Mr. Babu Joins Tooltech to Head the Automotive Group

Mr. N.S. Babu joined Tooltech, India as Head, Automotive. Armed with a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering, he has over 40 years of experience in Tata Motors where he retired as Head of R&D. He has extensive experience in Passenger Car Design and Tool Design, being a key player in developing the Indica and Safari Cars and their successive models from the conceptual stage. At Tooltech he will be responsible for driving the automotive business, particularly in the Body Design area.

Tooltech drives BMW

Tooltech speeds up process of redirecting work from Munich to India Office
The last quarter of 2006 saw Tooltech set up an office exclusively for BMW. The manner in which Tooltech gained the confidence of the client through implementation of a global delivery model, and followed it up by setting up a BMW project office in Pune with direct connectivity to BMW servers, truly sets it apart.

Role of BMW India Group
The BMW India Group has already participated in the BMW meshing and crash simulation projects. The group is now working on engine meshing and assembly projects for pedestrian safety analysis.

The Road Ahead
Tooltech aims at building a skilled and competent team. An aggressive recruitment strategy has seen it set up a brand new office to accommodate its growing employees, work and vision. The new office has been set up at Gamma 1, Gigaspace, Pune.

Tooltech spreads its Wings to Romania

Now a new delivery centre has been added to Tooltech's growing base - Tooltech Romania.

Tooltech recently acquired a 50% stake in Design Tech, a Romanian company, now renamed as Tooltech Romania. Setting up office here is in line with Tooltech's vision of providing customers with cost-effective solutions, by expanding base to more affordable destinations.

Tooltech Romania will aid in providing seamless solutions to clients, in tandem with Tooltech Deustschland, which mainly does work for BMW. In fact, the idea to expand operations in Romania was born out of BMW's thinking of increasingly undertaking body shell design workings in cost-effective regions.

While Germany provides high quality, Romania provides cost advantage. Hence clients such as BMW stand to gain on both fronts. The Tooltech Romania office will mainly focus on automotive engineering, with an independent set up for BMW.

Tiberiu Rus, Managing Director of Design Tech will continue to head the Tooltech Romania office, aided by 15 engineers as of now. The coming years will see a rapid expansion of the Romania office to benefit more clients.

Norwegian Oil & Gas Major Fabricom partners with Tooltech

for the set up of a dedicated India Engineering Centre for upto 100 engineers. Fabricom is the 3rd largest EPC (Engineering Procurement & Construction) Company within Norway. It has a wide experience in the Oil and Gas field in offshore areas. In a bid to offload some of its design work, they have agreed to partner with Tooltech in the offshore platform engineering area.

HAL awards unique helicopter interior project to Tooltech

Tooltech has been awarded a first of its kind contract to manage the VVIP interior design & prototype of an ALH Helicopter to FAR Part 29 Standards, for HAL. This it the largest design contract awarded by HAL to design and execute the "next level" of engineering, conforming to global standards at a "new" cost. As a result, Tooltech will be amongst the few companies worldwide with the expertise to produce a "world class" aircraft interior at an "Indian cost". The work involves collaborative research & design work with companies based in Germany & the UK.

Tooltech to set up dedicated Ship Design Centre

Tooltech has been awarded a landmark contract to set up a dedicated India Engineering Centre for Aker Yards, one the world's five largest ship builders, from scratch. Tooltech has earned a reputation within the European market for excellence in engineering knowledge management, collaborative and cultural integration. Aker Yards has extended the relationship to include its entities in France, Germany & Norway.