Electronics manufacturing and telecom products marketing company Optiemus Infracom Ltd on Tuesday (January 14) said its wholly-owned subsidiary Optiemus Unmanned Systems Private Ltd has announced a strategic partnership with Taiwan-based KunWay Technology to manufacture drones in India.
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As part of this collaboration, Optiemus Unmanned Systems will localise, manufacture, and sell a range of KunWay’s drone products tailored for the Indian market. The partnership is also open to exploring Kunway’s extended product portfolio on a case-to-case basis.
The partnership reflects the commitment for both the companies to contribute towards the ‘Make in India’ vision and Optiemus Unmanned Systems will leverage its local expertise and infrastructure to manufacture KunWay’s drone products from its state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Noida, India.
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KunWay is based out of the Chiayi AI Drone Center in Taiwan. The company is devoted to drone products, AI system design and development to provide appropriate solutions for drone applications and has customers in the US and Japan.
The company has continued to develop and combine AI technology to achieve precise operations, optimising products according to the evolving needs of its global customers.
Ashok Gupta, Executive Chairman, Optiemus Infracom, said, “In line with keeping abreast with these changing times, we are looking to expand our portfolio of products in the Indian market. Our partnership with KunWay is in line with this goal and we aim to launch their products in the Indian market and localize as per the need of defence and homeland security and bring India on a global stage of drone manufacturing.”
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David, Chung Yi, Liu, President and CEO, KunWay Technology, said, “India is a very exciting and dynamic market for us and we are elated to contribute to the India growth story and Make in India vision with the support of Optiemus. The rate of adoption of technology across industries has never been faster and India, given its growing competency, will be one of our focus markets.”
Shares of Optiemus Infracom Ltd ended at ₹695.80, up by ₹33.10, or 4.99%, on the BSE.
(Edited by : Shoma Bhattacharjee)
