TAL inaugurates new generic assembly shop in Nagpur

TAL Manufacturing Solutions Ltd., a fully owned subsidiary of Tata Motors, inaugurated a new generic assembly shop at their manufacturing facility located in Mihan SEZ, Nagpur. The new facility was inaugurated by Maharashtra Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping, Nitin Gadkari. Also present at the inauguration was MD & CEO of Tata Motors, Guenter Butschek and TAL Board of Directors.

More than Rs.100 crore has been invested into the project which has a manufacturing area of 96,000 sq. ft. RUAG Aero-structures, a global tier 1 supplier to Airbus gave TAL a USD 150 million contract in 2014 to supply precision machined and sheet metal parts for the Airbus A320 family of aircraft.  The generic facility is a state of the art aerospace manufacturing shop, it supports technologies like fluid cell forming, extrusion stretch wrapping, solution annealing and long bed high speed machining of intricate parts. It also has provisions for assembly but has been built with a primary purpose of meeting the demand arising from the RUAG – TAL contract.

The facility can supply, manufacture and assemble more than 50,000 precision parts every month. Alfons Kaspar, Vice President Supply Chain and Logistics – RUAG Aero-structures, said, “We treat the inauguration of this new facility as the first step in our realisation of making TAL a part of our strategic supply base. Our challenge is to help TAL ramp-up quickly and stabilize production, so that we can look beyond parts and sub-assemblies into larger and complex assemblies. We are also looking at exploiting the potential and capabilities that TAL has built up in composites, which will complement our offerings and give us an unbeatable value proposition across metallic and composite aero structures”.