Cluster Profile
1 Name Of Cluster Tiruchirappalli Engineering
2 Place Tiruchirappalli
3 District Tiruchirappalli
4 State Tamil Nadu
5 No of firms (by type) Tamilnadu 
6 No. of workers Tamilnadu 
7 Turnover(Rs in Million's) Tamilnadu
8 Associations in cluster BHEL Small Scale Industries Association (BHELSSIA)
Trichy Machinists Association (TMA)
Thuvakkudi Industrial Estate Manufacturer Association(TIEMA)
Trichy District Small Scale Industries Association(TIDITSSIA)
Tamil Nadu Small and Tiny Industries Association (TANSTIA)
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
9 Major products Boilers
Heat exchangers
Pressure vessels
10 Specific and relevant technical institutions (R&D, Testing Lab accredited) Strength of Regional Engineering College (REC) Trichy.
11 Major markets National Market
12 Major problems/prospects Location of the cluster, highfreight component and inabilityto develop a national market.
Spoon feeding by BHEL leading to lack of design skills and costing knowledge.
Jobber attitude of many promoters and reliance on sub-contracting
Perceived as a low-technology and an unglamorous field.
13 Data source and updated on Diagnostic study of the Engineering Cluster, Trichy, Tamil Nadu by the Cluster Development Cell, Trichirappalli Regional Engineering College, Science &Technology Entrepreneurs Park prepared under the aegis of the UNIDO project: Support to country effort to promote SME Cluster Development in India, 2002-2005 on in year October 2002