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India Yamaha Motors establishes its second R&D Centre

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Yamaha Motor Research & Development India announced the establishment of its second R&D Centre in India. The new Centre is located in the premises of India Yamaha Motor’s plant in Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu. The new Centre has been established to ensure optimum utilization of resources at both the locations and focus towards the enhancement of the capability and the capacity.

The Yamaha Motor Research & Development India is the fifth overseas R&D headquarters for Yamaha Motor Group following Italy, Taiwan, China and Thailand. The Centre is intended to increase Yamaha’s manufacturing competitiveness in the country. India R&D would ‘develop’, ‘purchase’ and do ‘cost innovation’. The new R&D Centre has state-of-the-art facilities including prototype testing & validation and a test track with simulation of Indian Road condition.

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An investment of INR 66 crores has been made to set-up the center and it is part of the Rs. 1,500 crore investment that Yamaha has already committed to ‘Make in India’ by 2018. The company’s long-term plan is to develop products which fit the Indian & Global customer requirements, but at the same time, carry the brand DNA of Performance, Innovation, Design, Style and Sportiness.

With the aim of high local development, the company wants to accelerate its engineering and manufacturing at local market quality standards, to support the product competitiveness both within the Indian market and for exports.

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