GM has opened its second plant in western India that it says will nearly triple its Indian annual production capacity to 225,000 vehicles a year.
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The company said it had invested 300m dollars in the new factory in Talegaon, near Pune city, 160 kilometers southeast of Mumbai (Bombay).
The company currently produces 85,000 cars a year in India.
The new plant will have an annual output of 140,000 vehicles and will boost GM’s total annual production by 165 percent to 225,000 vehicles.
GM India, a fully-owned unit of General Motors, sells products under the Chevrolet brand in India.
GM India last week announced it would invest another 200m dollars in an adjacent facility aimed at producing 300,000 engines a year for both domestic and export markets.
“The inauguration of our new facility makes a clear statement about our commitment to India,” GM’s president and chief operating officer Fritz Henderson told reporters.
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