Atul Auto's new facility near A'bad to produce 60,000 units per annum.

Rajkot-based three wheeler manufacturer Atul Auto Limited is setting up a new production unit near Ahmedabad in Gujarat. The company, which already has a manufacturing facility in Rajkot, recently acquired about 34 acres land for its facility in Ahmedabad.

'Since last one year, we were looking for land for the expansion of the company. Now, we have identified and acquired land, some 50 km from Ahmedabad. The production capacity of new plant will be about 60,000 units per annum,' said Jitendra Adhia, vice-president-finance, Atul Auto Limited.

The project's total investment would be about Rs. 150 crore and the fund will be managed through internal sources. Presently, a company official said legal formalities for acquiring land are going on and the company plans to begin work on setting up the plant from January 2015.

Adhia said, 'Our aim is to complete this project by the end of March 2017. The new unit will produce petrol model also, a new segment for us. Presently, we are involved in production of diesel model only and enjoy about 13 per cent market share in it.'

The company had doubled its manufacturing capacity at its Rajkot plant from 24,000 units to 48,000 units in April last year with an investment of Rs. 50 crore.

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