Pune Automobile & Aerospace Industry

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Mumbai, May 25:

The Tata group-promoted Tata Autocomp has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with TRAD of Japan to set up a research and development (R&D) centre in Pune.

The state-of-the-art R&D centre is aimed at developing better solutions for the Indian automotive market, a company press release stated.

“Tata Toyo has always been the frontrunner in offering cutting edge heat exchange technologies to its customers. This R&D centre will further enhance the capabilities of Tata Toyo and help it serve its customers better.

The aim is to ensure that technology which comes out of this R&D centre is developed in India, for customers in India,” Tata AutoComp Systems Ltd’s Managing Director & CEO, Mr R S Thakur, said.

Tata Toyo Radiator Limited is a joint venture between Tata AutoComp Systems Limited, TRAD Japan and Mitsubishi Metals.

It manufactures aluminium-based radiators, inter coolers, heater cores and exhaust gas recharge systems. The key customers of Tata Toyo include Ashok Leyland, Fiat, Force Motors, John Deer, Mahindra & Mahindra, Mahindra-Navistar, Man Force and Tata Motors, among others.

Tata AutoComp provides products and services to the Indian and global automotive OEMs as well as Tier 1 suppliers.

Its clients include Ashok Leyland, BMW, Fiat, Force Motors, Ford Motors India and General Motors India, among others.

TRAD Japan is a leading global manufacturer of heat exchangers. It has a manufacturing presence in several countries like the USA, Italy, Czech Republic, China, Thailand, Indonesia and Russia besides Japan and India.

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Jaguar Land Rover today opened the first assembly plant in India at Pune. Assembling vehicles imported from UK, the first vehicle to come off the assembly line is the Land Rover Freelander 2 shipped from the Halewood facility in Liverpool. The facility can assemble other cars, details of which are not clear. Both Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles are expected to be assembled at this plant.


JLR is planning an onslaught of models of the next four years to reach the top be on top in the luxury car market. Currently it sells Jaguar XJ, XF,and XK, the Land Rover Freelander 2, Discovery 4, Range Rover Sport and Range Rover in India.



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Hyosung, one of South Korea’s biggest two-wheeler brands, is looking to make India its production hub, making use of the country’s low-cost production abilities.

S&T Motors, which owns Seoul-based Hyosung, is planning for greater dependence on its Indian partner, Garware Motors, for setting up the facilities in the country to cater to the markets of America, Europe and Asia-Pacific region.


As for Garware Motors, it on Thursday launched the GT650 N, a performance bike in India at Rs 4.39 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi). This is the third bike from the company, after the GT650 R and ST7 it launched in April.

The players note that the cost of manufacturing in Korea is considerably higher than that of India. The 1978-founded S&T was contemplating China as a production base too, but better prospects of growth of India’s domestic two-wheeler market and its cost-effective manufacturing processes moved into its favour, said Diya Garware, managing director of Pune-based Garware Motors.

The 1957-incorporated Hyosung does not currently have a full manufacturing facility outside South Korea, even as it exports products to over 60 countries. Garware Motors, which has been in the business since 1960, is building a facility to assemble motorcycles and scooters at Wai in Maharashtra’s Satara district. (It has a manufacturing facility in Pune.)

As for Hyosung, its research and development wing may still remain in Korea. The brand makes higher-capacity engine-performance motorcycles in the 250cc to 650cc range, besides electric vehicles, scooters and terrain vehicles.

Both Garware Motors and S&T Motors, headquartered in Changwon in east-central Korea, are talking on forming a joint venture company which will oversee Hyosung’s India operations. “Hyosung is very aggressive with its plans in India,” pointed out Garware. “There are plans of having equity participation by both companies on a separate level.”

As for the three performance bikes of Garware, they are currently being assembled in India at a temporary facility in the state. The motorcycles are brought to India in a knocked down format (in various parts) and later put together in the country.

The company, with 4,000 employees, hopes to follow this launch with some off-road bikes next year. This will be followed by the 250cc class to be launched around June-July next year. Eventually the entire range of Hyosung branded two-wheelers will be introduced in India.

“The 250cc class of bikes is what will bring us the volumes in India,” said Garware. “We hope to sell 5,000-6,000 units of them per year upon launch by mid of next year. We will price the bike competitively but ours will be having a V-twin engine unlike the Honda CBR250.”

Garware Motors sold 325 units of the two bikes during the six months period ended September from a dealer base of 14 dealers. It hopes to achieve total sales of 1,200 units by the end of this year.

http://www.business-standard.com/ind...-india/452535/

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Cosma Magna to set up a Rs 300 cr greenfield plant in Pune

PUNE: Cosma Magna, a premier supplier of a range of body and chassis solutions to automobile OEM customers, is setting up a Rs 300 crore greenfield plant at Talegaon, near Pune.

The auto component manufacturer is part of the Canadian major Magna International and already has a presence in the Pune region, where some of its customers are located.

The greenfield facility will come up within a year, industry department officials confirmed to The ET. The 29 acre plot of land where this plant will come up has been sold to the Canadian company by ZF Steering Gear India for Rs. 47 crore. ZF Steering, a Rs. 298 crore joint venture with ZF Lensksysteme for the manufacture of mechanical and hydraulic powered steering gears for the automotive sector, had acquired the land in the Talegaon industrial area for its proposed expansion.

Dinesh Munot, chairman and managing director, ZF Steering, explained that the sale has been effected since these are uncertain times. "We don't need to invest now in these times of uncertainty. Industry is going through a dull phase and future growth is uncertain," he said, explaining why they have sold off the land. This plot would have housed expansion of the steering gear capacity for the JV which would have added to its existing plant at Vadu, about 25 kms from Pune on the road to Ahmednagar.

Talegaon and its neighbouring industrial areas of Pune, Chakan and Ranjangaon is auto-focused hub, home to domestic and international auto manufacturers and an auto component eco system. Among the companies in this region are Tata Motors, Bajaj Auto, Force Motors, Fiat, Volkswagen, General Motors and Foton along with off road equipment manufacturers JCB, John Deere, Hyundai and Sany. The two big Chinese OEMs are located here, namely Foton and Sany.

http://articles.economictimes.indiat...-gear-capacity

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The fifth international exhibition on technologies for automotive manufacturing will be held at Auto Cluster in Chinchwad from April 26 to 28. It is dedicated to automotive plant processes and systems. The automotive engineering show will also host the second edition of Excellence awards for innovation and creative automation.

Sameer Khedkar, exhibition director and managing director, Focused Event Management (P) Ltd, said, “Pune is home to some of the largest manufacturers of light, medium, and heavy-duty commercial vehicles, two-wheelers and stationary engines. Pune has more than 53 large companies with a collective turnover of over US$1,400 million and exports worth over US$235 million. Considering all this, there could be no better location than Pune for the show.” At second edition of the “Excellence awards for innovation and creative automation” on April 27, the awards to be presented are: Ingersoll Rand Energy Efficiency Award, Kennametal Environment Protection Award, Sandvik Coromant Productivity Award, Demag Safety Award and the Emergys Value Improvement Award. ENSPUNE: The fifth international exhibition on technologies for automotive manufacturing will be held at Auto Cluster in Chinchwad from April 26 to 28. It is dedicated to automotive plant processes and systems. The automotive engineering show will also host the second edition of Excellence awards for innovation and creative automation.

Sameer Khedkar, exhibition director and managing director, Focused Event Management (P) Ltd, said, “Pune is home to some of the largest manufacturers of light, medium, and heavy-duty commercial vehicles, two-wheelers and stationary engines. It has more than 53 large companies with a collective turnover of over US$1,400 million and exports worth over US$235 million. Considering all this, there could be no better location than Pune for the show.” At second edition of the “Excellence awards for innovation and creative automation” on April 27, the awards to be presented are: Ingersoll Rand Energy Efficiency Award, Kennametal Environment Protection Award, Sandvik Coromant Productivity Award, Demag Safety Award and the Emergys Value Improvement Award.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/ch...ril-26/940687/

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Mercedes Benz India will be increasing production capacity two fold over the next one year year where passenger cars are concerned. This increase in capacity will ensure that 20,000 units are produced per annum in a two shift mode at their plant in Chakan near Pune.
Further, the company will be pumping in additional investments to the tune of Rs.200 crores to install a paint shop that will have capacity to paint these 20,000 units thus produced. The new paint shop is expected to come into existence in the coming few months.
Currently the Chakan Plant assembles the Mercedes Benz C Class, E Class and S Class while M Class imported. New plans are in place to start producing M Class, B Class and A Class at the same Chakan plant. Production of M Class will get under way by the end of this year. This SUV was launched last month in India and is currently sold as a Completely Built Up (CBU) unit. Mercedes Benz plans on launching the new B Class in India as a CBU by this yearend while the A Class will be launch by June 2013. Though these will be launched as CBU's, Mercedes Benz India plans on keeping respective prices of these cars in such a way that they are assembled locally.
Over the next 18 months, Mercedes Benz India plans on reviving their efforts in India to an altogether different level. With the upcoming new lines and new paint shop at the Chakan Plant, Mercedes Benz total investments will reach Rs.650 to 700 crores. Mercedes Benz produces passenger cars, bus body building and a line of trucks at this Pune based plant.

http://www.rushlane.com/mercedes-ben...a-1236914.html

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Faurecia opens new unit in Pune

French auto components maker Faurecia has inaugurated a new, expanded R&D facility in Pune for automotive interior systems, automotive seating and auto exteriors, three of its four business groups.

Designed to accommodate 800 engineers, the tech centre is a fully integrated facility that can work on product design to validation for the three groups in which it is present in India.

Mr Christophe Schmitt, Executive Vice President, Faurecia Interior Systems, said that the company aims to develop products that are high on safety, quality and comfort at this centre.

This is Faurecia’s second centre in India after Bangalore where emission control technologies are developed. The company also has nine manufacturing plants in the country.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/...ref=wl_opinion

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Fiat India Automobiles Limited (FIAL), the country's ninth largest car maker by sales, in collaboration with Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A. (FGA) of Italy, has initiated its new technical aptitude and proficiency development programme, 'Diksha', to open advanced educational conduits and technical guidance for interested and worthy youngsters.

Expressing his views, Rajeev Kapoor, CEO, Fiat India Automobiles Limited, said, “We strongly feel that we need to keep pace with the changing dynamics in the world of manufacturing and it also believed that there is a need for up-gradation at our vocational centres so that we can generate skilled talent tailor-made to deliver in this highly competitive sector. With this initiative we hope to deliver highly skilled and trained manpower that will cater to the automobile industry and also ensure them of a source of employment and self sustainability.”

Reportedly, Fiat India has acquired help from Donbosco Vyawasaik Prashikshan Kendra, Pune for the training programme. The company provided intellectual insight and financial assistance to the aforementioned institution for setting up the training and guidance centre under the name 'FIAT & Don Bosco Experiential Skill Training Centre'. The training programme will take place from the Don Bosco Professional Training Centre (DBPTC) in Chinchwad, near Pune.

The Don Bosco's responsibilities include ensuring proper accreditation of all training courses by the Indian Government and the enrolment process of worthy candidates. Don Bosco also carries the task of training, supervision and teaching of the course module.

In the Diksha initiative, Fiat India will be charged with a liability of improving the overall skill and knowledge capabilities of trainers, teachers and also ensuring practical training and internship opportunities for both – the students and trainers. The company will also provide training equipments, materials and aids, comprising information regarding its products and components.

Within duration of four months, Diksha programme's course module comprises basic information regarding Fiat's contemporary four-wheel technology and technical insights.

Reportedly, three groups of 25 students will be enrolled for the four-month long programme with a two-year long programme called 'Centre of Excellence, which are to be arranged simultaneously. Both the programs will be certified by the National Council for Vocational Training – New Delhi along with a Joint Certification from FIAT and Don Bosco. The programme and course module is said to be of the same quality, compared with the State driven ITI (Industry Training Institute) courses.

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