Bosch Rexroth to drive in near Nano in Sanand

Bosch Rexroth (India) Ltd, a subsidiary of German automation giant Bosch Group, a drive and control solutions for industrial applications, has bought private land near the Tata Nano site in Sanand recently with plans to set up its second manufacturing unit in the state.

R S Desai, executive director, Bosch Rexroth India said that "We are yet to take a final call on the production capacity and the product category. We have bought 135,000 square meter of land in Sanand for Rs 450 million (Rs 45 crore). Finer details are likely to be worked out in the next two months". According to industry sources, the investment in the upcoming plant could be around Rs 3-5 billion (Rs 300-500 crore) and it could employ around 1500 people.

The company offers technology solutions for industrial applications across five technology branches: industrial hydraulics, electric drives and controls, linear motion and assembly technologies, pneumatics, and mobile hydraulics.

The company started a manufacturing facility in Ahmedabad at its Vatva site in 1976. It manufactures hydraulic valves, pumps, blocks, cylinders and power units in Ahmedabad and Bangalore. It caters to the machine tools, food and packaging, plastic processing, pulp and paper, printing technology,mining, metallurgy, naval technology, textiles, solar, wind energy sectors among others.

In India, Bosch is represented by its subsidiary companies, Motor Industries Company Limited, Robert Bosch India Limited,Bosch Rexroth India Limited, and Bosch Chassis System India Limited. Robert Bosch India has developed the front and rear drum brakes, the starter and alternator and even the value motronic fuel injection system for the world's cheapest car, the Tata Nano.

The autocomponent maker has taken land at the vendor park inside the Tata Nano plant in Sanand and has also commenced work on the project. Bosch will commission a brake assembly facility at Sanand, while the fuel injection system will be manufactured in Bangalore. The Tata Nano, that relocated from Singur in West Bengal following protests from give-us-our-land-back agitationists led by the Trinamool Congress, is all set to start commercial production at the Sanand site by next month.