Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: Toyota Kirloskar Motor has initiated a third shift at its Karnataka-based plant to enhance production capacity by around 30 per cent, as it looks to cut down waiting periods on some of its popular models like Innova Crysta and Fortuner.
The automaker has commenced a third shift from the first week of May in its Plant 1 in Bidadi on the outskirts of Bengaluru to ramp up the manufacturing capacity.
The company has invested over Rs 90 crore to upgrade the existing infrastructure at the facility and added around 1,500 workforce for the third shift at the plant.
The third shift would allow the plant to produce 30 per cent more, as compared to what it is producing right now, TKM Senior Vice President and Chief Communication Officer Sudeep S Dalvi said on May 17.
He noted that the company took a shutdown of around a week at the plant to modify certain areas to enable the third shift.
