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Mineral-based industries |
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The main mineral wealth of the state is granite, limestone and lignite. The availability of different varieties of granite in different parts of the state has resulted in a booming granite industry. Over the years the granite industry has grown contributing to more than 35% of the country's exports. The current annual production of cement is over 5 million tonnes. Lignite is being used to generate power. Graphite is yet another mineral offering opportunities for downstream industries |
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Engineering |
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A strong engineering base exists in the state involving products ranging from automobiles, bicycles, castings and forgings, to textile machines, electrical and non-electrical machinery, pumps and transportation equipment, engineering ancillary industries all of which are concentrated in Chennai (Madras), Coimbatore, Salem ,etc. The exports of engineering products from Tamil Nadu is around Rs.14.50 billion (US $ 320 million) of which automobile ancillaries alone contribute around US $ 150 million. It is an established fact that the automobile industry in the state accounts for nearly 50% of the all |
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India export market. The strong engineering base consists of a network of nearly 3,000 units, employing a skilled workforce of more than 2.5 lakh, making high quality inputs such as castings and forgings and a wide variety of ancillary products. Intensive efforts are being made to boost further development of this industry |
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Textile and ready-made garments |
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Tamil Nadu has etched a name for itself in the manufacture of cotton textile and its leading position in this area is well known not only in India but the world over. The state contributes to more than 22% of the country's exports of cotton yarn and fabrics. The exports of cotton textile in 1999-2000 was US $ 4.0 billion and it had reached US $ 5.0 billion by the end of 2001-2002 AD. USA, UK, France and Germany are among the principal buyers of cotton textile from Tamil Nadu. Approximately 22% of India's exports of ready-made garments originates from Tamil Nadu. In actual terms it translates to around US $ 1.5-2.0 billion of garments being exported from the state, the two main centres being Chennai (Madras) and Tirupur. In fact, Tirupur has emerged strongly as a major industrial township. As a consequence, several important spin-off industries have emerged in the neighbouring regions - the textile machinery industry is one such off-shoot |
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While Tamil Nadu continues to maintain a commanding position in this industry, many international corporates, are looking towards the state as a global sourcing point for readymade garments with an eye on the comparatively low production costs and high quality of output offered |
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Leather-based industries |
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Ideal climatic conditions for the growth of fruits and vegetables has given rise to a vibrant Agro-based food industry in the state. The Madurai-Dingidul belt in Tamil Nadu is endowed with favourable climatic conditions ideal for the cultivation of a variety of fruits and vegetables. SIPCOT has promoted an Agro park at Nilakottai, Dindugul. The floriculture industry is also poised for a quantum leap in the next few years with the area around Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, and the Nilgiris being earmarked as places ideally suited for the cultivation of flowers like Rose and Chrysanthemum - of these Coimbatore has been identified as an intensive floriculture zone. Realising the tremendous potential in the state, a number of joint ventures involving Dutch companies are, being set up in the area - some involving major corporates. Govt. of Tamil Nadu has introduced innovative policies like Contract farming policy and Bio-technology policy. TIDCO is developing a floriculture park: TANFLORA at Hosur and 6 BIO-valleys including a Genomics centre and a Bio-incubator park in collaboration with cornell University,USA |
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Chemical and Petro-chemical industry |
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The chemical industry has grown at a tremendous pace world-wide and in India as well. The state of Tamil Nadu traditionally has a strong base in the chemical industry. Manali, in the outskirts of Chennai (Madras) has emerged as a major petro-chemical complex. The mother refinery in the complex, Chennai (Madras) Refinery Ltd., has given rise to several petro-based units using a refinery feed-stock for the manufacture of a large number of petro-chemicals ranging from fertilizer to polyols, nylon chips and polybutanes. Major chemicals and fertilizer plants have also been established at Cuddalore and Tuticorin. Major projects in the pipeline are: LNG terminal at Ennore, Nagarjuna refineries at Cuddalore, SPIC (PTA/PFY), etc. TIDCO is currently in the process of setting up a major petrochem park in an area of about 7,000 acres at Ennore, north of Chennai. TIDCO has also proposed to promote a Naphtha Cracker in this park; besides, currently implementing a LNG handling terminal at Ennore Satellite Port. Based on LNG terminal, a number of down-stream petro-chemical projects have been planned. Apart from the upcoming refinery at Cuddalore, two new refineries are proposed to be set up at Nagapattinam, and Ennore. Petrochemical industry in Tamil Nadu is in the thresholds of a rapid expansion |
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Electronics - A new and Upcoming Industry |
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Electronics is an industry which is getting priority attention in recent years with a turnover of US $250 million. Apart from computers and associated hardware, there has been a boom in consumer electronics giving rise to a wide range of consumer products. |
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Software development is currently a US $ 670 million industry in Tamil Nadu with several foreign companies entering into collaboration and joint ventures. Today, Indian software professionals are considered among the world's best. Chennai is fast emerging as the second Silicon Valley. Chennai has the largest number of Software professionals in India-currently about 32,000 employed in 767 IT companies. Chennai has several highly skilled professionals as computer science & software development have been introduced as a part of the curriculum in almost every technical educational institution in Tamil Nadu. Chennai has the largest mainframe computing capacity besides being the center for development of advanced multimedia applications & communications software. A number of major companies like Cognizant technologies, TCS, Pentafour, Ramco, Infosys, Wipro, Masscon, Alcatel, inautix, Singapore Airlines, Citibank,etc. have software development facilities at Chennai. Recently, World bank has decided to set up its back-office operations in Chennai |
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To give an impetus to this industry, the Govt. of Tamil Nadu had recently announced an attractive Information Technology Policy wherein attractive incentives and infrastructure support were offered by Govt. to investors. TIDCO & ELCOT of Govt. of Tamil Nadu have promoted TIDEL Park-the state-of-art facility with a built up area of 12.8 million sq.feet. This Park achieved 100% occupancy within 4 months of its commissioning. MNCs like Computer Associates, Ford, EDS, etc., have taken space in this. Enthused by the success of TIDEL I, the state government is embarking on TIDEL II. Apart from this, currently the Govt of Tamil Nadu is in the process of setting up Information Technology Parks with state-of-the art facilities at Coimbatore, Trichy, Madurai,etc. To improve communication, state govt. is part funding earth stations at Trichy, Madurai and Thirunelveli. Chennai is the landing station for 2 submarine cables from singpore and the bandwidth available there is 10.6 tbps |
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Inorder to savour the natural beauty of South India, we have designed the following tour packages for the discerning travellers |
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