Ashok Leyland has inaugurated its new, modern, technologically world-class manufacturing facility at Pantnagar recently. The plant will be the company`s largest and combines the latest manufacturing technologies with best in class industrial architecture bound together in an ecologically sensitive environment, the company says.
It will eventually augment Ashok Leyland"s present installed capacity of 100,000 vehicles by another 75,000. Speaking at the occasion, Ashok Leyland managing director R. Seshasayee said, ``With the opening of this new plant, Ashok Leyland`s centre of gravity will shift from South to North India. We will further consolidate our North India base when we will transform the Alwar bus body making unit into an integrated bus manufacturing plant in the next 3-4 years.``