UNIDO-PMU, under UNIDO-GEF-BEE Project, has conducted a ‘Project Knowledge-Sharing Workshop’ to share the learnings of the project with the cluster and also facilitated the successful units (102) with an award of certificates. The Workshop was chaired by UNIDO Country Head Shri. Rene Van Berkel besides participation by the Officials of UNIDO, BEE, DESL and COINDIA.

The second phase - scaling up of project activities has been successfully completed in the Coimbatore Foundry Cluster and COINDIA has been recognized as one of the most successful projects under this scheme.

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), in collaboration with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) and COINDIA have executed a Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded National project “Promoting Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Selected MSME Clusters in India” in Coimbatore region.

Mr. K.V. Karthik, Managing Partner of M/s. Deccan Industries was elected as President and Mr. A. Sivashanmughakumar, Managing Partner M/s. Sri Jayaram Foundry and Mr. V. Krishnakumar, VP-Marketing of M/s. Aquasub Engineering as Vice Presidents of COINDIA for the year 2022-23.

COINDIA’s 18th Annual General Meeting held on 22nd August 2022 at the Office of the Association