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Built for 30,000, Running at 6,000: Godrej's New Forklift Plant is Waiting for India to Catch Up

The 63-year-old business has moved almost all production to a new plant and is already engineering sodium-ion batteries and driverless trucks for what comes next.

08 Sep 2026 | 15043 Views | By Shahkar Abidi

Godrej Material Handling, a part of Godrej Enterprises Group, has almost completed relocating its material handling equipment manufacturing from its historic Vikhroli campus in Mumbai to a new greenfield plant in Khalapur, about 70 km from Mumbai. The company invested approximately Rs 350 crore in a facility designed to increase ...

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