Ford Rolls out its 100000th Engine in India

Ford India's Maraimalainagar Nagar engine facility rolled out its 100,000th engine this month. The company achieved this milestone was achieved just 14 months after the engine plant opened for operations in January 2010. The plant has the capacity to produce 250,000 engines per year.

Commenting on the achievement, Michael Boneham, president and managing director of Ford India said "We are thrilled and proud to celebrate the 100,000 production milestone in such a short space of time - my congratulations to all plant employees for a job well done! This world-class manufacturing facility reinforces our intent and commitment to compete with great products and powertrains in all segments."

Part of Ford's USD 500-million investment at the Maraimalai Nagar site is designed to meet the growing needs of the Indian vehicle market and export opportunities. The plant is the first Ford facility to feature a flexible production line manufacturing petrol and diesel engines. The plant produces five Duratec petrol engine variants and one Duratorq diesel engine variant for Ford vehicles. The plant has also exported more than one-third of the engines produced to South Africa and Thailand so far.