# Marquardt India to expand Pune R&D centre and double engineering headcount to 500

Marquardt India plans to move its R&D operations into a bigger Pune facility with labs and prototyping, and to grow engineering headcount from 250 to 500 within about two years. The land for the new facility has already been bought.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2018-09-10
- Where: Pune, India
- Status: announced
- Products: automotive switches, HMI multimedia switches, shift-by-wire systems
- Sectors: [Automotive Components](https://endata.com/sectors/automotive-components.md)

## Companies

- [Marquardt India](https://endata.com/companies/3847.md)
- [Marquardt](https://endata.com/companies/3848.md)

## Sources

- [autocarpro.in](https://www.autocarpro.in/feature/marquardt-india-plans-rd-centre-expansion-new-plant-in-pune-too-40663), 2018-09-10: "We plan to move into a bigger development facility, which will also have multiple laboratories."

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