Suzuki Motor Corporation’s Indian automobile production and sales subsidiary Maruti Udyog has been renamed Maruti Suzuki India Limited.
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Maruti was established in 1983 to build the then-current Suzuki Alto 800 and, by the end of March, 2007 had produced 6.4m vehicles, making it India’s largest motor manufacturer. The original Alto is still made but the product range has been expanded to provide more upmarket cars such as the Swift to increasingly affluent Indians.
Maruti Suzuki has 4,700 employees based at its original plant at Gurgaon while a new plant at Manesar opened in 2006 to meet steadily rising demand. Gurgaon is built on a 1.2m sq m site while Manesar has a total site area of 2.4msq m. The combined built area of both plants is 380,000 sq m.
Facilities are currently being further expanded to accommodate production of new models and increased exports to Europe and other markets to be increased. By 2009 production capacity will be 960,000 units annually, representing a further investment of almost GBP900m [JPY200bn].
The expansion includes a new diesel engine plant at Manesar building under licence from Fiat Powertrain. Diesel engines from here will be supplied to Magyar Suzuki, Suzuki’s Hungarian subsidiary, for installation in the new Suzuki Splash city car and Opel and Vauxhall versions built for General Motors Europe. The diesel engine plant has around 600 employees.
