Q.Maruti Suzuki Temporarily Halts Production At Manesar, Gurgaon Plants

[USER="6"]Roshun[/USER], Maruti said that the waiting period for the Brezza will only go up by a day or two. Not sure how far this claim is true. But today they have announced that they will resume production from its Gurgaon plant from the second half of today (June 1). Also, operations such as casting and manufacturing of transmissions will also resume at its plant in Manesar plant from today. Two-wheeler production, the company said, remained unaffected due to the fire at the Subros plant in Manesar. Eye witnesses said the fire was caused when a couple of LPG cylinders exploded. A portion of the building collapsed later. Thankfully, no casualties were reported after the incident.

This is quite a set back for Maruti. It already is not able to cope with the demand for the Vitara Brezza and the Maruti Baleno, both of which have waiting periods of more than six months on average. The Brezza top-end ZDI and ZDI+ variants in fact, have a waiting period of nine months. Sanden Vikas and Subros are the main air-conditioning unit suppliers to OEMs in India. Subros has a tie up with Denso - one of the world's leading car airconditioner suppliers (most cars in India run on this Denso system). If Subros can't bring their production back on track within the next few days, it's going to have repercussions across brands, not just Maruti, which is Subros' largest customer. Mahindra and Tata I think use Sanden Vikas ACs for some of their models, although they also buy from Subros for others. Not sure which models from these companies would be affected.

[SIZE=14px][I]Autocar India[/I] has reported that a large fire at air-conditioning kit supplier Subros Ltd’s Manesar plant due to short circuit on May 29th has led to Maruti Suzuki having to temporarily suspend production at its Manesar and Gurgaon plants. Production is only likely to return once the Subros supply chain returns to normalcy.[/SIZE] [SIZE=14px][ATTACH=CONFIG]n11290[/ATTACH][/SIZE] [SIZE=14px]Subros Ltd is the leading manufacturer of thermal products for automotive applications in India. It has two manufacturing facilities in collaboration with Denso at Noida and one each at Manesar, Pune, Chennai and Sanand - all of them are major automotive manufacturing hubs in the country.[/SIZE] [SIZE=14px]The company has an annual capacity of 1.5 million AC kits per annum of which 50 per cent are supplied to Maruti Suzuki.[/SIZE] [SIZE=14px]In a statement, Maruti Suzuki said, [QUOTE]“Owing to an unfortunate incident of a fire at the Manesar facilities of our supplier, M/s Subros Limited, on Sunday (May 29), supplies of components from that plant have been disrupted. As a consequence, Maruti Suzuki India will have to temporarily suspend manufacture of cars at its facilities in Manesar and Gurgaon, starting second half Monday (May 30). Subros Ltd and Maruti Suzuki are jointly assessing the extent of damage to essential equipment. We are also examining the options available to start supply of components from other facilities. Production will resume as soon as components become available.”[/QUOTE][/SIZE] [SIZE=14px]Subros also supplies AC units to Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, Force Motors, Daimler India Commercial Vehicles, Renault-Nissan and Ashok Leyland. With the production coming to a halt, the waiting period for Maruti’s popular models like the [URL="http://www.zigwheels.com/forum/posts/3464-maruti-baleno-road-test-and-review-surprise-package"]Baleno[/URL] and [URL="http://www.zigwheels.com/forum/posts/8793-maruti-suzuki-vitara-brezza-vs-ford-ecosport-detailed-comparison"]Vitara Brezza [/URL]are likely to go up further. The Vitara Brezza already has a long waiting period of close to 8 months currently.[/SIZE]