Hindustan Motors (HM) plans to double its capacity at its Tiruvallur facility here to 24,000 units to support its new launches. The company also plans to launch a premium sedan – Lancer Evolution X – on behalf of its Japanese partner Mitsubishi Motors Corporation.
The company is also in talks with other car companies for ‘contract manufacturing’, to roll out their models at its plant here.
“We plan to increase capacity to 24,000 units a year by 2013-14,” HM Executive Vice-President and Business Head Y V S Vijay Kumar told reporters here.
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