KOBELCO opens manufacturing facility at Sri City near Chennai

Kobelco Construction Machinery, a group company of Kobe Steel, Ltd., inaugurated its first manufacturing plant in India to manufacture hydraulic excavators, enabling Kobelco to make a full-scale entry into India’s rapidly growing Construction Equipment Market. This plant will be the first manufacturing facility of the Kobe Steel Group in India. The new plant is located in Sri City, about 55 kms north of Chennai. This modern facility is constructed on 68,000 Sq. mts. of land, and will have assembly, painting and shipping lines. With an initial annual production capacity of 1,200, the plant will initially produce 20-tonne class machines, for which the demand is the highest in India. Flexible plant equipment will enable KCEI to also make large machines, to meet future growth in demand. With this Indian plant in operation now, Kobelco Construction Machinery has plants at six locations – Japan, China, Thailand and India, in addition to US and Italy.

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