India one of our prime partner: Airbus

Berlin: Chief Executive Officer and president of Airbus Industrie Tom Enders has said his company is “definitely interested” in exploring production possibilities in India. “It [manufacturing] is something we would consider. The question is should we consider manufacturing ourselves or should we look for partners who would do that,” Mr. Enders told The Hindu after a news conference during which he said that going global without being present in India was impossible.
During the course of the news conference attended by journalists from all parts of the world, Mr. Enders singled out India.
“You can’t be global without being in India — with its large number of highly skilled, motivated and knowledgeable people. We are already capitalising on the incredible energy and entrepreneurial spirit in the country. We have initiated research and technical cooperation with some of the most respected Indian universities and laboratories. Airbus has started small but thinks big,” he said.
Last year Airbus opened its first Indian Airbus Engineering Centre in Bangalore. “We started with 25 engineers and will now quickly grow to 300 Indian employees. Together with suppliers, the number is over 1,000. And I believe there is more to come,” said the Airbus CEO.
“Indian engineers at our centre are an empowered lot. They are contributing to increasing the efficiency of our design and production processes. As a result, in an industry like software and place like Bangalore, we have had zero attrition rate since we opened last year,” CEO of the Design Centre Eugen Welte told
29/05/08 Sandeep Dikshit/The Hindu

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