Indian multi-crop harvesters will now be exported from the new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility near Chandigarh belonging to CLAAS India Limited, a 100% subsidiary of the German based CLAAS group.
Customers, sales partners, officials from India and overseas witnessed the flagoff of the first combine harvester to Sudan from the new facility in the inaugration ceremony.
They also got a first-hand impression of the technically advanced combine harvester factory and of the multi-crop harvesting abilities of the crop tiger machines during a field demonstration.
Jan-Hendrik Mohr, member of the group executive board and responsible for the worldwide production of combine harvesters stated: ?CLAAS quality standards are equally high in all the 14 manufacturing facilities worldwide. Whether our harvester is ?made in Germany? or ?made in India?, our benchmark of quality is the same ?made by CLAAS?.
Equipped with the latest paint shop, manufacturing and fabrication technology as well as fully integrated process and quality control, the factory has the capacity to produce 900 combines annually.
Depending upon the market demand, this can be increased to more than 1,200 units in phase two.
According to Lothar Kriszun, member of the group executive board and responsible for global sales, this gives CLAAS the possibility not only to serve the increasing demand of the Indian market, but also to meet the requirements of Asian and African countries like South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Iran, Sudan, Tanzania, Republic South Africa etc, he informed
?Now, with our two manufacturing facilities in India and the locational advantage in terms of proximity to Asian and African markets, we are expecting to leverage exports in these markets even further?, Pradeep K Malik president & managing director of CLAAS India Ltd said.