Auto component maker Vitesco has commenced production at its new facility in Talegaon. The new facility, built with a 30 million euro investment, will provide the company with a base to expand its manufacturing operations in the country. The new facility will initially manufacture components for two wheelers only, with further expansion to cover four wheelers and commercial vehicles to take place in the future.
Vitesco says that it's new plant will roll out powertrain solutions products such as engine management systems, sensors, and actuators, as well as exhaust management components. Vitesco manufactures a vast range of components for the auto sector ranging from electric motors and engine control units to components for exhausts and more, and it will concentrate its efforts at this facility on the growing demand for highly efficient, low-emission technologies for internal combustion engines, as well as electrified and all-electric drive systems.
During the inauguration event, Klaus Hau, Member of the Executive Board, Vitesco Technologies said, "Building this factory was a major milestone for Vitesco Technologies, allowing us to provide better value to our clients in the Indian market". “The objective is to achieve a twin technological transformation: from fossil fuels to renewable energy, and from analogue - to - digital technology. We embrace this transformation and have already begun to design our strategic course” he added.
Anurag Garg, Managing Director & Country Head of Vitesco Technologies India Private Limited said, “Several creative projects have been completed at this facility. These projects on digitization, automation, and sustainability across our manufacturing network have helped us to shape the Plant of the Future”. He further added, “Due to the growing carbon footprint, we also considered the climate change while building this facility. I am delighted to say that the facility in Pune is operating at a carbon-neutral level and has fully established itself as a driver of sustainability”.
Vitesco's new plant in Pune is built on a 20 acre land parcel, and contains more than 17,580 sq. meters of manufacturing space. This factory has 900 employees, and has over 25 cobots and robots installed on the production lines and shopfloor to pursue automation and digitization. The factory also runs entirely one renewable energy, and also has solar panels which generate as much as 3 GWh of solar energy.
