Eicher Motors’ total two-wheeler production capacity will reach around 150,000 units per annum by 2013. The automobile major’s Rs 150 crore new facility at Oragadam near Chennai will be ready and is expected to be commissioned by the first quarter of 2013.
Besides, the company’s two wheeler business division, Royal Enfield in order to meet the growing demand for its Bullet and Thunderbird motorcycles has increased the capacity of its plant by 3,000 units to 10,000 units per month.
The division which also looks after overseas markets for its two-wheelers ships around 4,000 motorcycles per annum to markets like the US, Britain, Germany, France and Australia.
