It is learnt from the The Hindu news that the Royal Enfield now has Mr. B. Govindarajan as the new Chief Executive Officer in place of Dr. Venki Padmanabhan who now takes over as the Head of New Initiatives for Eicher Motors (The parent company of which Royal Enfield is a unit now since 1994).
With an initial installed capacity of 1.5 lakh units per
annum by March, 2013, Royal Enfield is now wishing to start its new plant soon at Oragadam, near Chennai. Managing Director Mr Siddhartha
Lal said earlier, “We will completely shift
vehicle production in a phased manner to the new plant. Our plan is to utilise
the old plant for developing and producing engines for the bikes, adding that
engine manufacturing capacity will also be increased to 1.5 lakh units annually
from 70,000 units at present.
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| 57 Year old Royal Enfield Factory at Chennai, India |
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