Congratulations on successfully concluding the Haas Demo Days in Nasik recently. This follows the equally successful first HaasTec Open House of 2014. It seems you are taking customer engagement to the next level with these events?

The immensely popular HaasTec events held in Chennai, Ahmedabad, Delhi and Mumbai are large events with six or more Haas CNC machines on display cutting parts and the active presence of a number of our key technology partners for accessories, tools and software. These are conducted on the lines of the HaasTec show held every alternate year at our parent company Haas Automation Inc USA. We conduct HaasTecs in India in the major industrial hubs where we have our largest Haas Factory Outlets located.

We have a number of customers located in smaller industrial cities and towns such as Nasik, Aurangabad, Kolhapur, Ludhiana, and Jamshedpur etc. who have expressed interest in attending similar HaasTec events in their local cities. We use the Haas Demo Day format conducting smaller, focused Open Houses in these cities and towns. The principle remains the same: engage with our customers closely, mutually exchange ideas and technology and actively showcase our CNC machines cutting live demos in remote locations even if we do not have Haas Factory Outlets there. During the Demo Days which are usually two or three day events we have at least two of our latest Haas CNC machine models on display. In Nasik we showcased our new DS-30Y Dual Spindle CNC Turning Center with Y axis and our popular VF-3 Vertical Machining Center. We also had seminars from industry leading experts throughout the three days.