Delcam India celebrates 10th anniversary at Technical Summit

The Summit is held each year to present the latest developments from the company to its leading customers, academicians and the technical media in the region. This year's meeting, which was sponsored by HP and DMG/Mori Seiki, and supported by Haas, was the tenth in the series and the first to be held in India. Close to 100 delegates attended from 11 countries. In the last ten years, Delcam India has grown from its initial staff of three to more than 125 employees. The company is based in new, purpose-built headquarters in Pune that cost around $1 million when it was constructed in 2006. It also operates 14 regional offices spread across the country, to support a growing customer base of over 1,200 customers. The Summit comes at a time when Delcam is on target to achieve record sales this year, having staged a strong recovery from last year's downturn. 2009 was the worst year in the CAM industry's history, with overall sales down by 15 per cent according to the latest report from US analysts CIMdata. Despite the downturn Delcam increased its expenditure in research & development and customer support so it is now reaping the rewards as the business climate improves. As might be expected, Delcam's sales in Asia are showing the fastest growth in 2010, but the company's Sales Partners in many other countries are also confident of seeing their best-ever results this year. The Summit included a presentation by Peter Beckingham, British Deputy High Commissioner in Mumbai, to Delcam's 35,000th global customer, Southern Spars, a specialist in the design and construction of carbon fibre spars and components from New Zealand.