Last stop Dubai
The Burj Dubai, 119 stories so far. Soon to be the worlds tallest building.
Dubai is a truly unusual place. There must be a hundred high-rise buildings under construction. The airport is first class and looks brand new (they are building a new one about ten time larger!).
Our operation in Dubai where we are doing final commissioning and customer inspections for our Indian customers.
What a trip! I am really glad to be home.
Yesterday we met with the Director of our largest customer to discuss the delivery and support for their $60+ Million order. Sorry no photos, just not appropriate.
Today we are meeting with our joint venture manufacturing partner here in New Delhi. Nothing like china, you notice several things right away. In China almost the entire workforce were young girl, in India almost entirely young men. In China machines made by the company (frequently copies of US or European machines), in India all purchased machines from the US or Europe.
Cable Manufacturing
Cable extuder
We did see several women out of a staff of over 200.
Laying out cable for measurements.
Arrived in New Delhi, India around 2 AM Sunday morning. Believe it or not the airport was absolutely packed. Checked in to hotel around 3AM very little security nothing unusual at all. When I got up for breakfast everything had changed. Helos on the roof, the Army and security everywhere. It seams the Southeast Asia summit is being hosted right here and one of the member country
