Bicycle Industry

• Largest Cluster of Bicycle Manufacturing Industry in India with more than 90% bicycle parts manufactured in Punjab.
• 75% share in India Bicycle Production

Technological upgradation and R&D Interventions required

• Light weight & strong aluminum frame design
• Gear shifters & gears: The Indian industry has not been very successful in manufacturing efficient gear shifters and more than 90% demand is met by Japanese companies
• Disc brakes: These are also being supplied by foreign companies
• High end suspension systems
• Related tooling: Manufacturing of tools related to manufacturing & fitting of gear shifters, gears

Forging Cluster

• Around 300 Forging units operating in the State
• Annual forging of 1.50 million tons of alloy steel
• Consumption of around 300 million liters of petroleum products as furnace fuel (equivalent to 9 lakh tones of CO2 emission worth Rs. 1350 Cr)
• Usage of age old technologies with very low thermal efficiency in the range of 8-20%.
• Estimated financial loss of Rs.450 crore per annum

Technological upgradation and R&D Interventions required

• Oil Heating Pumping Filtration (HPF) Unit
• Waste Heat Recovery System (WHR)
• Automation
• Refractory & Insulation
• Energy Efficient Burners

Textile & Dyeing Industry

• Punjab has 4 Textile Parks having state-of-the-art infrastructure
• Around 260 textile & dyeing industries operational in Ludhiana

Technological upgradation and R&D Interventions required

• Technical Textiles
• R&D on indigenous development of specialty fibers
• High Technology Polymers for increased used in Agro/Medical/Sports Textile etc.
• Effluent Management
• R&D and technology for new products development
• Need for technology up-gradation
• Innovations in Machinery
• Need for labs for testing of products

Brick Industrial Cluster

• Around 2400 brick kilns producing 1440 crores of solid clay bricks annually using coal as fuel for baking of bricks
• Annual turnover of more than Rs. 8640 crores
• Annual coal consumption of brick sector is 21.6 lakh tones (47.5 lakh tones equivalent CO2 emissions) amounting to Rs. 3110 crores
• Consumption of 2.62 lakh cubic meters of top fertile soil annually

Technological upgradation and R&D Interventions required

• Setting up of common facility center for brick sector for carrying out R&D studies, clay testing laboratory, demonstration of state-of-art technology for brick manufacturing and firing.
• Facilitation w.r.t. setting up of Resource Efficient Brick manufacturing units and related REB manufacturing machinery.
• Support w.r.t. machinery for clay brick extrusion, there being no machinery manufacturer in Punjab and lack of technical support for importing the machinery.
• Pneumatic fuel feeding system for existing high draft kiln technology which can reduce fuel consumption & improve brick quality.
• Initial firing in brick kilns using Gas/LPG in place of fire wood - to reduce emissions and improve brick quality.

Steel Re-rolling Cluster

• Operating steel rerolling mills in the State with installed production capacity of around 45 lakh tones (worth Rs. 22500 crores) per annum
• Consumption of 2.70 lakh ton coal as fuel (worth Rs. 486 crores) generating 7.42 lakh ton of CO2 and 450 lakh ton SPM into the atmosphere
• Loss of around Rs. 450 crores per annum in the form of steel burning loss due to process inefficiencies.

Technological Interventions required

• Energy efficient reheating furnace
• Waste Heat Recovery system
• Automation & Control
• Refractory & Insulation
• Piping & combustion equipments
• Fuel preparation/handling/injection system
• Mill cooling system
• House keeping practices
• Electrical facilities monitoring & maintenance
• Roll pass design

Foundry Cluster

• Around 900-1000 cupola furnaces in operation for the production of cast iron castings
• Consumption of around 78750 tons of coke worth Rs. 196 crore annually and generate 700 tons of SPM and 2.3 lakh tons of CO2

Technological upgradation and R&D Interventions required

• Setting up of testing labs/R&D centers for providing solution in casting defects, introducing casting quality improvement techniques such as Product Process Search analysis (PPS) Inspection method, Design of Experiment (DOE), using a Casting simulation software etc.
• Setting up of Common facilities with high pressure molding line, modern cold box core shop, robotized fettling etc.
• Promoting adoption of greener engineering processes like sand reclamation.
• R&D for slag utilization in construction sector.

Agriculture Implements

Highest per capita agriculture implements in India

• R&D on upgrading metallurgy of wearable parts so as to compete with international companies
• Highest per capita agriculture implements in India
• A Common Facility Center (CFC) to provide access to the industry to high-end technologies like laser cutting which requires high precision.

Leather Industries

Technological Interventions required

• Low cost technology for chromeless tanning
• Chemical free dehairing operations & limited salt consumption/ preservation
• Laser cutting machinery for Leather Industry
• Computer aided design
• Bio based leather
• Effluent Management
• Biogass generation from tannery solid waste
• Use of sustainable alternative of leather viz. cork, tree bark, pineapple, leaf fibers, recycled rubber leather etc.

Sports Goods Sector

Jalandhar: One of the largest manufacturer of sports goods in India.

• Nano-based solutions for an added advantage such as high strength and stiffness, durability, reduced weight, abrasion resistance, etc. in sporting equipment
• Automation
• Value addition/Recycle of waste generated by Sports Industry
• Sports goods stitching Tools & Machinery
• Raw material: Presently the Industry is not getting good quality raw material locally like leather, PU/PVC. High quality PU/PVC is being imported from Korea and there is a need of locally manufactured PU/PVC.
• Absence of technology centres/ experts: No exclusive R&D centre or institute for the sector in the region, for material testing & reverse engineering services, etc.