Station Story

Stations

Coimbatore A.K.A. Kovai

Kovai enjoys the reputation of being the original entrepreneurial city built on the pillars of inventiveness and enterprise. Being the oldest manufacturing hub of the state, it has today a diverse base covering precision engineering tools, auto components, engineering goods, industrial equipment, textile machinery etc.

Given its geo-central location within the Mysore-Bangalore-Chennai-Trichy-Kochi corridor, Coimbatore has to be India’s least tapped location, when it comes to promoting innovative startups and entrepreneurship in the industrial technology space.
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Coimbatore opens the doors to the larger Western Tamil Nadu region with industrial capacity in textiles, dairy, agri, food processing, FMCG etc. - an ideal platform for startups to prove innovative solutions in these manufacturing verticals lagging behind in technology adoption. Once they find a foot hold here, these new age entrepreneurs can scale to other parts of India and expand globally too.

Unleashing Kovai 2.0, by force multiplying its native entrepreneurial spirit with the power of enhanced talent and innovative technologies aimed at driving industrial transformation.

Centres of Excellence (CoE)

Built-in 20,000 sq.ft, the Kovai station offers a full-suite hardware product development lab with concurrent capacity for up to 15 hardware product innovations. With in-house Tech support at practitioner and expert levels from full-time employees and on-demand specialists, innovators accelerate their hardware prototypes into factory-ready designs, going through a managed process of product development.

From connected devices, intelligent machines, autonomous vehicles to industrial sensors, this MIT accredited Fab Lab has emerged as a one-stop-shop for building innovative industrial-grade hardware solutions. In addition to nurturing startups bringing Digital, AI and Robotics solutions to the manufacturing sector, this station will bring stronger focus to the FutureCities, Precision Agriculture and Assistive Devices sectors.