Staff Reporter | 19 Jun, 2008
With nearly 80 percent of participants from the SME (small and medium enterprises) sector, International Auto Components and Machine Tools Exhibition, popularly known as ACMEE 2008, is beginning in Chennai today will go a long way to promote the sector in a big way.

This eighth biennial edition of the International Auto Components and Machine Tools Exhibition is being held at the Chennai Trade Centre from June 19 to 23. The event, organised by the Ambattur Industrial Estate Manufacturers’ Association (AIEMA) and the AIEMA Technology Centre, would provide an ideal platform for marketing innovative engineering technologies and products across the globe.

Dilip Kumbhat, Chairman, ACMEE 2008, said that more than 420 exhibitors would participate in the event. Of them, 40 were from China, Hong Kong, France, Germany, the UK and the US.

"It would be an excellent forum for exchanging diverse product information, technical details and business contacts, besides market information and outsourcing potentiality," Kumbhat said.

The exhibition will cover all engineering goods and services besides auto components and machine tools.

Concurrent with the exhibition, a buyer-seller meet on auto components would be organised in a big way, Kumbhat said.

Auto majors like Cummins India, Simpson & Co. Mitsuba, SICAL India, Lucas TVS, Greaves Cotton, Rane Madras and Brakes India will participate in the exhibition.

Kumbhat said the present exhibition area represented a 42 percent increase over the previous one held in 2006.

"With nearly 80 percent of the participants from the SME sector, the event was all set to promote the sector in a big way," Kumbhat added.