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The traffic tells a story. During the lockdown, it took 45 minutes to zip through the deserted 35-km stretch from Chennai to reach the automobile heart of Sriperumbudur-Oragadam, where the big names of the car industry — Hyundai Motor India, Renault-Nissan India, Daimler India Commercial Vehicles, Apollo Tyres, and Royal Enfield — are based.
Today, it takes two hours, sometimes more. The automobile nucleus is humming again. The industry’s order books are full. But the fortunes of large manufacturers and their small and medium component suppliers vary.
At his small plant, where he makes power metallurgy furnaces for automobile components
