Hindustan Motors plans to double the capacity of TN plant

Hindustan Motor, country's oldest and the most reputed car maker revealed its plans to expand the production capacity of its manufacturing unit at Thiruvallur by the year 2012. The officials from the company said that although the plant has a capacity of 12,000 units, it presently produces only 5000 units. The company is expecting the production to grow double by next year. The target of the company is to reach a production capacity of 24,000 units by the year 2012, Hindustan Motors India Executive-Vice President Y V S Vijay Kumar said.

Apart from the plant at Thiruvallur, the company also has a manufacturing unit at Uttarpara in West Bengal. Hindustan Motors has an impressive portfolio in India including sedans, SUV's and various other segment cars. Lancer-Cedia, Outlander, Pajero and Montero are amongst the premium sedans that are sold in India with the collaboration of Japanese automaker Mitsubishi.

Both the plants of the company are live and working with distributed production portfolios. The Uttarpara unit manufacturers Ambassador and multi-utility vehicles like Trekker, Porter and Pushpak. On the other hand the Thiruvallur plant produces Cedia, Outlander, Pajero and Montero.

Although the exact investment that would be put in for doubling the production is not revealed, but Mr. Kumar mentioned that a minimal amount would be invested. Initially the Thiruvallur plant was established to manufacture earth moving equipment. It was three decades ago in 1998 that the unit started to manufacture cars as well.

Hindustan Motors is going to launch the premium luxury sedan Mitsubishi Evolution 'EVOX' in August this year. The officials from the company were elated at the development and said that that car would be a very high performance four seater sedan delivering 300 BHP.