Maruti Suzuki will raise production of its best selling Swift hatchback by over 40% and shift its entire output to its new Manesar factory after a month of industrial unrest there ended.
In the next few weeks, the company will start full manufacturing at Manesar, its second plant.
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“This will help us increase the output of Swift to 17,000 units a month from our historical highs of 12,000 units a month,” a senior Maruti Suzuki official told Economic Times of India (ETI). The company will also resume normal production of SX4 and A-star [Alto] models, ETI added.
Maruti’s entire Swift production will now take place in Manesar, freeing up capacity at the Gurgaon plant which was used as a stopgap measure during the strike. This will help Maruti save on logistics cost incurred shipping body panels from Manesar to Gurgaon for car assembly.
