Industrial Automation Magazine India

NORD Drivesystems expands Pune facility

Published on : Friday 20-12-2019

NORD Drivesystems expands facility in Pune to cater to the growing demand of large gearboxes and industrial gearbox units.

 December 2019 – Nord Drivesystems announced the expansion of its current facility at Hinjewadi, Pune on 21st November 2019. The inauguration was done at the hands of Shri Vikram Kumar (IAS) Metropolitan Commissioner, PMRDA. Also present at the occasion were Ms Jutta Humbert, Managing Partner, NORD Drivesystems Group, Mr PL Muthusekkar, MD, NORD Drivesystems, Pvt Ltd amongst other dignitaries.

As of today NORD Drivesystems India’s manufacturing facility has an installed capacity of 42000 geared motors per annum plus a 22000 electrical motor assembly with a utilisation factor between 75 to 80%. These requirements are served through two NORD production plants, one in Hinjewadi MIDC Phase II started in November 2007 and the second facility in Hinjewadi MIDC Phase I which was established in the year October 2017. Considering the consistently growing Indian market and NORD India consolidating its presence further, the Management has taken a decision to further increase its production capacity especially for the large gearboxes and IGU (Industrial Gearbox Units).

The newly acquired plant expansion is just adjacent to the existing NORD Drivesystems plant with a connecting road in between. It is spread on an area measuring 7211sq.m whilst the building area is 3213sq.m.

This will be NORD India´s third facility in row. NORD India plans to use this new available space for the production of the large gearbox assemblies whose demand is continuously increasing in the domestic market. It will also accommodate a bigger warehouse to support the proposed large gearbox production, making way for more production space in the existing building for medium size geared motors.

Last year NORD India Motor production facility had also got approved by BIS, Quality governing body under Govt. of India for ISI marked Motor production which recently has being enhanced further to include all Motor ranges up to 55kW ratings.

Further with time, NORD India plans to include new gearbox variants into its production portfolio like Industrial Gearbox Units (IGU) production along with specialiged paint shop facility. With full commissioning of this new facility, NORD India would be covering almost 90% of the offered NORD catalogue products locally from Pune for the Domestic market as well as SAARC countries.