Bosch releases first common rail pump

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Bangalore, June 1: Automotive component major Robert Bosch today released the first batch of common rail high pressure pumps produced in India at its new Rs 550 crore facility here.

Dr Bernd Bohr, Chairman of the Automotive Group of Robert Bosch, told newspersons on the occasion that the company would produce 600,000 pumps by 2010 from the current level of 40,000 and corner 60 per cent of the market with one million diesel vehicles expected to be fitted with such pumps.

He said the Common Rail Pump facility here was part of the Rs 1,800 crore investment Bosch had planned in India between 2005 and 2008. From January this year, the Nasik unit had started exporting Common Rail injector components to Korea. The plant had a capacity of 4,000 injector component sets per day at present and from next year, the complete Common Rail injectors would be produced at Nasik.

Dr Bohr said diesel vehicles were becoming increasingly popular in India and the share of diesel engines in Indian cars was expected to reach 40 per cent by 2010 from the current level of 30 per cent.

''We have designed our new manufacturing facilities so that we can flexibly serve the requirements of automakers, especially the local makers.'' While Hyundai and Mahindra and Mahindra have started using common rail systems, talks with other automakers were on at various stages.

Realising the diesel economy of the common rail system, almost every automaker in India have announced that they would launch diesel cars with this technology.

Dr Bohr said the Bosch Group in India had a consolidated sale of Rs 4,000 crore in 2005 and this year the sale was expected to touch Rs 4,700 crore, a 17 per cent increase. ''India is one of the growth motors for our business in the Asia Pacific,'' he added.

He said the Robert Bosch India software centre here was expected to increase its associate strength to 3,000 by the year-end and it was contributing nearly 30 per cent of the company's software requirement.

UNI

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