Bajaj Auto commissions new plant at Pantnagar, Uttarakhand

Our Corporate Bureau
10 April 2007

Mumbai: Bajaj Auto Limited inaugurated its greenfield two-wheeler Pantnagar plant at Uttarakhand with a planned capacity of one million motorcycles per annum.

Built on a 65-acre area with another 155 acres allocated for a vendor cluster, the Pantnagar facility is Bajaj Auto's fourth plant and the first outside Maharashtra. The unit has a plant area of 40,000 sq mtr and will employ 600 line engineers who have been trained at Chakan for three months.

In a pioneering manufacturer-vendor partnership, the Bajaj Pantnagar plant will be supported by manufacturing facilities of 16 auto component vendors in the immediate proximity. A part of the land area allocated to Bajaj has been taken up by vendors to set up dedicated facilities to ensure seamless integration with the mother plant resulting in phenomenal manufacturing efficiency.

These cluster suppliers will meet 75 per cent of the component requirement of the new plant. These vendors will operate as the extended factory of the core Bajaj plant. Systems and processes would make this unit the ultimate lean unit in terms of manufacturing efficiency. All supplies from shops and suppliers will be on e-Kanban.

The Pantnagar plant is a compact focused manufacturing facility, which despite being the lowest cost production unit would adhere to the highest global quality standards. This new manufacturing concept is expected to yield 10 times the productivity of other comparable two-wheeler units.