Saturday, April 24, 2010

Maruti to scale up production

The country's biggest carmaker Maruti Suzuki plans to increase manufacture by at least 70 000 units this year to meet demand manufacturing, a top company official said today.

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"We're trying to get rid of waste in developed operations and increase productivity levels of workers. Our goal is to produce at least 70 000 cars with all these events," Maruti Suziki Chief Executive Officer IV Rao said.

Rao, who said that there is a long in the making list for some of the hot selling brands such as Swift and Swift Dezire, sharp out that according to industry reports, the car market witnessed 10.12 percent growth during the year.

Going by that outcrop, Maruti Suzuki, which crossed the one million car last year, will have to produce at least 100 000 extra units this year to meet demand, he said.

Today, the plants are working at more than 100 percent capacity. Maruti has two plants in Gurgaon and moon together have an installed capacity of 800,000 cars.

According to Rao, Maruti exported 140,000 cars to other countries, mainly in Europe, in the year before. He hoped to maintain the same number of years as well.

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