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Arvind Mehta Technology and Entrepreneurship Centre

(AIPMA’s AMTEC)

IPMA’s Arvind Mehta Technology and Entrepreneurship
ACentre (AMTEC) was launched on 16th Feb 2021 in
Mumbai with the objective to help MSME’s in plastics and
its application industry in reducing overall time to design,
develop and rapid roll out of products thereby increase
speed to global market and compete with China in global
market.
The Centre was inaugurated in presence of dignitaries
from the industry, academia and government. The launch
ceremony was presided by Prof. (Dr.) S.K Nayak, Former
Director General, CIPET and currently Vice Chancellor
of Ravenshaw University, Odisha. The launch event was
witnessed by more than 1000 people both in-person and
virtually. Vision behind this novel initiative of AIPMA is to
promote high quality knowledge and industrial services for
rapid growth of the plastics and its application industry.
from Micro to small, small to medium and medium to large
enterprises. The Centre would consist of state-of-the-art
Product Innovation & Application Centre consisting of high
quality equipment's, leading national and international
knowledge partners.
Ultimate goal is to provide training and industry services
for faster growth of MSME's thereby bringing Indian Plastic
Industry at par with China. Initiative of the Centre of
Excellence would lead to increased profitability and cash
flow for MSME’s through productivity enhancement and
better quality. The Centre would provide technology &
management services, webinars, digital workshops and
certificate courses for student, trainees and industry
workers. Five major verticals are being considered for the
Centre of Excellence in the areas of Reverse Engineering
& metrology, Software design application, 3D printing,
Plastics packaging and Management courses.
The Centre of Excellence is being set up as a triangulation
of AIPMA, MSME's and international technology providers AIPMA’s AMTEC is in process of signing with International
to bring MSME's at par with global standards rapidly. The knowledge partners such as Cal Zeiss, Autodesk, Stratasys,
Centre of Excellence would help the industry to graduate 3D Systems. Various other knowledge partners are being
roped in to help MSME’s in the plastics industry.

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