Hayes Lemmerz International Indian subsidiary Kalyani Lemmerz has completed the expansion of its commercial vehicle steel wheel facility, bringing annual capacity to 800,000.
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Kalyani Lemmerz expects to add an additional 200,000 units of capacity in future months, bringing the total annual capacity of the facility to 1m units.
The company also announced that Kalyani Lemmerz will build a new plant to produce passenger car steel wheels.
The plant will be located next to its existing commercial vehicle steel wheel facility and is expected to begin production October 2008. The new manufacturing facility will support 2,000,000 steel wheels per year with the ability to increase production capacity to 4,000,000 units in future years.
Kalyani Lemmerz Limited is located in Chakan near Pune, the center of India’s automotive components manufacturing industry, approximately 100 miles from Mumbai (Bombay).
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By GlobalData“The expansion, both in commercial and passenger car steel wheels, strengthens our presence in the fast-growing India market and also enables us to support our customers around the globe,” said Hayes Lemmerz’ global wheel group chief operating office and president Fred Bentley.
Hayes Lemmerz owns 85% of the equity in Kalyani Lemmerz Limited. The remaining 15% is held by companies in the Kalyani group.
