BANGALORE, India-The Bosch Group has opened a plant in Bangalore to build common-rail, high-pressure pumps for diesel engines, part of what the company is describing as a comprehensive, long-term expansion into India.
The new plant, which cost approximately $125 million, is capable of producing up to 1,000 pumps per day. In all, Bosch, which has been manufacturing injector components for diesel systems at a plant in Nashik, India, since late 2005, plans to invest up to $408 million in the country by 2008.