ET reported that the alliance plant of Renault-Nissan automotive manufacturing facility in Oragadam, near Chennai has crossed a milestone achievement of rolling out 100,000 units.

Nissan and Renault signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tamil Nadu state government to set up a greenfield plant in 2008 with a combined investment of INR 4500 crore. The plant now employs 4000 persons.

Mr Kou Kimura CEO and MD of Renault Nissan Automotive India said that "We started production in May last year. Between then and now we have rolled out one lakh cars from the Oragadam facility. The plant has achieved this milestone in 13 months. This is the fastest roll out of 100,000 cars in India.

The facility only of its kind which makes vehicles for both Nissan and Renault makes Nissan Micra a hatchback and assembles Renault's Fluence a sedan.

Mr Kimura said that “Work on the third shift began a couple of weeks ago. At current levels we can make 200,000 cars a year, which we will double and work for which will start sooner as we will reach saturation levels of our existing capacity,"

(Sourced from ET)