, when complete plants were supplied, our roving machines were invariably included. However, lately Rieter leaves the customer choose more economical solutions that anyway are also less performing in terms of efficiency and final quality. With the excellent technology of our roving frames, I am confident that even this difference in price will be covered due to superior performances. Moreover, our latest comber has been well accepted in the Indian market and repeat orders have started coming in, maybe this is also another reason why Rieter is not suggesting our roving frame as in the past. We are confident of positioning ourselves in the top category for the combing machines as we are already for our roving frames.
Q: What do you feel the prospects of Marzoli in India?
A: We had very good success during the recent ITMA exhibition not only from India but also from several countries where negotiations are in a advanced stage.