Hero MotoCorp Limited announced that the company commenced construction of its new plant & global parts centre at Neemrana in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan. The company will invest a total of INR 5,500 million in setting up the fourth manufacturing plant and the GPC. Both the facilities are expected to be operational towards the end of the financial year 2013-14 The Neemrana plant, spread over an area of 47 acres, will provide direct employment to over 1000 people, and have an installed capacity of 750,000 units per annum.

The Global Parts Centre, which is expected to be operational in the third quarter of the next financial year (2013-14), will initially employ 400 personnel. The Global Parts Centre will have automated storage and retrieval system, automated packaging and sorting system, on-line tracking of parts through warehouse management system (WMS), lean manufacturing systems and most importantly, the Green Building Concept.