Pune

The Pune facility of Tata Motors is located in the Pimpri-Chinchwad industrial belt of Maharashtra. The state-of-the art R&D centre in this facility sets the benchmark for automotive research and development in India. The Pune facility also houses some of the best manufacturing facilities in the automotive industry; for example, its Product Engineering Division has one of the biggest and the most versatile tool-making divisions in the country.

The most versatile of Tata Motors' manufacturing plants, the Pune facility is a full range supplier of both commercial and passenger vehicles. It boasts of delivering more value per vehicle, since it is a highly vertically integrated plant as regards to core processes such as engines, gear box, paint shop, etc.

The facility's commercial vehicles plant produces around 60 base models with three or four variants each. Six assembly lines cope with the diverse range of vehicles that roll out of the plant, like HMCV, ILCV trucks, ICV bus chassis, ICV Ultra range trucks and bus chassis, UVs, pickups, Winger vans, SUVs, etc. It can produce 730 vehicles per day, working in two shifts. Tata Motors' range of Defence vehicles are also produced here.

The ERC is equipped with state-of-the-art testing facilities like:

  • Outdoor testing
  • Indoor testing (testing of individual components, sub-assemblies, various vehicle systems like wipers, door locks, window winding, etc.)
  • Materials lab
  • Homologation and product evaluation
  • Noise, vibration and harshness
  • Advanced engineering (hybrids, EVs, etc.)
  • Electronics
  • Crash testing
  • Environmental science and IPR
  • Climate control
  • Engine development and testing
  • Prototyping
  • Styling studio
  • Vehicle integration teams

Tata Motors' passenger vehicles plant in Pune is one of the most advanced manufacturing facilities in India. With two flexible assembly lines, the plant has a capacity of producing 1,000 cars per day, working on a double shift. The facility has introduced many popular models like Indica, Indigo, Marina, Vista Manza, Zest, Bolt, and Nexon.

Fact File

  • Commercial vehicles plant started in 1964
  • Passenger vehicles plant started in 1998
  • Sprawls over an area of 930 acres
  • Asia's first anechoic chamber
  • India's biggest engine development facility
  • India's first full vehicle crash test facility
  • India's only full climate test facility
  • India's only pedestrian test facility
  • Facilities include world-class press shop technology, state-of-the-art CED painting facility, robotic flexible welding cell, conveyor-ised vehicle assembly lines, steering robots, BUZZ testing, full environment testing, and suspension parameter measuring machine
  • Over 11,000 permanent employees

Milestones

  • The first commercial vehicle that rolled out from Pune plant was in 1977
  • The first passenger vehicle that rolled out from Pune plant was in 1998 (Indica)