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T. Murrali

Chennai, April 1 The UK-based Stadco Automotive will set up a prototype manufacturing facility in India soon.

The company is a Tier-I supplier of automotive body-in-white (shell of the car) products and services.

Prototype is the first fully built unit of the planned model. It is tested for functional aspects of the vehicle and helps the manufacturer to prepare for mass production.

Mr Paul Jaggers, Product Engineering Director, Stadco, told Business Line that the company would finalise the location soon.

A portion of the prototype manufacturing will be done in Chennai, where it recently opened its Product Development Centre. He did not wish to disclose the proposed investments in the facility.

Due to constraints in funding it would initially outsource stamping job – the process with which the desired profile is arrived in a sheet metal. The entire facility will fully be functional in less than two years.

At present, the prototype requirements are largely met by imports from Japan and Korea. Few vehicle manufacturers have in-house facility. It is preferable to outsource as it saves substantial time besides helping to focus on other parameters.

Stadco has 5 production facilities – four in the UK and one in Germany.

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