Hanover Industrial Fair 2008 highlights energy as the major issue for industry in the future

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RISING oil prices are causing many industrialists, entrepreneurs and corporate executives to wonder how their manufacturing operations are going to cope. 'Energy has become the oxygen which keeps the manufacturing sector alive,' said Ravinder N Khanna, an Indian expert on energy and the chairman of the Delhi-based Control & Switchgear Group whose products include components and complete systems for power generation. 'Economically viable supply of energy is essential for the industry' he continued in an interview at the Hannover Industrial Fair. The world's largest industrial show had energy as a key theme; indeed, the organiser, Deutsche Messe AG, had even arranged a 'World Energy Dialogue' which had experts talking about the challenges facing the industry as far as energy supply was concerned. An expert told this writer that an adequate and reliable supply of energy will be the 'mother of all issues' for industrial production in the future.