The Gujarat Food and Drug Control Administration approved layout designs of 150 pharmaceutical companies including Illinois-based Abbott, Baxter, Israel-based Teva, Japanese company Otsuka Pharmaceutical, among others, from July 2017 onward. The manufacturing units include APIs, formulations, and medical device units. In Gujarat, a manufacturing park which will help reduce capital...
Exports Look Up for Global Auto Makers in India
According to the latest export numbers released by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, Ford India maintained a strong export trajectory for April - September 2017. With 82,347 units (+11.5% growth) Ford has the biggest share, accounting for 22.7% of the shipments. Built at the integrated Sanand plant in Gujarat,...
Gujarat Leads Race to Manufacture Electric Vehicles in India
With the Government of India's initiative to put 1 million electric vehicles on the roads by 2019 , car and bike makers are preparing to manufacture electric and hybrid systems. The western state of Gujarat is set to become the electric vehicle hub of India. Ford Motor Co., which has...
Uflex Invests $300 million in Food Packaging Plant in Sanand, India
Asserting that the aseptic packaging market in India will double within the next three to four years from the current 8 billion packs, Uflex has invested $300 million in a plant in India which will begin operations in 2017. This type of packaging sterilizes the food product and the packaging...
Ford to Announce Major R&D Center in Chennai
The Ford Motor Company has decided to invest $620 million in an R&D center in Chennai according to the Economic Times of India "There's a tremendous engineering talent here, and we want to tap into that and grow our product development capability here methodically over a period of time," CEO...
Will We See a Made in India Ford on U.S. Dealer Lots?
The 2017 Ford Ecosport could be the first car to be exported to the U.S. market from India from Ford’s new manufacturing and engine plant in Sanand, Gujarat. Spread across 460 acres, the plant is an integrated facility comprising of a vehicle manufacturing facility and an engine plant. Ford has...