Indian Infrastructures and Capabilities
The company formally opened the new facility on September 10, 2026, at the MSME Technology Centre in the KIADB Aerospace Park in Bengaluru North.
Named the BIGGA Factory — short for Big Global Ambition — the plant will be located at the SIPCOT Industrial Park in Shoolagiri, near Hosur, one of southern India’s largest automotive manufacturing clusters.
The board of the state-owned shipbuilder approved the proposal on September 9, 2026. Under the planned transaction, Cochin Shipyard will transfer the International Ship Repair Facility, or ISRF, to the new joint venture as a going concern for not less than ₹1,800 crore.
The first batch of precision-machined aerospace components has already been produced at Sri City and shipped to Sigma’s UK operations for final verification before delivery to the customer. The company disclosed the development to the BSE and National Stock Exchange on September 10.
Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu held discussions with Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov in New Delhi on September 10, 2026, with civil aircraft manufacturing and regional connectivity emerging as key areas for deeper industrial cooperation.
The TCS Industrial Autonomy & Engineering Lab – Lights-Out Factory has been established at the company’s Sahyadri Park campus in Pune. TCS announced its launch on September 9, 2026, positioning the facility as a testing ground for manufacturers seeking to move beyond conventional factory automation towards production environments capable of monitoring, adjusting and optimising more of their operations autonomously.
The state-owned power major’s tender records show that bidding for the principal 108 MW ±5 MW Engineering, Procurement and Construction package closed on September 8, 2026, while a separate package covering site-enabling works remains open until September 21.
The policy identifies Machilipatnam as one of Andhra Pradesh’s new greenfield ports and specifically includes it among locations where shipyard development can be taken up as part of the state’s wider maritime industrial strategy.
The agreement was signed in Mumbai on September 8, 2026, during APNIC 62, the Asia-Pacific Internet community’s flagship technical conference. The event has returned to India after a gap of 14 years and has brought together network operators, Internet infrastructure specialists, policymakers and technology professionals from across the region.
The 40,000-square-foot facility includes 25,000 square feet of Class 10K and Class 1K cleanrooms and is designed to handle semiconductor validation, automated testing, reliability qualification and failure analysis after a chip has been manufactured. HCLTech formally announced the facility on September 8.
