re: The home / office air-conditioner thread Quote:
Originally Posted by devarshi84 I can bet Videocon has similar units as Godrej and Onida. I have seen them inside hence sure of it. I own one such Videocon unit which performs flawlessly. But Being a Pure Chinese product I wouldn't buy/recommend it again.
Hitachi has a plant near Ahmedabad. I am not sure about the components though. |
Videocon has not one but two manufacturing locations at Aurangabad and Ranjangaon. They initially used to assemble air cons & refridgerators using designs from Panasonic under license. Of late not much is known of that JV. In line with the demands of business they must be using certain componentes made in the PRC but they are not known to have been importing completely built Chinese machines. This company has a strong manufacturing base and some of the best QC in the industry. They are very strong in non metro, semi urban type of markets which today are the fastest growing as far as white goods are concerned.
Hitachi (HHLI) has their plant and head office in Kadi, Gujarat. It is one of the largest aircon equipment manufacturing facilities in the country and one of 10 such facilities that Hitachi has around the World. Compressors and IDUs are made in house. ODUs are outsourced. Quote:
Originally Posted by navan49 Yesterday went to buy a microwave oven. .... ....Once again I have to start the hunt from 0. |
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Originally Posted by reignofchaos Khoj are you sure about Panasonics being assembled in india? Both my aircons which I bought earlier this year are made in malaysia. |
Panasonic has set up a facility in Pondicherry for assembly of aircons. Now depending on the demand from the markets and their given production capacity they might be doing a mix of local assembly and imports. Then again certain range or type of aircons only might be getting assembled here. There are a lot of grey areas here and unless one has specific info from inside one relies on newspapers, business magazine/website articles etc and general talks with distributors etc. That's the reason I opened with the phrase "educated guess at best"
Last edited by khoj : 25th October 2011 at 01:01.
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