Noida/Sunnyvale, CA– November 30^th, 2012 – HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL), a leading global IT services provider today announced that it has been selected by The Manitowoc Company, Inc., (NYSE: MTW) a leading multi-industry, capital goods manufacturer,  as its global engineering partner for the crane operations spanning the Americas, EMEA, and Asia/Pacific regions. Manitowoc and HCL have also set up a global engineering center in Pune, India to support Manitowoc’s design centers and accelerate its new product development initiatives in emerging regions such as India, China, and Brazil.
 
Through this design center, HCL offers a complete spectrum of engineering services to Manitowoc Cranes to produce blueprints for new and innovative crane models. HCL also anticipates, simulates, and provides novel solutions in design implementation in a cost effective and timely manner. The design center also extends engineering design services support to Manitowoc’s key engineering hubs and innovation centers in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Germany, France, and Italy. The service offerings are primarily focused around product design, va ve – value analysis value engineering , structural engineering, embedded software development, and hardware engineering.
 
“Partnering with HCL enables us to further strengthen the core tenets of our strategy - to provide superior products and capitalize on global growth opportunities,” said Jens Ennen, Senior Vice President Global Engineering & Innovation, Manitowoc Cranes. “We are confident that our partnership with HCL will accelerate our business imperatives in the emerging markets.”
“HCL’s alignment to the key business imperatives of Manitowoc and synergies between our business objectives proved to be the key differentiators during our partner evaluation process,” said Dr. Suresh Natarajan, Director of Global Engineering Services, Manitowoc Cranes. “A combination of decades of experience in engineering, out-of-the-box thinking, and a solid foundation of talent, processes, systems, frameworks, and tools are just few of the reasons why we chose to partner with HCL for our project,” he added.
“We are pleased to partner with Manitowoc Cranes on their advent to capture the potential manufacturing opportunities in the growing economies,” said GH Rao, President, Engineering and R&D services, HCL Technologies. “This partnership stands testimony to HCL’s engineering prowess and innovation culture which drives global corporations to engage with us.”
Recognized by industry analysts and others for its leadership in the engineering services market, HCL has emerged as a leading technology services partner in the US and Europe. HCL has partnered with over 200 customers working on cutting edge technologies, world class products and creating associated solution delivery ecosystems to elevate market leadership. For more information, please click on the link: /engineering-services/
 
About HCL Technologies
 
HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL focuses on ‘transformational outsourcing’, underlined by innovation and value creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 31 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare. HCL takes pride in its philosophy of ‘Employees First, Customers Second’ which empowers our 85,335 transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$ 4.3 billion ( 22,471 crores), as on 30th September 2012 (on LTM basis). For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com
 
About HCL
HCL is a $6.2 billion leading global technology and IT enterprise comprising two companies listed in India – HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT garage start-ups. A pioneer of modern computing, HCL is a global transformational enterprise today. Its range of offerings includes product engineering, custom & package applications, BPO, IT infrastructure services, IT hardware, systems integration, and distribution of information and communications technology (ICT) products across a wide range of focused industry verticals. The HCL team consists of over 90,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who operate from 31 countries including over 500 points of presence in India. HCL has partnerships with several leading global 1000 firms, including leading IT and technology firms.
 
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For details, contact
Avena Suri
HCL Technologies
avena.suri@hcl.com
P: 949-310-7209
 
Maria Brown 
Matter Communications
Phone Number-   +1-978-499-9250  ext. 212
Email- mbrown@matternow.com