According to reports in the media, India’s largest automaker, Tata Motors, has announced a 3-day block closure, from November 13-15, at its commercial vehicle manufacturing plant at Pimpri, near Pune in Mahrashtra. However, the company has categorically maintained that it has resorted to such a move due to the paucity in supply of spare parts from its vendor in Jaipur, after the factory supplying the parts was damaged in fire. The news of closure comes just when the auto major was witnessing a revival in sales volumes after a year of slow growth.
Debasis Ray, head, corporate communication, Tata Motors, said, “We have announced a block closure of the commercial vehicle division at the Pimpri plant from November 13 to 15 this month. The decision was taken after there was a shortage in supply of fuel injection pumps from our Jaipur-based vendor. There was a fire in the Indian Oil Depot at Jaipur last week. As a result, the operations of our vendor at Jaipur were impacted.” He also said, with the present availability of fuel injections, the company cannot keep its production of commercial vehicles going. So, the company has resorted to a block closure. But the operations at the car plant would continue as usual, he said.
When quizzed about the name of the supplier, he said, “I don’t have the name for that.” However, a couple of media reports claim that Pimpri plant is closed because of a disruption of supplies from its component supplier, Bosch, whose plant at Jaipur manufactures fuel injection pumps. The auto component maker’s plant faced a disruption on account of the fire at the Indian Oil depot in Jaipur last week.
Meanwhile, Business Standard has reported that nearly 60-odd vendors will move to the vendor park at Tata Nano’s Sanand plant by March next year, adding that the commercial production of the car is likely to begin during the last quarter this fiscal. In the interim, Tata motors’ Nano vendors will be supplying its parts from its existing plant until they shift. The above business daily also stated that Rajkot-based Amul Industries, exclusive suppliers of connecting rods and crankshafts for the Nano, is in the process of shifting its machinery parts from Rajkot to Sanand, where it will invest nearly Rs. 15 crore. Another major vendor, like Bosch India (mentioned above), who are supplying brake solutions, fuel injection systems, the electronic control unit, starter motor and generator for the Nano, also told the above newspaper they had started working on the vendor park facility, where it will commission a brake assembly facility. However, it will continue to supply fuel injection from its current facility in Bangalore.
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