Hitachi Home & Life Solutions (India) (HHLI), a subsidiary of Hitachi Appliances Inc., Japan, has inaugurated its reconstructed air-conditioner manufacturing unit-2 at Kadi in Gujarat. The Chief Minister of Gujarat inaugurated the plant on January 13, 2013. The plant was entirely gutted in a major fire incident which happened on July 18, 2012. This manufacturing facility is unit-2 of the company’s plant at Kadi, 40 km. from Ahmedabad.
This facility spread at a plot of 85,000 square meters with approximately 35,000 square meters of industrial shed, was re-built in a record time of five and half months. The plant has a capacity to produce 6 lakh units (2.3 lakh units in single shift) per year. The facility will be manufacturing window & spit air-conditioners, water cooled chillers, set free (front flow) and spacemaker (telecom tower AC).
Hitachi Home and Life Solutions (India), popularly known as Hitachi, is engaged in manufacturing a range of electronic home solutions. The company is among the leading air-conditioning companies in India, which exports to SAARC, Middle East and few more countries globally.