NORD DRIVESYSTEMS expands facility in Pune to cater to the growing demand of large gearboxes and Industrial Gearbox Units
Nord Drivesystems announced the expansion of its current facility at Hinjewadi, Pune on 21st November 2019. The inauguration was done at the hands of Shri Vikram Kumar (IAS) Metropolitan Commissioner, PMRDA. Also present at the occasion were Ms. Jutta Humbert, Managing Partner, NORD DRIVESYSTEMS Group, Mr. P L Muthusekkar, MD, NORD DRIVESYSTEMS, Pvt. Ltd amongst other dignitaries.
As of today NORD DRIVESYSTEMS India’s manufacturing facility has an installed capacity of 42000 Geared motors per annum plus a 22000 Electrical Motor Assembly with a utilization factor between 75 to 80%. These requirements are served through two of our NORD production plans, one in Hinjewadi MIDC Phase II started in Nov 2007 and the second facility in Hinjewadi MIDC phase I which was established in the year Oct 2017. Considering the consistently growing Indian market and NORD India consolidating its presence further, the Management has taken a decision to further increase its production capacity especially for the Large gearboxes & IGU. (Industrial Gearbox Units)
The newly acquired plant expansion is just adjacent to our existing NORD DRIVESYSTEMS plant with a connecting road in between. It is spread on an area measuring 7211sq.mtrs whilst the building area is 3213sq.mtrs.
This will be NORD India’s third facility in row. NORD India plans to use this new available space for the production of the large gearbox assemblies whose demand is continuously increasing in the domestic market. It will also accommodate a bigger warehouse to support the proposed large gearbox production, making way for more production space in the existing building for medium size geared motors.
Last year NORD India Motor production facility had also got approved by BIS, Quality governing body under Govt. of India for ISI marked Motor production which recently has being enhanced further to include all Motor ranges up to 55KW ratings.
Further with time, NORD India plans to include new Gearbox variants into its production portfolio like Industrial Gearbox Units (IGU) production along with specialized paint shop facility. With full commissioning of this new facility, NORD India would be covering almost 90% of the offered NORD catalogue products locally from Pune for the Domestic market as well as SAARC countries.
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With approximately 4000 employees worldwide, NORD develops produces and a market drive technology and is one of the industry’s leading international suppliers of all-in-one solutions. In addition to standard drives, NORD supplies application-specific concepts and solutions, including concepts and solutions that fulfil special requirements such as energy-saving drives and explosion-proof systems. Founded in 1965, NORD presently has 36 subsidiaries worldwide.
Incorporated in the year 2005, NORD Drivesystems Pvt Ltd is the100% subsidiary of Getriebebau NORD in Germany. We have a full-fledged assembly unit in Hinjewadi, Pune with production capacity of 42000 units per year. All the parts are imported from our manufacturing units globally.
We have a strong dealer network across the India & SAARC Countries. We cater to almost all sectors such as material handling, steel, chemical, Pharmacy and, food and beverages, water treatment, pumps, cement, power, solar, airport, Intralogistics & road construction and many more industry.
