Ashok Leyland plans new assembly plants in CIS and Africa
By Jim Gibbins - 1st May 2019
Chennai – Ashok Leyland Ltd of Chennai, a manufacturer of commercial vehicles has announced plans it is planning to establish a number of additional CKD assembly plants in countries within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)1 region and Africa. These are for assembling a full range of commercial vehicles in order to increase its annual export volumes.
Dheeraj Hinduja, chairman of Ashok Leyland commenting on this announcement, said: “In some markets where volumes are promising we can also put some assembly plants. But these would be established in a very cost-effective manner, rather putting up large manufacturing facilities.We have identified some of the countries where we would like to set up such units. In Africa, we have looked at Kenya and Ivory Coast. Both of these countries are quite significant. We are considering some of the CIS countries as well.”
