Press Release Summary = A seven member delegation of Tools, Dies and Molds Centre,
Karachi has left for Singapore on the first leg of its visit to four nations of
South East Asia.
Press Release Body =
TUSDEC
Technology Up-Gradation and Skill Development Company
State Cement Corporation Building, Kot Lakhpat, Township, Lahore.
Phone : 0092-42-5142145-47 ( ext. 105)
Press Release
TDM Centre delegation leaves for Singapore
LAHORE (Pakistan): A seven- member delegation led by Chairman executive committee,
Tools, Dies and Molds Centre (TDM), Karachi, Munir K. Bana has left for Singapore
on the first leg of its visit to South East Asia.
The team comprising country’s leading technopreneurs will visit TDM centers in
Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Korea in a bid to have first hand knowledge about
the state of the art technologies in the field of tooling and dies and molds making.
Chairman Technology Upgradation and Skill Development Company (TUSDEC), Almas Hyder
will also accompany the delegation during its visit to Singapore and Malaysia.“We want to benefit from the South East Asian experience while establishing
country’s first TDM project in Karachi,” Munir Bana said before departing for
Singapore, according to a press release issued by TUSDEC.
He said that the delegation would use this opportunity to meet South East Asian
consultants in this vital field of engineering sector to seek their input for the
development of a strategy to promote tools, dies and mold sector in Pakistan.
Talking about Rs 450 million TDM centre, Karachi project, Bana said that the TDM
centre would provide training and consultancy services to Pakistan’s engineering
sector.“In the long term, it will provide manufacturing services to the engineering
industry,” he said.
Bana said that the centre would disseminate hands on training to the employees of
the engineering firms besides launching full-fledged technical courses for the fresh
engineering graduates.
To begin with, he said, TDM centre Karachi would launch classes in the fields of
Computer-aided Designing (CAD), Computer-aided Manufacturing (CAM) and Computer
aided Engineering (CAE).
TDM centre project being set up by TUSDEC in a period of 10 months, would provide
support to country’s dies and mold sector in carrying out rapid prototyping through
the latest technologies like stereolithograpy, selective LASER Sintering and Rapid
Tooling along with support for CAD/CAM and CNC machining.
Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) has provided a piece of land
over an area of 2 acres in Korangi, Karachi for the project.
The expected beneficiaries of TDM centre are-telecom, automobiles, medical
devices, home appliances, aviation and dies and molds manufacturing sectors.
Head Media and Public Relations
TUSDEC
Web Site = http://www.tusdec.org.pk
Contact Details = Muhammad Luqman, Manager Media and Public Relations, TUSDEC, State
Cement Corporation Building, Kot Lakhpat, Township, Lahore (Pakistan). Phone:
0092-42-5142145-7. muhammad.luqman@tusdec.org.pk
2022
