Mumbai: Electronic product development firm Altium will open up its sales and marketing offices in India by January 2009 and is looking for Indian partners to expand its business, a top official said today.

"Altium, which supplies crucial electronic products to aerospace, defence and other industries around the globe, will open its sales and marketing offices in Mumbai, Bangalore or New Delhi within two months," Vice-president, Worldwide operations, Andre Pravaz told PTI here.

"We are also talking to Indian partners to find how to increase the market and about the investments," he said.

"In the next two to three years we are planning to have multiple fold growth both in India and China," he said adding that Altium has opened three offices in China.

The company is also looking forward to supply to the Indian nuclear industry once the nuclear deal gets operationalised. "About nuclear industry, we do not want to talk now but we have plans," Pravaz said.

"Offices in China are doing well and we expect similar growth in India as electronic innovative design products and embedded software are in great demand," he said.

"Our company will also be adopting academic strategy to educate the engineers to make optimum use of the innovative electronic technologies," he said.

The Protel software famous Australian company, earlier this week, announced the latest version of unified electronics design solution which has over 100 new features that further unify the different design processes.
Source : PTI