Honda beefs up motorcycle production in India
Honda’s Indian motorcycle and scooter arm is to build a motorcycle production plant there to meet increasing demand for motorcycles in India.
The new plant will complement Honda’s existing production plant in the Gurgaon District in Haryana, where production will be ramped up from 1.25m cycles per year to 1.55m by the end of this month, with a further expansion to 1.6m cycles planned for next year.
To build the second plant, Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) will acquire approximately 240,000m2 of land within the Tapukara Industrial Area in Rajasthan, which is approximately 40km from the existing plant and around 90km from Delhi.
The new plant is scheduled to become operational in the latter half of 2011 with annual production capacity of 600,000 units. When it becomes operational, it will employ approximately 2,000 people and bring HMSI’s total annual production capacity to 2.2m units per year.
India represents the world’s second-largest motorcycle market behind only China, and industry-wide motorcycle sales in India for 2009 reached 8.78m units (up 19 per cent compared to 2008).
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