New Delhi officially welcomes iglidur

Driver, Sasha, shares his thoughts of the day from the iglidur press conference in New Delhi:

It was a big day for iglidur®. Our Indian colleagues presented “iglidur® on tour” to the media and thus have made an impressive start to the journey in India. Around 30 journalists were expected however in the end, 52 turned up! What a start!

Our sales manager, Patrick Carl, initially stated the idea behind “iglidur® on tour” and introduced igus® and our bearing production line. Mr. Antony P Kurian, COO of igus® India, subsequently gave some general information about the work they are doing. Paul Deepack and Santosh Jakob k followed and guided the journalists in the direction of the main focus of the day.

The big reveal!

Music started to play, fog started to fill the scene where a screen opened slowly and our car entered the stage, the star of the day. Journalists flocked to the stage out of their seat all without a doubt competing to get that winning shot of the iglidur car.

As the initial buzz started to simmer we presented the tour the car is going to drive as well as me as a driver. Following this, the charity organization “make a difference” got to know that we donate 100 rupee (85=1 euro) for each kilometer/mile we are going to drive (about 4000km/2500miles). “Make a difference” is a voluntary network that is empowering children living in street shelters and orphanages.

Finally, this all got topped off with a lively discussion. It was a short but very intensive and successful press conference. Next stop is the Auto expo in New Delhi before we afterwards are going to start out to discover incredible India.