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February 2012
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The portfolio also comprises com-
plete axle systems and chassis com-
ponents for vehicles of all renowned
commercial vehicle manufacturers
worldwide.
Mr. Piyush Munot, Director, ZF
India, said: “Our commercial vehi-
cle activities are spread all over the
globe, we’ve just grouped them to
focus on market and customers. It is
an internal alignment to focus more
on the customer.”
As a result of the move, products
for special applications have been
moved to the Industrial Technolo-
gies Division which also includes
off-highway applications.
Last year the company’s
total turnover was 15 bil-
lion Euro, of which 20
per cent was from the
Commercial Vehicle
Technology
Divi-
sion. ZF’s strategy
for India is for the
next 2 decades, and
it believes the Indian
market offers a lot
of opportunities. The
company promises to
provide a lot of value in India
and the strategy is to localise the
products and become very competi-
tive.
ZF manufactures truck transmis-
sions at its facility in Pune where
it recently crossed production of
1,000 units. Mr. Mandeep Bhalla,
CEO & Sr. Vice President, ZF In-
dia, said: “Before the plant was in-
augurated, we had 15,000 9-speed
transmissions in the Indian market,
which were imported. We were able
to get enough information about the
product that we needed, and now we
have the product in the market man-
ufactured within the country. We
have produced 5,000 transmissions
and we have had a remarkably low
number of failures in the first sup-
ply, in such a severe market. And,
as the demand increases, we will be
looking to utilise the plant’s full ca-
pacity of 25,000 units.”
ZF supplies 9-speed manual
transmissions to Tata Motors,
Ashok Leyland and AMW,
auto expo 2012
“We were able to get enough in-
formation about the product that
we needed, and now we have the
product in the market manufac-
tured within the country.”
– Mr. Mandeep Bhalla
(on 9-speed transmissions)
ZF Ecolite transmission