It is reported that country's largest car producer Maruti Suzuki plans to scale up its production by at least 70,000 units in this year to meet the production demand.

Mr I V Rao managing executive officer (Engineering) said that Maruti Suziki's "We are trying to eliminate wasteful operations in our manufacturing plants and increase productivity levels of employees. We aim to produce at least 70,000 cars with all these measures.”

He added that the capacity expansion in company's Manesar plant by another 2, 50,000 will be completed by 2012.

Mr Rao who agreed that there is a long waiting list for some of the hot selling brands like Swift and Swift Dzire. According to industry reports the car market will witness 10% to 12% growth in this fiscal.

Going by that, he said that Maruti Suzuki which has crossed one million car production mark last year will have to produce at least 100,000 additional units in this year to meet the demand.

Presently, the plants are working with more than the 100% capacity utilization. Maruti's two plants in Gurgaon and Manesar together have an installed capacity of 800,000 cars. According to Rao, Maruti exported 140,000 cars to other countries mainly in Europe. He was hopeful of maintaining the same figure this year also.

(Sourced from Business Standard)