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Bangalore, July 21 Bosch would soon be supplying components to Tata Motors for the Euro IV compliant engines that it would be sourcing from Fiat for its passenger cars, Indica and Indigo.

Tata Motors is in the process of introducing the Euro-IV engine platform for its vehicles in the next one year. The company, which is also rolling out its low-priced ‘Nano’ this October, will be sourcing entire fuel injection pumps and D-60 starters from Bosch Ltd and brakes from Robert Bosch Chassis System, Pune, said Mr M. Lakshminarayan, Joint Managing Director, Bosch Ltd.

Bosch would come out with the gasoline injection pump this year, for which trials have been conducted. Production is expected to start in two months. The company expects to start manufacturing the CR diesel injection pumps, specially designed for Tata Nano, by June 2009. The pilot batch would be ready by March 2009.

Bosch would be supplying its D-60 starters to Tata Motors for the low-priced vehicle and its DS-60 starters to Royal Enfield for its ‘Bullet’. The ‘starters’ unit at Naganathapura would have a capacity to produce 1 lakh units per year (combined).

The volume for both depends on the market. “As far as D-60 is concerned, we are ready to start supply as and when Tata Motors wants it,” said company sources. Production for DS-60 starters would start in the next two months, they added.

Bosch is prepared to meet the demand for common rail (CR) pumps — diesel and gasoline injection pumps — that would go into Euro IV and Euro V compliant vehicle engines. The Centre has made it mandatory for vehicle manufacturers to introduce Euro IV compliant engines by April 2010, by when Europe would switch over to Euro V compliant engines. Bosch is ready with the technologies, company officials said during a media tour of the company’s Bangalore and Naganathapura plants.

The company supplies CR diesel injection pumps to Maruti Suzuki — for Swift, and Mahindra & Mahindra for its Scorpio vehicles too. It currently has a capacity to produce 1,000 pumps every day, and plans to increase the same to 2,500 units per day by 2011. It now supplies 60 per cent of its CR diesel injection pumps to Maruti Suzuki and the rest for Mahindra’s Scorpio.

According to sources, there are indications of a requirement of 200 pumps per day from Tata Motors’ project for its Indica and Indigo models. “Investments have been planned to increase our capacity gradually every year to meet future demand,” sources said. Till now, an investment of Rs 60 crore has gone into this unit, and there are plans to infuse another Rs 30 crore in the next three years.

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