India Is A Huge Market For Rebar Processing

India Is A Huge Market for Rebar Processing

"We are number one in the world and have 50% market share in India, whereas 25% globally. In India, there is a huge potential, all areas of rebar processing have a great demand. The trend of processed steel will be changed, from job site to service centers, in the years to come. Indians are more open to Innovation and technology," says Mr. Massimiliano Corinaldesi, in an interview with Rajini Shankar.

Tell us the brief history of Gute machinery, and the journey of the thirty people’s dream to turn a dirty, hard and difficult job of rebar processing, into a modern, organized and technology-driven activity.

Gute Machinery was founded in 1994, as an engineering company. Main activities at that time involved designing and manufacturing of machines suitable for rebar cutting and bending on the job sites (that was prevalent in that period). From 2000, Gute machinery has been involved in solving the problem concerning cage–assembling, creating the first machine suitable for the automatic assembling of stirrups, and using this method, achieved 60% of cost reduction in assembling.

2010 decreed Gute’s technology leadership, due to the conception of solutions absolutely new and patented, far more innovative than anyone’s expectations.

Tell us about your products in brief and their applications.

Concerning our role, first of all we prefer to speak about solutions rather than products. Actually our definition is Consultants rather than Sellers: The customer shows us his needs, we analyse them, value and speak with the customer and once we get all the information, we provide the proposal, as we are the customer.

Our dream is to have a fully automated factory to reduce manpower, and increase production with the same heads.

Tell us the advantages and disadvantages in manual cutting and bending of bars vs. automated cutting and bending.

There are clear advantages in the automated system of cutting and bending. It ensures high volume of production in minimum time. Since the machinery is fully automated and fast, execution time can be saved, and the Inventory holding time, can be reduced considerably. Wastage of steel is minimum, as steel in coils are used for Stirrups and for Cutting and bending rods below 12mm, an optimizing software is used to reduce the wastage in straight bars. With space constraints everywhere, the process will help execution of steel work in minimum time and Bar bending labor at site, would be required, only for tying. There is no necessity to provide large working and storing area, labor camp and security for materials. Expenditure on all these areas is eliminated. Creates centralized activity for multiple locations. This can improve costing and productivity.

Give us a peek into Gute machinery’s R & D division, quality norms and training, what is its current emphasis on?

Gute’s current thrust is in process coiling and assembly processing. Gute is ISO 9001:2000 certified company, besides that there are a lot of certified procedures pertaining to each department in the company, which are continually updated with its development.

We impart training to our workmen on a regular basis, twice or thrice a year.

Who are your prestigious customers globally, and in India?

The list regarding our important customers, on a worldwide scale, is too long to be provided, we’ll risk to forget some important customers, however to list a few, the following are our prestigious customers worldwide, Gute machinery exported more than 70 countires right now and the top 1 exportor in China and takes more than 70% shares of bar processing machinery export.

What is the Indian position and the global position of Gute machinery on the map of rebar processing. What's Gute’s Corporate ‘Vision’?

Our dream is to turn rebar processing–a dirty, hard and difficult job–into a modern, organized, clean and technological industrial activity, something for the businessmen and workers of our times.

Future plans for Gute global, and the India manufacture and sales company.

Any other comments you wish to share with us?

In India, there is a huge potential, all areas of rebar processing have a great demand. The trend of processed steel will be changed, from Job site to Service centers, in the years to come. Indians are more open to Innovation and technology.