- US$25 million facility aims to become global centre of excellence for small car engineering
(Oct. 29, 2009 – Hyderabad, India) Hyundai Motor Company opened a new research and development center at Hyderabad in India, the company’s fourth overseas R&D center.
Set up with a US$ 25 million investment and located in the HITECH City of Hyderabad, the new 200,000 square-foot facility, Hyundai Motor India Engineering Pvt. Ltd (HMIE), will further accelerate local content development and enable Hyundai to respond even more quickly to changing customer needs across the world.
The new facility, which was completed in April after 25 months of construction, will serve as an important platform for the development of sub-compact cars in order to meet surging demand. Located about 800 km northwest of Hyundai Motor India’s Chennai production plant, it will further facilitate the development of India as Hyundai’s global hub for manufacturing and engineering of small cars.
This newly created R&D center will also support all back-end operations like computer aided engineering (CAE), computer aided design (CAD) and help the R & D work taking place across Hyundai’s car lineup. In addition, it will provide vehicle development including styling, engineering design and vehicle test & evaluation for cars manufactured in India to satisfy the specific needs of the Indian customers. This state-of-the-art center currently employs about 300 engineers and Hyundai plans to gradually increase this number, strengthening its operations.
Hyundai’s other overseas R&D centers are located in the United States, Germany and Japan.
