Riding on the comfort of the country’s infrastructure development, Tata Hitachi—the JV between Tata Motors and Hitachi Construction Machinery—is looking at a 10 per cent share in the backhoe loader market.
“The main demand for the equipment is driven by road development followed by agriculture, irrigation purpose and mining. The market for construction equipments are erratic and it depends on the government investments. Right now, the market is progressing at a fast pace, thanks to the investments made by the Centre and state governments for infrastructure purpose,” Sandeep Singh, Managing Director, Tata Hitachi said.
Speaking to
Singh said that there was shortage of manpower and that Tata Hitachi has undertaken several initiatives to provide training to technicians through tie-ups with many ITIs in the country.
The company has three manufacturing facilities at Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, Dharwad in Karntaka and Kharagpur in West Bengal.