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The Engineering and Manufacturing Business Unit has significant traction in several areas in 2018 that is
ENGINEERING based technology company that will produce in India products which will be used by UPS and Fed-ex to make
showing great promise.
On the Make in India manufacturing outsourcing side, Rahul and I reached an agreement with a Silicon Valley

over-the-road trucks more aerodynamic and fuel efficient. The client and I will be traveling together soon to
India to assess the factories where the products will be made.
The Construction Equipment Group led by Bhavik Shah has captured several customers including redesigning
a Truck Boom Crane with Elliot Equipment in Omaha. Sagar Pawar has just returned from Omaha. We have
heard very good things about the work the team has been doing for Elliot. Sagar returned to India and was
replaced by a new engineering associate named Prashant Jagatap.

This sector will grow significantly in 2018. We have begun projects with Terex, for their crane assembly plant
in Oklahoma City and German-based Schwing’s US plants in Minneapolis and Chicago.
Sandip is at Terex now nearing the end of a Lean Six Sigma shop floor improvement initiative that involved
fixing serious problems in the assembly lines for several lines of cranes at Terex. The team consisting of
Sandip Suryavanshi, Devesh Gangele, Aniket Nemade, Prashant Chavan, Sunil Kulkarni and Mayuresh Medhi
are returning to India in April. The client reported exceptional performance. By the way Aniket’s wife is
expecting and Prashant had a child shortly before his coming to the States. Congratulations.

Mahendra Gaikwad is a new addition to the Manufacturing Engineering team who is currently at a plant in
Chicago recently acquired by Schwing. Mahendra is documenting the assembly of a conveyorized concrete
crane that will be moved to Schwing’s main plant in Minnesota. This work fits very well with the manufacturing
engineering work like what Sandip is doing with his team at Terex. Because of Mahendra’ s good work, we
are expecting a continued long-term relationship with Schwing.
Next week Bhavik Shah and I are traveling to Germany to visit Manitowoc Crane. Bhavik ran the Pune center
for Manitowoc which had around 125 associates. We have not reached an agreement yet with Manitowoc,
but we hope our trip will put them in the WIN column. This would be a major business capture for the
Engineering Group. Keep your fingers crossed for us. No pressure Bhavik.
We also have a lot of traction in the automation sector with several clients asking us to provide services in
Mechatronics. So far, these clients are in the medical device business, assembling syringes and IV bags
among other things. We believe automation will be a major growth area in the near term.
Best
-Ray Bellan

www.katalysttech.com