Royal Enfield has rolled out the first bike from its new manufacturing plant at Oragadam in southern India.
The factory, which sits on 50-acre site and cost £17.8m to develop, will eventually more than double Enfield’s existing output from its smaller original facility at Thiruvottiyur near Chennai. Described by company chief executive Siddhartha Lal (pictured) as “the nucleus of our global ambitions” at its official opening ceremony, Oragadam currently has the capability to produce 150,000 units annually. This will increase to a 175,000-unit capacity for 2014, when Royal Enfield plans to be churning out a total of more than a quarter of a million motorcycles a year — up from 113,000 in 2012.
Siddhartha Lal also used the event to announce Royal Enfield’s biggest-ever “made in India” motorcycle, a 525cc Continental GT model to be built at Oragadam and launched in 2014.
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