Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced that it will invest approximately $280 million in its manufacturing joint venture, Fiat India Automobiles, with Tata Motors. The manufacturing facility in Ranjangaon, located around 31 miles (50 km) from Pune in the western state of Maharashtra, will support the production of a new Jeep vehicle. Production is...
Wipro-GE Healthcare Launches First India-Made CT Machine
Wipro GE Healthcare shipped out the first Computed Tomography system designed and developed in India to a hospital in Pune, in the western state of Maharashtra. “This is the first CT system to be entirely designed, developed and manufactured in India,” said Milan Rao, President and CEO, GE Healthcare South...
Philips Innovates for India and the World
Philips Healthcare Innovation Center (HIC) in Pune designs and makes equipment for local and global markets. In two years the facility has successfully doubled unit growth, launched global products, filed multiple patents and received significant investments. Their most recent innovation is the MobileDiagnost Opto, a mobile digital x-ray system that...
Cummins to Expand Pune Tech Center to 2,000 Engineers
ETAuto reports that generator and engine maker Cummins will hire 500 additional engineers for a global R&D hub that is being expanded in Pune, in the western state of Maharashtra. “We are investing $160 million in that. It will be one of the largest technical centers globally,” said Anant J....
Automotive Mechatronics Supplier Develops Products in Pune
Marquardt, a Germany-based maker of mechatronic components, has set up an R&D center at Hinjewadi in Pune in the western state of Maharashtra. The facility will collaborate on products for the global automotive segment. “In the past year we have received our largest contract in India from Tata Motors. Starting...
Pune to Host Microsoft Cloud Data Center
Microsoft will launch its data center in Pune city, in the western state of Maharashtra, by the end of this year, said Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman of Microsoft India. Pramanik said that the center “would address the concerns of data sovereignty”. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO had earlier commented that he sees...