Ford India plans to open its factory at Sanand, Gujarat on 26 March. It will be the company’s second production plant in India after Chennai.

The automaker spent around US$1bn building the facility which will have annual capacity of 270,000 engines and 240,000 vehicles, The Hindu Business Line reported. Sanand will almost double the automaker’s capacity in India.

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Output from Gujarat will fill both domestic and Asian export orders.

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