Federal-Mogul Goetze (India)'s board approved a ₹335 crore (3,351 million) capacity addition at Bahadurgarh–Patiala, Yelahanka and Bhiwadi, to be funded from internal accruals and completed within 18 months.
ZF Wind Power will expand wind turbine gearbox manufacturing at its Coimbatore plant from 12 GW to 15 GW, investing almost ₹250 crore. The additional facilities are expected to be commissioned by June 2027.
MAHLE started e-compressor production at its Coimbatore plant in India with a EUR 7.0 million investment, creating around 50 jobs. At full capacity the line can produce more than 300,000 e-compressors per year.
Subros approved capacity expansion at Karsanpura, Gujarat, adding 400,000 electric compressors and 500,000 ICE compressors per year for a total investment of INR 265 crore.
Bosch has inaugurated Phase II of its expanded smart factory in Bidadi near Bengaluru, built with an investment of 31 million euros to make powertrain products such as common rail pumps and high-pressure rails.
BorgWarner celebrated the opening of its expanded 4,023 square metre facility in Kakkalur, Tamil Nadu, which adds a production line for variable cam timing systems to serve India and Southeast Asia.
ZF Friedrichshafen opened a shock absorber production line at its regional headquarters in Chakan, Pune, with an annual capacity of 0.7 million units, planned to rise to 3 million units within 3 to 4 years.
ZF Friedrichshafen started a new shock absorber production line at its regional headquarters in Chakan, Pune, India, with annual capacity of 0.7 million units, planned to rise to three million units within three to four years.
BorgWarner expanded manufacturing at its Kakkalur facility in Thiruvallur near Chennai by adding 1,500 square metres to its production line, hiring more than 80 people and starting variable cam timing system production.
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.
Nippon Piston Ring will invest one billion yen (US$8.9 million) to raise valve seat output by 30 percent at its factory in Karnataka, India, as car and motorcycle production ramps up. The 8,000 sq m facility can reportedly produce around 3 million valve seats per month.
BorgWarner Cooling Systems (India) has opened a fully automated Visctronic assembly line at its plant in Sriperumpudur near Chennai. The line has an annual capacity of 500,000 units and will start rolling out products in Q2 2017 for BS-IV applications.
BorgWarner plans to add 17,000 square feet of manufacturing and engineering space at its Kakkalur, India engine timing components plant later in 2017, marking 15 years of the facility.