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Ford boosts Chennai engine plant capacity
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Ford has boosted engine production capacity by 36 per cent at the Chennai plant
Ford India’s Chennai engine plant has completed its capacity expansion programme that has made it the company’s regional small engine hub. The plant will now be able to produce 3,60,000 engines annually which is an increase of 36 per cent. The plant now produces 12 Duratec petrol engine variants and five Duratorq diesel engine variants, nearly 40 per cent of which will be exported.
Ford has invested $72 million (Rs 396.6 crore) in the expansion of the Chennai engine plant. Also part of the expansions are enhanced crankshaft machining, cylinder head and cylinder block machining thanks to new equipment.
The expansion programme was completed in just over 14 months and will allow Ford India to produce 80,000 more diesel engines annually. This will cater to the Indian market demand for diesel cars. Ford has incorporated a flexi PowerTrain facility as a part of the expansion whereby a single flexible production line will be able to manufacture petrol or diesel engines according to the demand pattern of the market. Also read: Ford launches New Classic Titanium Variant
The Chennai engine plant has also become the first Ford plant in the world that has a flexible production line for manufacturing petrol and diesel engines. It is also Ford’s first engine plant to run a flexible crankshaft production line, a fully flexible cold test, hot test, dyno test facility for petrol and diesel engines.
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