EuroWire March 2021

Focus On Asia

Major Mumbai recruitment drive Stainless steel long products specialist Viraj Profiles Ltd is looking to recruit close to 1,200 ITI, Diploma and B. Tech graduates in 2021, to deploy them across its various plants located near Mumbai, India.

hard working and committed as any other graduate engineer, but due to lack of opportunities they are somewhere left out.” The company has maintained its hiring during the pandemic, using virtual as well as offline methods. The hiring process is a mix of remote and on-site visits. Shortlisted candidates go through an internally developed induction programme over three weeks, during which they are exposed to the entire manufacturing process and various units under each product vertical. After the successful completion of the induction process, they are posted to different plant units. Viraj Profiles exports its stainless steel products to more than 1,300 customers in 93 countries. With a melting capacity of 528,000 tons per year, the company produces more than 50,000 SKUs in various grades, shapes and sizes. Viraj Profiles Ltd www.viraj.com

Neeraj Kochhar, chairman and managing director of Viraj Profiles, said, “The company, through its ongoing campus recruitment process, has already made around 200 offers in the recent hiring season at various ITI institutes of the country, and plans to hire more. “The global pandemic has affected the career of so many young working professionals, and the worst affected have been from the rural areas of our country. “Viraj is committed to bridge that gap by offering them equal access to the career opportunities. Our recruitment team is visiting various ITI training institutes across the country including as far as Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, etc.” The company’s chief human resource officer, Priya Ranjan, commented, “Viraj not only offers the candidates continuous learning opportunities and a growth path but also gives them immense satisfaction to work on projects that are of global importance. ABZ, a wire and cable machine making supplier in China, focuses on manufacturing slip type/no-slip type RBD, rigid frame stranding machines with separated motors, high speed tubular stranding machines, drum twisters and planetary type stranding machines. Last year, the company decided to also cover the small strand market (0.16 to 7mm 2 ), by making a new product: a high-level double twister bunching machine, designed in cooperation with a European engineering team. The new machine, for 630mm flange bobbins, is available in two versions for strand pitch: mechanical by gear couple or with capstan electronic control. Features include a maximum kinematic speed of 3,500 rpm, assembly following high quality standards, and top-level New double twist bunching machine

▲ ▲ Neeraj Kochhar, Viraj chairman and managing director

“In 2021, we are planning to hire 1,200 more engineers and the process ... has already been initiated. Through this recruitment drive, we also intend to fulfil our social responsibility by ensuring that no right talent is left out because of lack of opportunities. Despite pandemic-related challenges, the company kept its commitment and completed its hiring as well as induction process for all freshly hired engineers.” Mr Kochhar added, “Every year, the company recruits around 1,000+ engi- neers, 80 per cent of which belong to premier institutes, but this year we have decided to extend our support and focus on Tier 2 towns as the young engineers passing out of these colleges are equally

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