Maruti to partly shift car prod from Gurgaon to Manesar

The country's biggest car maker Maruti Suzuki India today said it would shift  some of its car production from its Gurgaon plant to the new facility at Manesar in a phased manner.     

"The Gurgaon plant will be gradually changed to a base for engine assembly and machining, while automobile assembly will be integrated at Manesar plant," the company said in a statement.     

It, however did not specify production of which of the models would be shifted from the plant.     

The Gurgaon plant produces mainly M800, Omni, Versa and Gypsy. The company has a production capacity of 6.2 lakh units at its three plants in Gurgaon producing other models, including Alto, Wagon R, Estilo, Ritz, and Gypsy.

The Manesar facility of the company, which manufactures A-Star, SX4, Swift and Swift DZiRE, has a capacity of three lakh units a year.     

The decision to shift production was taken during Suzuki Motor Corp's Chairman and Suzuki's CEO visit to India to attend MSI's annual general meeting, it said.     

MSI had scaled up its overall production capacity to one million units this year from the two facilities at Gurgaon and Manesar.The Gurgaon Plant was constructed in early 1970’s and had been refurbished and modified before Maruti Udyog began production in 1983.