Belden unveils customer experience centre in Bengaluru

Belden Inc, a$2.5 billion revenue US-based manufacturer of networking, connectivity, and cable products and solutions, on Tuesday opened a customer experience centre in Bengaluru and committed an investment of $20 million at a new plant at Pune.

The experience centre will showcase complete range of Belden’s solutions for data centres, digital buildings, enterprise infrastructure and wireless communications.

“We are looking at more customer engagement as India is going through massive infrastructure projects. We have developed partner ecosystem to expand our footprint in India,”said Belden Managing Director, Industrial & Enterprise Solutions for Asia Pacific Ashish Chand.

He said innovations from Belden helps customers in the industrial and enterprise markets. “The centre will help our clients improve efficiency, reduce costs and keep up with more complex and demanding requirements from customers,”he said.

Commenting on the development, Belden India & SAARC Sales & Marketing Director Murugesan Ram said the centre enables our engineers to understand customers challenges and requirements and help them to build and offer tailored solutions and systems on-demand.

“We invite enterprise IT Managers to interact with our experts and experience Belden solutions and products demonstrations at our collaboration centre,” said Ram.

On the manufacturing facility, Chand said it will be located at Chakan in Pune and will produce entire products in its verticals like enterprise, broadcast, industrial and network.

“It swill be the 5th plant of Belden globally and the second plant to produce entire range of product portfolio. We have acquired seven acres of land in Pune taking into account the growing demand in the Asia Pacific region,”he said.

Founded in 1902, the company is headquartered in St. Louis and has manufacturing capabilities in North and South America, Europe and Asia.

Belden brands include GarretCom and Hirschmann for industrial solution and Lumberg Automation for cable products. Its cyber security product company include Tofino Security and Tripwire.