NORD India has made a strategic expansion adjacent to its Hinjewadi facility in Pune, manufacturing large gearboxes & Industrial Gearbox Units, with a target to raise capacity for the growing Indian market. In the august presence of Jutta Humbert, Chairman, Getriebebau-NORD GmbH & Co KG, P L Muthusekkar, Managing Director of NORD India, Chief Guest Vikram Kumar IAS, Metropolitan Commissioner, PMRDA inaugurated the new facility on 21st November 2019.
Considering the consistently growing Indian market and NORD India consolidating its presence further, the expansion has been made primarily with a view to manufacturing large gearboxes in the range of two tonnes. Talking to Machine Maker, P L Muthusekkar informed that the new facility will help reduced delivery time for Indian customers and also help Nord India to have more inventory space. “The new facility will trigger towards our mission 500 Crore turnover for Nord India within next couple of years”, said P L Muthusekkar.
India is the fifth-largest market for us and we hope to achieve sales of one billion Euros globally by 2024. We are planning to appoint another 25 people to post our expansion now
Jutta Humbert
Managing Director, Getriebebau-NORD GmbH & Co KG
Today, NORD India's manufacturing facility has an installed capacity of 42,000 geared motors per year plus a 22,000 electrical motor assembly with a utilization factor between 75 to 80 percent. The company intends to utilize this expansion to add to its capacity of geared motors by 12,000 units a year. Its throughput will also increase for smaller gearboxes, enabling it to have more stock. This will help NORD India to send supplies to their customers faster.
We entered the Indian market in 2005 as a trading company, established our manufacturing facility in 2008, and with this is the third expansion, we are moving more closer to our customers
P L Muthusekkar
Managing Director, Nord Drivesystems India
The new expansion, which is NORD India’s third expansion in India, is adjacent to the existing factory at Hinjewadi, Pune. It is spread on a 7,211 square meters area whilst the building area is 3213 square meters. This brings the total operational area of NORD India in Pune to 9,000 square meters. Further, with time, NORD India plans to include new gearbox variants into its product portfolio like Industrial Gearbox Units (IGU) production along with a specialized paint shop facility.
Our aim is to bring down the delivery time of our products, and this facility will help us to expand our product portfolio as well as increase our inventory management
Amit Deokule
General Manager – Sales, Nord Drivesystems India
NORD India primarily caters to the needs of the Indian market and exports around five percent of the output to the market of the SAARC countries. With full commissioning of this new facility, NORD India would be covering almost 90 percent of the offered NORD catalog products locally from Pune for the domestic market as well as SAARC countries.
Incorporated in the year 2005, Nord Drivesystems Private Limited is the100% subsidiary of Getriebebau NORD in Germany.
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