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Bajaj Auto, Two Wheeler major is looking at expanding its Chakan plant capacity to raise its market share.
Bajaj currently manufacture motorcycles at three locations - Waluj plant makes the Platina, Discover and Boxer for export, Pantnagar plant manufactures the Platina and Discover while the Chakan plantNS, AS and RS series pulsars besides the existing 135cc, 150cc, 180cc and 220cc pulsars.
The new AS and RS series has begun to add the demand that Bajaj is once again seeing, and so there has been an 8 per cent rise in month-on-month sales since January this year.
The newly launched RS 200 has in fact seen a very strong market demand, resulting in a supply crunch.
On supply crunch regarding the new RS 200 Eric Vas, president of Bajaj Auto's Motorcycle division said:
News Source: Bajaj Auto Plans Capacity Expansion as Pulsar Demand Regains Strength - NDTVProfit.com
Bajaj currently manufacture motorcycles at three locations - Waluj plant makes the Platina, Discover and Boxer for export, Pantnagar plant manufactures the Platina and Discover while the Chakan plantNS, AS and RS series pulsars besides the existing 135cc, 150cc, 180cc and 220cc pulsars.
The new AS and RS series has begun to add the demand that Bajaj is once again seeing, and so there has been an 8 per cent rise in month-on-month sales since January this year.
The newly launched RS 200 has in fact seen a very strong market demand, resulting in a supply crunch.
On supply crunch regarding the new RS 200 Eric Vas, president of Bajaj Auto's Motorcycle division said:
"Certainly, we do have a slight capacity constraint on the race sport currently, we have customers who have been waiting for 45 days for that product and fortunately it is not something unmanageable. We are fairly competent at expanding capacity so we will hike capacity as the market goes along. Maybe it will take us a month, a month and a half to ramp up capacities a little bit, more because constraints at vendors rather than our end."
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