Electronic manufacturing services and plastic moulding service provider PG Electroplast (PGEL) is investing Rs 100 crore in two years to expand its existing Ahmednagar plant in Maharashtra.

The expansion will create over 600 jobs locally and enable the company to improve both its capabilities and capacities for manufacturing air-conditioners and other appliances.

Ahmednagar Unit is PGEL's largest campus for manufacturing air-conditioners. The new campus will also house new capabilities of sheet metal and powder coating.

The expansion will give a boost to the existing annual production capacities for both air-conditioners indoor units (IDUs) and outdoor units (ODUs) with the capacity for IDUs increasing from 0.6 million units to over 1.5 million units and the capacity for ODUs for 0.6 million units to over one million units of Air- Conditioner Outdoor Units.