Beru Diesel Start Systems, a joint venture between Jayant group and Beru-Germany, has set up a new manufacturing plant in Talegaon, Pune. This facility was recently inaugurated by Dr Thomas Waldhier President, BorgWarner Beru Systems last week in the presence of its various customers and senior management of the company.

This greenfield facility is set up to manufacture cold starting systems like glow plugs, grid heaters, glow plug controllers , electronic parts and allied system components and use this facility as a base to bring in advanced Beru product range in ignition technologies, automotive electronics and sensor technologies as well as ignition products for the heat industry.

Beru has had a manufacturing footprint in India since 1996 with a manufacturing plant for glow plugs in Pune. This has now also moved and merged with the new Talegaon plant. This new facility resulted due to the increasing demand of the Beru products and the company's strategy to create India as a strategic business entity in the Asia- Pacific region.

With this facility Beru has increased its capacity to 5 Million glow plugs from the existing 1 million glow plugs. The company has invested Rs. 30 crore into this plant - set up over 80000 sq ft of area in the Talegaon MIDC.

The new plant is inaugurated at a time when the diesel Segment is booming and India is moving towards stringent emission norms. Beru says its products can play a significant role in reducing white smoke through better cold-starting. Beru supplies its products to the passenger car, commercial vehicle, off-highway and industrial segments in India. Tata, Mahindra & Mahindra, Ford, Ashok Leyland, Fiat as some of its key current customers.Global players like Renault- Nissan, GM, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen joins the client list with the new facility.

This new facility will be also used to launch new products like spark plugs , connectors , ignition coils, sensors in the Indian Market. Beru is the world leader in glow plugs and is present with almost all major OEMs globally.