L&T and Komatsu Launch Global Hydraulic Excavator at Excon 2019

Komatsu India Pvt Ltd and Larsen & Toubro have put together an impressive show at Excon 2019, South Asia’s largest construction equipment exhibition, showcasing technological strengths and service capabilities.

Komatsu, Scania and L&T have put up a display of 19 machines at Excon 2019 that opened on 10th December. The star of the show is Komatsu PC210-10MO Hydraulic Excavator, the next generation machine, which has been launched at Excon today.

The machine was jointly launched by Mr. Arvind K. Garg, Executive Vice-President, Construction & Mining Machinery, L&T, and Mr. M. Kamizono, Managing Director, KIPL, amidst a large gathering of customers, financiers and dealers who came to witness the launch. 

Komatsu PC210-10MO is expected to revolutionize the 20-ton class excavator segment. This truly efficient and eco-friendly machine is 20 per cent more productive and is 20 per cent more fuel efficient than its predecessor, PC210-8M0.

The new model is the result of Komatsu’s cutting-edge technology and has been specially developed to suit Indian conditions. It promises to give a new dimension to the industry, which has been looking for a highly productive machine to scale new peaks in performance.

Coinciding with the occasion, L&T launched Komatsu G2-LI, a multipurpose grease designed for all components covering majority of the Komatsu range of construction equipment. It is an extreme pressure lithium grease with excellent mechanical stability, which means that this grease maintains its consistency for long hours.

Apart from these, NTG (next truck generation) Scania G440 XT Heavy Tipper is on display in the L&T Pavilion at Excon 2019. With its unique modular system, Scania G440 will deliver higher productivity as well as customized transport solutions. The tipper is integrated with upgraded powertrain resulting in higher load carrying capacity, fuel efficiency, higher uptime, better fuel economy and operator comfort.

Other Komatsu machines on display in the L&T Pavilion include a wide range of hydraulic excavators -- PC71, PC130, PC300-8, PC350-8 and PC450 that are popular in the construction industry and manufactured by Komatsu India Pvt Ltd at its state-of-the-art facility in Oragadam, Chennai.

D85 Crawler Dozer and GD535 Motor Grader, imported from Komatsu Ltd, are also in the bouquet of offerings.

These machines are for multiple applications such as earthwork, land development, irrigation, blue metal quarry and have already set new benchmarks across the industry.

All Komatsu machines are digitalized and equipped with Machine Tracking systems such as KOMTRAX, which enable the users monitor the equipment health and bring in efficiency.

As part of the Make in India, L&T Construction Equipment Ltd offers a wide range of road machinery ~ L&T 9020sx Wheel Loader, L&T 1190 / L&T 990HF/ L&T 491 Vibratory Compactors, L&T 2490 Pneumatic Tyred Roller, Hydraulic Paver and Skid Steer Loader. These equipment incorporate world-class features and are fitted with L&T DigiEye for online tracking.

Background:

Larsen & Toubro is an Indian multinational engaged in technology, engineering, construction, manufacturing and financial services with over USD 21 billion in revenue. It operates in over 30 countries worldwide. A strong, customer–focused approach and the constant quest for top-class quality have enabled L&T to attain and sustain leadership in its major lines of business for eight decades.

Sister Bini Mol T Lead Nursing Supervisor – Malathi Manipal Hospitals Awarded Florence Nightingale Award 2019

Ms. Bini Mol T, Lead Nursing Supervisor at Malathi Manipal Hospital was awarded the prestigious Florence Nightingale Award 2019 by the Honourable Chief Minister of Karnataka Shri. B. S. Yediyurappa today.

The Florence Nightingale Medal is the highest international distinction that can be awarded to a nurse. It recognizes exceptional courage and devotion towards caring for victims of a natural disaster, exemplary services, creative and pioneering spirit in the areas of public health or nursing education.

Sharing her happiness on receiving the prestigious Florence Nightingale Award, Sister Bini Mol T Lead Nursing Supervisor, Malathi Manipal Hospitals said, “Iam extremely happy and privileged to receive the prestigious Florence Nightingale award and honoured  for the recognition. I take this opportunity to thank Manipal Hospitals for keeping faith in my work and provided me the opportunity to be part of Manipal family. My heart felt gratitude to the Florence Nightingale committee for being instrumental in recognizing the nurses for their hard work. Without them, it would not have been possible to achieve such a prestigious award. This award inspires me to contribute much more to society.”

Sister Bini Mol T joined Manipal Hospitals in the year 2008 and has been associated with the Hospital for 11 years. She initially joined in the OPD and Emergency department but later moved the ladder as the lead nurse due to her relentless and selfless service.  She also played a crucial role  in evacuating the patients during a fire incident at Carlton Towers, Old Airport Road in the year 2010 and at Malathi Manipal Hospitals in the year 2017.

Sister Bini is the coordinator for all the health camps for old age homes and orphanage. She was also working closely on the Rubella and measles vaccination drive by Government of Karnataka and vaccinated close to 800 children.

Trend Micro Invests in Cloud Security Offerings: Steve Quane

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions provides optimized protection for workloads running on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMware and Docker, allowing customers to automate deployment for streamlined compliance and seamlessly secure DevOps.

In this regard, Trend Micro has received the highest score in the current offering and strategy categories, and among the second highest scores in the market presence category, in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Workload Security, Q4 2019. Trend Micro believes that this recognition underscores the leadership of its cloud offerings and strategy as the peak of the cloud security market.

“We’ve invested significantly in our cloud security offerings, and I view this report as validation of our vision, continued innovation, and strong execution,” said Steve Quane, executive vice president of network defense and hybrid cloud security at Trend Micro. “We were one of the first security vendors to predict the growing appetite for cloud workload security solutions, and I think we have hit the bullseye on combining technology, partnerships and seamless integration of acquisitions over time.”

In addition to its comprehensiveness, Forrester recognized Trend Micro’s cloud security offering in multiple areas including:

“The solution is ideal for large firms with broad Cloud Workload Security (CWS) needs across workloads, hypervisors and containers.”
“The OS level, agent-based protections are very strong and include malware and memory protection, file integrity monitoring, host-based firewall, intrusion detection/intrusion prevention, log inspection and application binary control,” the report noted.
“Role-based access control (RBAC) is very flexible for administrators. Container runtime and pre-runtime checks are comprehensive, and the solution exposes a broad API for Deep Security policy control.”
Forrester rigorously evaluated 13 competitive security vendors across 30 criterion and in three distinct areas: current offering, strategy and market presence.

Trend Micro believes that this report complements another recently published recognition by another top analyst firm. The company was named the #1 vendor in Software-Defined Compute (SDC) workload protection by IDC in their new independent report: Worldwide Software Defined Compute Workload Security Market Shares, 2018 (DOC #US45638919, NOVEMBER 2019). This report revealed Trend Micro achieved a market share lead of 35.5%, almost triple its nearest competitor in 2018.

Lighting Major Signify Achieves Carbon Neutral Operations in India

Signify, the world leader in lighting, has achieved carbon neutrality in India, which is a part of its growth markets. The achievement is part of a total of five more markets – specifically ASEAN, Far East, India, Indonesia and Pacific – achieving carbon neutrality, boosting Signify’s number of markets with carbon-neutral operations to 15 out of a total of 19. This brings Signify a big step closer towards achieving 100% carbon-neutral operations in 2020, one of the goals of its “Brighter Lives, Better World” sustainability program.

By focusing on energy efficiency, renewable energy consumption and office space optimization, the five markets have reduced their overall carbon emissions by 19% in 2019. This includes a reduction of 33% from non-industrial sites, 17% from industrial sites, 32% from business travel and 18% from logistics. Signify offsets its remaining emissions through contributions to projects that have a positive environmental and social impact, including small- to medium-sized wind farms in India and a hydro plant in Vietnam that operates without using a dam.

“I’m extremely proud of the relentless commitment of all our employees that resulted in this great milestone, showing that carbon neutrality is possible and that it is possible today,” said Sumit Padmakar Joshi, Market Leader – India at Signify. “We hope that our achievements inspire other companies around us and we call upon them to join initiatives that will result in global carbon neutrality by 2050.”

‘Brighter Lives, Better World’

Signify introduced its “Brighter Lives, Better World” sustainability program in 2016, setting ambitious sustainability goals for 2020, consisting of two pillars:

1. Sustainable revenues:

80% of revenues will come from sustainable products, systems and services by 2020
More than 2 billion LED lamps and luminaires delivered by 2020

2. Sustainable operations:

100% carbon neutral for operations
100% use of renewable electricity
Zero waste to landfill in manufacturing
Strive for a safe and healthy workplace with a total recordable case rate of less than 0.35
Ensuring a sustainable supply chain with a minimum supplier performance rate of 90%

As part of the company’s leadership in energy efficiency measures Signify is committed to the World Green Building Council’s initiative to have all of its buildings be carbon neutral by 2030. In addition, Signify supports The Climate Group’s EV100 initiative to operate a 100% electric and hybrid lease fleet by 2030 and its RE100 initiative to scale up the use of renewable electricity. To further support these initiatives, during Climate Week New York 2019, Signify called on companies and countries to join the Three Percent Club, so carbon neutrality can be achieved by 2050.

Signify was named Industry Leader in the Electrical Components and Equipment category of the 2019 Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), receiving recognition for all its sustainability improvements for the third consecutive year.

NuTy Now Offers Nutritious, Tasty, Hygienic HomeStyle Foods for Bangaloreans at Affordable Prices

Tulita Ahara Private Limited (Sanskrit for Balanced-Diet), the company behind India’s first Food-as-a-Service brand, NuTy, offers authentic HomeStyle ready-meals through its omni-channel outlets across the city. Today, the company announced their target full coverage of Bangalore with 500 omni retail outlets by March 2020. Its brand, NuTy (abbreviated from ‘Nutritious and Tasty’) currently has presence in 163 outlets in Bangalore and has served over 225,000 meals since its expansion few months ago.

NuTy creates micro food-entrepreneurs and tech-enables them to serve customers through their proprietary WhatsApp based ecommerce platform and food-delivery partners like Swiggy, Zomato and UberEats. NuTy has developed and tested about 100 regional recipe based heat-and-eat meals that are kept fresh through proprietary HPP chilling technology that helps long-term preservation of the food without using artificial ingredients, while retaining its nutrition and taste.

Announcing the quick climb in numbers for NuTy outlets, Ray Nathan co-founder of NuTy, excitedly says, "NuTy’s authentic, affordable, nutritious, tasty, hygienic food with a long shelf-life helps satiate appetite, reduce waste and create livelihoods all the while meeting the basic needs of a common person. NuTy blends the ‘art of food’ creation with latest in food science to curate authentic ready-meals that can be delivered through next-gen technology. This we believe is the future of affordable and nutritious food."

Naveen Chander, co-founder, NuTy also added "Our company was formed with a vision to provide nutritious and tasty meals for everyone, one that is a balanced-diet and yet at an affordable rate. Such a combination has never been thought possible before. Our model is possible because we source all the raw material and ingredients directly from the source and which turn into curated authentic regional meals. An essential part of the NuTy model is that of creating food micro-entrepreneurs who will be the delivery points to the consumers of NuTy meals. Apart from meals, NuTY is a livelihood platform and we hope to create 200,000 food micro-entrepreneurs by 2023.”

NuTy also has larger volume packs for HoReCa (Hotels, Restaurants and Cafes) wherein a small to mid-sized food outlet can increase its food offerings by reducing their overheads.

About NuTy:

NuTy is India’s first Food-as-a-service brand offering HomeStyle ready-meals based on regional recipes. Founded by Ray Nathan and Naveen Chander, NuTy is the one of the first food brands in Asia to use HPP technology in fresh curries resulting in superior taste, quality and nutrition at the same time. NuTy Ready-Meals are available as take-away at hundreds of retail stores and on food-delivery platforms like Swiggy, Zomato and UberEats.

LTI Wins Multiyear Engagement with Hoist Finance AB for the Swedish Financial Services Company

Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd., a global technology consulting and digital solutions company has won a multiyear engagement with Swedish financial services company, Hoist Finance AB to manage its IT Operations. With presence in 11 European countries, Hoist Finance is headquartered in Sweden and is listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm exchange.

LTI will leverage its operate to transform approach to enhance stability, security and efficiency of Hoist Finance’s IT environment.

Klaus-Anders Nysteen, CEO, Hoist Finance, said “To execute on our strategy and become the digital leader in our industry, requires a multitude of thought leadership and professionalism as well as extensive technological experience and capabilities. With a strong delivery record and focus on increased stability, security and automation, LTI is the perfect fit for us to enhance the user experience for both our customers and employees and to accelerate our digital developments. We are looking forward to continuing on our digital journey through our multiyear partnership with LTI.”

Sudhir Chaturvedi, President & Executive Board Member, LTI, said “To be the breakaway leader in their domain, banking and financial services enterprises need to offer superior customer experience, and operate with extreme efficiency. We look forward to partnering with Hoist Finance to fulfill these objectives with our robust offerings that enable companies to use superior operations as a lever of transformation.”

LTI has a strong presence in the Nordic region and partners with leading companies across industries. Company has recently setup a proximity center in Poland to support clients in the region.

ACT Fibernet Ties Up with EVAM to Launch Chennai’s First Dedicated Comedy Club - South of Comedy (SOCO)

ACT Fibernet, India’s largest fiber-focused wired broadband ISP (Internet Service Provider), today announced its partnership with EVAM to launch Chennai’s first dedicated comedy club – ACT Fibernet SOCO (South of Comedy) at Bamboo Bar, Savera Hotel, Chennai.

The stand-up comedy art is increasingly gaining popularity in Chennai. Having produced home-grown talents like Karthik Kumar, Arvind SA, Alexander Babu with global recognition from Indian diaspora, Chennai is transitioning into one of the preferred destinations for high-quality stand-up comedy. EVAM, Chennai’s biggest theatre and arts platform has been driving the standup comedy movement in South India for the last 9 years enabling people to discover their calling.  South of Comedy (SOCO) is a one of a kind initiative by the group aiming to provide a dedicated platform to stand-up comedians and further cultivate the comedy culture in the city.

South of Comedy (SOCO) aspires to be a one stop source for audience to catch all their favorite stars and enjoy fun curated events all seven days a week. It will also act as a stage for upcoming comedians to showcase their skills and entertain the local audience.

ACT Fibernet, through this partnership intends to promote the comedy circuit in Chennai and will provide an exclusive “ACT Fibernet SOCO” branded venue for continued entertainment and engagement. Further, as the company’s new brand promise #Advantage Entertainment, ACT Fibernet and EVAM together will host dedicated nights once in a month exclusively for ACT customers giving them a better dose of comedy.

Speaking on the partnership, Sandeep Gupta, COO, ACT Fibernet said, “Stand-up comedy is extremely becoming popular in Chennai especially among the millennials. EVAM has been driving the movement for last 9 years and we are excited to partner with them for their new venture. Together, we aim to deliver top class entertainment and generate opportunities for new talents”.

Commenting on the partnership, Sunil Vishnu K, Director, EVAM said, “ACT Fibernet is one of the most reputed broadband service providers in Chennai, and we are delighted to have them on board as our partner. ACT Fibernet will play a critical role in providing our customers world-class experiences and we hope together we will revitalise the comedy culture in the city.”