Wipro Kawasaki to invest ₹1,000 crore in hydraulic pump manufacturing plant at Harohalli
Wipro Kawasaki Precision Machinery plans to invest ₹1,000 crore in building a new hydraulic pump manufacturing plant in Harohalli, Karnataka. This announcement was made by Large and Medium Industries Minister M.B. Patil after a meeting with a delegation led by Wipro Kawasaki's CEO, Minoru Hatsuda. The proposed facility will occupy 30 acres of land, which the government promises to allocate quickly.
The new plant is projected to begin operations within a year and generate 1,200 jobs. Currently, the company operates a manufacturing unit at Kumbalgodu, where 80,000 hydraulic pumps are produced annually. The expansion would increase annual production capacity to over two lakh pumps.
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