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Ride Control products. These facili-
ties provide value added services to
all customers in areas of noise meas-
urement, value engineering improv-
ing product quality by root cause
analysis of customer complaints as
well as cost reduction through local-
ization efforts. These R&D centres
also provide customers with a facil-
ity to conduct ride tuning exercise
on site through custom built mobile
ride tuning vans.
This apart, Gabriel is setting up
a new Tech Centre for 2 Wheeler
product developments at its Ho-
sur plant. This facility, expected to
be ready in 2013, would
have unique and futur-
istic facilities for prod-
uct design & validation.
Gabriel is also setting up a
ride evaluation facility for
customer vehicle evalu-
ation. This is would be
over and above the onsite
ride and handling facil-
ity already available with
Gabriel. Says Mr. Manoj
Kolhatkar, Gabriel would
continue to invest a part of
its sales in R&D and prod-
uct development year on
year as part of its strategy and way
forward.
Gabriel way forward is on focus-
ing and building sustainable manu-
facturing process through reduced
carbon foot print and bringing in
green technology in all its manu-
facturing locations. Gabriel’s manu-
facturing footprint enables timely
deliveries to customers while op-
component zone