Honda To Setup World’s Largest Scooter Manufacturing Plant in Gujarat

[350Z]

Honda Two Wheelers this morning laid the foundation stone for its landmark fourth manufacturing plant in India which is located at Vithalapur, Gujarat.

> This plant is spread across 250 acres

> Plant will be operational by the end of 2015

> Vithalapur is approximately 80 Kms far from Ahmedabad city

> The annual manufacturing production capacity will be 1.2 million units

> This capacity expansion plan will increase HMSI's total annual production capacity to 5.8 million units

> It includes 1.6 million units at first plant (Haryana), 1.2 million units at second plant (Rajasthan) and 1.8 million units at third plant (Karnataka)

Elaborating how the upcoming 4th plant is a significant milestone in Honda’s global business, Mr. Noriaki Abe, Chief Operating Officer, Honda Motor Company Ltd- Asia & Oceania Region, said, “As the World’s biggest two-wheeler market, India is already a priority market for Honda. In the current fiscal 2014-15, Honda aims to sell 18.2 million two-wheelers worldwide and for the first time, India will contribute almost 25% to global Honda sales. We have huge expectations from this project as this will be our flagship and benchmark plant in India in terms of volume, safety, quality, cost, associate skill and moral. ”

Sharing details of Honda’s fourth plant, Mr. Yoshiyuki Matsumoto, Managing Officer - Honda Motor Co. Ltd., said, “I would like to thank the Gujarat Government for their support in setting up the plant. With the fourth plant, we aim to reach closer to the vast market in West which contributes over 25% to Honda business. The new plant will employ approximately 3000 people within first 2 years of commercial production and will entail INR 1,100 crores investment. Honda’s fourth plant 1.2 million units annual production capacity and increase our overall production capacity to 5.8 million units.”

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Keita Muramatsu-President & CEO, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India, said, “Indian automatic scooter market is growing at 2.5 times the speed of overall 2wheeler industry growth. The latent demand of automatic scooter is so strong that with improving infrastructure in rural India, we foresee that this segment sale can go up to 35% of overall two-wheeler sales in 5-10 year horizon. As we gear up to take up this challenge of meeting the customer demand, Gujarat will an ideal home and a springboard to achieve greater heights. Now, the Honda automatic scooter you ride will not only be “Made in India” but also “Made in Gujarat.”

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Drive Safe,
350Z

 

[dhoom9]

Welcome to GUJARAT !!

 

[TSIVipul]

Haha, we are going to be partners at one of the vendors for this plant.

Looks like Japanese giants have started putting up their investments in India.

 

[jaspalvermaa]

By which process two wheeler assemblies are manufactured?

Hello friends, Can anybody tell me the process by which two wheeler assemblies are manufactured ?