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Exide Industries, a leading automotive battery
maker, plans to set up a plant and
expand capacities of its existing units at an
investment of Rs.350 crore during 2010-11.
India's largest battery
maker in terms of
capacity, Exide will
build batteries for
two-wheelers at a
new facility in
A h m e d n a g a r ,
Maharashtra, which
is capable of producing 7 million units per
year. The company produces close to 10 million
two-wheeler batteries annually at its
plants near Pune and Bawal in Haryana. The
Ahmednagar plant is likely to start production
by June-July this year. After commercial production
begins, the installed capacity of twowheeler
batteries will be close to 17 million
units per year.
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