Maruti Suzuki's Upcoming Sonipat Plant To Be The Company's Largest Production Unit

Maruti Suzuki India is currently gearing up to begin work on its new production facility, which will come up in Sonipat district, Haryana. The new plant, which will be spread across over 900 acres of land in the Kharkhoda area, will replace the company Gurugram facility, and it is likely to become Maruti Suzuki's largest production unit in India. Right now, the company's existing facilities in Gurugram and Manesar have three assembly lines each, and a combined production capacity of 1.5 million units. The new Sonipat facility, on the other hand, is likely to have four assembly lines, and is expected to have a capacity of about a million units.

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Speaking with ET Auto, Maruti Suzuki India's Chairman, R C Bhargava said "Unlike Gurugram and Manesar, there is land available to set up a fourth assembly line at Sonipat." The company will soon begin the construction of the new plant, and the first assembly line will be ready by 2025. "We are waiting for the clearances and will begin construction shortly. The first assembly line at the unit will be commissioned within three years," Bhargava added.

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The upcoming plant in Sonipat will replace Maruti Suzuki India's Gurugram facility, and the first assembly line will be ready by 2025

In addition to vehicles produced at the Haryana plants, Maruti Suzuki also sources vehicles from the Suzuki Motor Gujarat (SMG) in Gujarat, which is wholly owned by its parent company Suzuki Motor Corporation. The upcoming plant in Sonipat will replace the company's Gurugram facility, which was the company first production facility in India, and from where the iconic Maruti 800 was rolled out in 1983. However, the facility is no longer convenient for the company. Right now, there are several residential areas nearby, which has led to issues of traffic and road congestion.

Between April-December 2021, Maruti Suzuki sold 1,163,823 units, a growth of 20.5 per cent compared to the vehicles sold during the same period in 2020

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In December 2021, the company's total vehicle production stood at 152,029 units, a decline of nearly 2 per cent YoY against 155,127 units manufactured in the same month in 2020. Maruti Suzuki said that the shortage of electronic components continued to have a minor impact on the production of vehicles during the month. Last month the company's total sales stood at 153,149 units, witnessing a small 4 per cent decline, compared to 160,226 vehicles sold in December 2020. However, between April-December 2021, the company's total sales stood at 1,163,823 units, a growth of 20.5 per cent compared to 965,626 vehicles sold during the same period in 2020.

Source: ET Auto