Articles tagged under: Ford

Tata acquires the manufacturing plant of Ford in Sanand

January 11, 2023
Tata acquires the manufacturing plant of Ford in Sanand

Gandhinagar: Tata Passenger Electric Mobility Limited (TPEML), a subsidiary of Tata Motors Limited, completed the acquisition of Ford India's manufacturing plant in Sanand on Tuesday. In August last year, the company announced that it would acquire Ford India Pvt. Ltd.'s Sanand plant in Gujarat for Rs 725.7 crore. Tata Motors, in a regulatory filing, said that with the fulfilment of all the necessary conditions, the parties have completed the transaction, and TPEML has acquired the Sanand ...Read More

Tata Motors signs Definitive Agreement for acquisition of Ford India’s Sanand plant in Gujarat

August 08, 2022
Tata Motors signs Definitive Agreement for  acquisition of Ford India’s Sanand plant in Gujarat

Mumbai: Tata Passenger Electric Mobility Limited (TPEML), a subsidiary of Tata Motors Ltd, and Ford India Private Limited (FIPL), have today signed a Unit Transfer Agreement (UTA) for the acquisition of FIPL’s manufacturing plant situated at Sanand, Gujarat, which inter-alia includes: (i) entire land & buildings; (ii) Vehicle Manufacturing Plant along with machinery and equipment situated therein; and (iii) transfer of all eligible employees of FIPL’s vehicle manufacturing operations at Sana...Read More

Tata Motors to acquire Ford India’s Sanand plant along with staff to make electric vehicles; Tripartite MoU signed

May 30, 2022
Tata Motors to acquire Ford India’s Sanand plant along with staff to make electric vehicles; Tripartite MoU signed

Gandhinagar: A tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed today here in the presence of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel between the State government, Tata Motors' subsidiary Tata Passenger Electric Mobility Limited and Ford India Private Limited. As per the MoU, Tata Motors Ltd will acquire all land, buildings, plant machineries and the vehicle assembly unit of Ford India Pvt Ltd at Sanand. Tata Motors will also accommodate all staffers of vehicle assembly plant of Ford Indi...Read More

Ford India to shut vehicle manufacturing at Sanand and Chennai plants

September 09, 2021
Ford India to shut vehicle manufacturing at Sanand and Chennai plants

Gandhinagar: U.S. headquartered car manufacturer Ford India today made announcement to wind up its vehicle manufacturing operations at Sanand plant in Gujarat and Chennai plant in Tamil Nadu. Ford India said, the company will progressively wind-down manufacturing for export at Sanand plant by quarter four of year 2021 and Chennai engine/vehicle assembly plants by quarter 2 of year 2022. The company said it will continue engine manufacturing for export. 'The sale of our current produc...Read More

Ford transfers ownership of its Sanand and Chennai plants to Mahindra

October 01, 2019
Ford transfers ownership of its Sanand and Chennai plants to Mahindra

Automakers Ford Motor Company and Mahindra & Mahindra have signed a new agreement to create a joint venture that will develop, market and distribute Ford vehicles in India. The announcement confirms that the joint venture will see Ford transfer ownership of its Sanand and Chennai facilities to Mahindra under the new JV. Mahindra owns a 51 per cent controlling stake in the new joint venture and the remaining 49 per cent owned by Ford. While the companies will co-develop products going for...Read More

Sanand built first lot of Ford Figo cars dispatched for export from Pipavav port

August 27, 2015

Ahmedabad     Ford Motors India dispatched the first lot of its around 1300 Ford FIGO cars, built at its Sanand plant in Gujarat, for exports through the APM Terminals Pipavav (Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd) and NYK Auto Logistics (India) roll on/roll off (RORO) operations that commenced at Pipavav Port today.       The first RORO vessel (ship), m.v.Grand Dahlia, berthed at Pipavav yesterday loaded the vehicles while the officials from APM Terminals, NYK Aut...Read More

India to become world’s third largest auto manufacturer by 2020: Ford

March 29, 2015

Coimbatore India's automotive industry is expected to reach 7 million vehicles milestone by 2020, making the country the third-largest auto manufacturer in the world, behind the US and China, a top official at Ford Motor has said. The automotive sector has a direct bearing on the economy with a near 7 per cent contribution to the GDP, playing an important role in the development of other crucial sectors as well, David Dubensky, President and Managing Director, Ford Motor Private Ltd, said ...Read More

Ford India commissions car manufacturing plant at Sanand in Gujarat

March 26, 2015
Ford India commissions car manufacturing plant at Sanand in Gujarat

Ahmedabad Car manufacturing plant of Ford India was inaugurated at North Kotpura in Sanand near Ahmedabad today by state Chief Minister. Speaking at the inauguration function, Global CEO of Ford Motors Mr. Mark Fields said, "With More than 1 billion USD of investment Sanand will double our annual capacity in India to 610,000 engines and 440,000 vehicles." He added that the Operation in Sanand will be able to produce 240,000 vehicles and 270,000 engines. He said the plant will c...Read More

Inauguration of Ford India’s Sanand plant this month

March 05, 2015

Ahmedabad A new car manufacturing plant of Ford near Sanand in Gujarat will be operational this month according to sources. Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel will inaugurate the plant in presence of US consulate on 26 March, sources added. The company is likely to produce New Ford Figo twins in this plant. Reports suggest the one car will be a Ford Figo hatchback and another will be a sub-4 metre sedan (unveiled as Ford Ka and Ka+ in Brazil) that is touted to replace the Ford Clas...Read More

Ford plant in Sanand likely to be operational by April

February 06, 2015

US Secretary of State at Ford plant in Sanand last month Ahmedabad According to reports, Ford's new car manufacturing plant in Gujarat's Sanand will be operational by April. The company is likely to produce New Ford Figo twins in this plant in next few months. Reports suggest the one car will be a hatchback and another will be a sedan. Ford Figo compact sedan will be launched in July, while hatchback model will set foot in the market in September. The upcoming F...Read More