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LG looks to enhance lead in TV segment with products tailored for India

Korean consumer electronics major LG will continue to introduce products in the home entertainment segment tailored for India to maintain its leadership position, according to senior company officials. LG Electronics India, which on Wednesday launched 55 AI-enabled television models, expects to grow 25-30 per cent this year in its home entertainment (HE) vertical. India is the most important market globally, a company official said. "There is a growing demand for large screen TVs in India and we are constantly enhancing our portfolio with products like the World's largest 97-inch TV with vibrant picture quality, advanced AI-powered processing technologies...With this new lineup, we aim to further enhance our market leadership in flat panel TV in India," LG Electronics India Managing Director Hong Ju Jeon said. The company plans to enhance its India-specific product lineups. "LG Electronics thinking about the Indian market is not one of the important markets, but it is the most ...

Electronics industry sees 154% growth in hiring and skilling: Quess report

The telecom domain tops hiring demand within the electronics industry, accounting for 64 per cent of hiring, followed by lighting and automotive sectors

India needs to double electronics manufacturing: Tata Electronics chairman

India has slowed down on the manufacturing front and needs to double down on electronics manufacturing services (EMS)-designing, manufacturing, testing components and assemblies for original equipment manufacturers, Tata Electronics Chairman Banmali Agrawala said. During a conversation with Vinay Ramesh, COO at the Foundation for Economic Development, Agrawala said India has gone 'slow' on the manufacturing front and needed to ensure that the sector, which accounts for 13-15 per cent of India's GDP, has a much larger share as it will create better-paying jobs. "Our share in the global trade in manufacturing is negligible, so there is ample room for growth. Electronics, on its own, has a global trade worth USD 5 trillion. Given the pace of digitalisation the world over, it is only going to grow, and this is something India should be after," Agrawala said, adding that India's domestic consumption is not going to be enough to be able to achieve sustained economic growth. "We have to ha

Schneider Electric to invest Rs 3,200 crore to make India manufacturing hub

Energy management and automation major Schneider Electric said it will invest Rs 3,200 crore by 2026 to make India its manufacturing hub for domestic sales as well as exports. Under the plan, Schneider Electric on Thursday inaugurated a facility with Rs 100 crore investment to produce cooling solutions for data centres in Bengaluru. The company will invest Rs 3,200 crore for making India a manufacturing hub for the group, Schneider Electric India President-Greater India Zone and MD & CEO Deepak Sharma told PTI on the sidelines of plant inauguration. As part of this, the company will set up manufacturing facilities for its various products and solutions across India. He also informed that the company is setting up factories in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Uttarakhand and Odisha. Presently, the company has 30 factories across India, including the new cooling solutions factory inaugurated on Thursday. Sharma informed that the company is alread

Mobile phone manufacturing jumps 21 times to Rs 4.1 trn in 10 yrs: ICEA

Mobile phone manufacturing in value terms jumped 21-fold to Rs 4.1 lakh crore in India in the last 10 years as government policy measures like PLI played a critical role in attracting global players to boost local production, industry body ICEA said in a statement. India now produces 97 per cent of its total mobile phone demand locally and 30 per cent of the total production in financial year 2024 is meant for export, the India Cellular and Electronics Association said. "Mobile phone production surged from Rs 18,900 crore in 2014-15 to an estimated Rs 4,10,000 crore in FY'24, registering an increase of 2000 per cent. In 2014-15, mobile phone exports from India were a mere Rs 1,556 crore. The industry expects to end FY24 with an estimated export of Rs 1,20,000 crore. This would mean a 7500 per cent increase in exports over a decade," ICEA said. According to a note on manufacturing, in the field of smartphones, Apple and Samsung, have played a crucial role in boosting mobile phone ...

India needs multi-pronged approach for ESDM sector, says PwC India

India needs a multi-pronged approach for the Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) sector to leverage the momentum for value chain resilience, as the window of opportunity created by the current geopolitical context is very small, according to a report. "Decisive policy action is the need of the hour," said PwC India's report on 'The India Opportunity: Developing Resilient Electronics Supply Chains'. It noted that India is uniquely placed among global economies, having garnered goodwill as a reliable partner for countries across the world. "The country must now leverage this momentum to ensure that its internal strategy and operations enable it to become future ready. A multi-pronged approach is essential to ensure that the centre of the ESDM sector in India holds firm," the report said. Emphasising that the next decade will be crucial for this, given the window of opportunity for India to be a part of the value chain -- created by the geopolitical context -- is very .

Electronics manufacturing, research get Rs 15,500 cr budget allocation

The government has allocated Rs 15,500 crore for various electronics manufacturing programmes, including semiconductor mission and mobile and IT hardware PLI scheme for FY25. It has proposed Rs 4,203 crore incentives for assembly, test, and packaging plants that can benefit projects like the ones set up by Micron in Gujarat, the proposed plant by Foxconn and HCL joint venture, Tata Group etc. The proposed outlay covers projects for setting up compound semiconductor and sensor plants. The scheme for setting up a semiconductor fab or electronic chip plant in India has been allocated Rs 1,500 crore, Mohali-based semiconductor laboratory Rs 900 crore, design linked incentive scheme Rs 200 crore. In total, various schemes under semiconductor projects will get Rs 6,903 crore allocation. Besides this, the government has proposed enhancing allocation for mobile production linked incentive (PLI) scheme to Rs 6,125 crore in 2024-25 from Rs 4,489 crore in 2023-24. Companies like Dixon, Foxc

NITI plans to boost India's electronics, auto global value chain share

In talks with industry, Centre, states for 4-pronged strategy

Centre to launch Rs 10,000 cr sop scheme to boost chip ancillaries

This plan will be an overhauled version of the SPECS scheme and is likely to be launched at the start of the next financial year

Manufacturing sector expected to reach $1 trn by 2025-26 led by Gujarat

The automobile, electronics, and textile sectors in India have witnessed surge in investment and will lead the manufacturing sector's growth in India, according to a report by Colliers

Govt focus on boosting electronics production; new scheme in works: MeitY

The government's focus is now on boosting electronics component manufacturing in the country and new scheme for the same is in works, a senior government official said on Monday. Speaking at the CII Electronic Summit, S Krishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity), said that 99 per cent local mobile phone market is being met through domestic manufacturing, and for next phase of growth companies need to export by improving competitiveness and enhancing value addition. "If our competitiveness needs to keep getting better then the challenge really is to not just rely on about 10 to 15 per cent of the value addition to assembly units in the country but to look at what else we can do, how can we move up in the value chain?" Krishnan said. He said no one country is ever going to own the entire value chain and it's only going to be a portion of the value chain that India needs to target. "Probably in India's case, the best case will probably be China which has about 40 to 4

99% of mobiles used in India are made in India, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

'Have moved up value chain in electronics manufacturing'

NeST Group's SFO Technologies expected to go public in next 2 yrs: Official

Kochi-based SFO Technologies, the flagship company of the NeST Group, is all set to go public in the next two years' time, the company said on Friday. SFO Technologies, which is one among the largest exporters of electronics hardware in the country, is planning to take the IPO route for major expansion projects, it said. Chairman and Managing Director of NeST N Jehangir said the group has busted the myth that Kerala is not industry friendly. "NeST group, over years, has broken the myth that the state is not industry friendly," he said, adding that in the past 30 years they have not faced any labour issues. In a release issued by the NeST, Jehangir said they employ 35-40 per cent women staff in their plants and development centres in Kerala to encourage women empowerment and gender equality. "Women excel in every facet of operations and management, including mission critical assignments. With over 60-plus Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) customers and exporting to 56 countrie

Corning-Optiemus JV to roll out 1st Made in India smartphone glass by 2024

Initially, the smartphone cover glasses will be given premium finishing in the new facility to be built as part of the 70:30 joint venture between Optiemus and Corning

Daewoo enters Indian consumer electronics market via Kelwon Electronics

South Korean brand Daewoo has entered into fast-growing Indian consumer electronics and appliances market through its licensee partner Kelwon Electronics & Appliances, which has plans to invest around Rs 300 crore in the next three years. Kelwon, which sells products, including Lithium Hybrid Inverters and LED TVs, will introduce products in sectors such as energy and power, and consumer electronics, under brand Daewoo - now owned by South Korean conglomerate POSCO DAEWOO. As per its marketing strategy, Kelwon would adopt a twin brand strategy, where it will place the products under Daewoo in the premium and mid-premium segment, while mass to mid-premium would be catered through its own brand, its Managing Director H S Bhatia said. Kelwon will initially get the Daewoo products manufactured locally here through OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer), under the R&D and technical support from the South Korean brand. However, when the volume picks up substantially in the coming ...

HP to make Chromebook laptops in India in win for PM Modi's tech push

India has been expanding its electronics manufacturing sector as companies diversify production beyond China amid growing Washington-Beijing tensions

Domestic electronic manufacturing up Rs 8 trn, semicon import at Rs 1 trn

Indigenous production of electronic goods in the country more than doubled to Rs 8.25 lakh crore in 2022-23 from Rs 3.88 lakh crore in 2017-18, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a written reply to the Lok Sabha said that semiconductors worth Rs 1,29,703 crore were imported in 2022-23. "As a result of several initiatives taken by the Government and efforts of the industry, the domestic production of electronic goods has increased substantially from Rs 3.88 lakh crore (USD 60 Billion) in 2017-18 to Rs 8.25 lakh crore in 2022-23 (USD 101.9 billion) at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 16.28 per cent," the minister said. The government is focused on its objective of catalysing the overall semiconductor ecosystem to further expand India's already rapidly expanding electronics manufacturing and innovation ecosystem, he added. The minister said that semiconductors form a major part of all electronic products theref

TMS Ep473: Google vs CCI, wearables export, FII buying, Chandrayaan-3

Why is Google attacking CCI? Can India become a wearables powerhouse? Will the FII buying spree continue? What is Chandrayaan-3 mission? All answers here

India set to achieve $300 bn electronics manufacturing target: MoS IT

The govt is right on the path to achieve the $300 bn electronics manufacturing target which will be a massive 20-25 times growth in almost a decade, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT said

Backed by mobile devices, electronics up 2 notches to 4th place in exports

In this period, electronics exports touched $4.54 billion, an increase of 48 per cent from the previous year in the same period when it was $3.06 billion