On 22 November 2009, Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat has inaugurated Apollo Tyres' manufacturing facility for extra-large off-the-road (OTR) tyres at its Limda plant in Gujarat.

The company has invested Rs 200 crore for the new OTR facility where ultra large tyres weighing more than a 1,000 kg and over eight feet in height, are produced. This facility has come up as part of the tripartite agreement that Apollo had signed with Bharat Earth Movers and Coal India. The company is producing these ultra large OTR tyres through a PPP with BEML.

Recently, the company has augmented its passenger radial production capacity from 90,000 tyres a month to 4.50 lakh tyres at its Limda plant. At Limda, the company has production capacity of 20,000 passenger radials per day whereas the pilot project for truck radials has capacity of only 400 tyres per day.

Meanwhile, the company's upcoming greenfield facility at Chennai in Tamil Nadu is likely to commence operations in December 2009. The proposed facility is likely to help Apollo produce 6,000 truck radials and 8,000 passenger radials per day.

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Apollo Tyres to augment capacity (12-Nov-09)