Introduction

Ashok Leyland has been one of India s premier commercial vehicle manufacturers over the last five decades. So far, it has put 375,000 vehicles on Indian roads. In 1948, industrialist Raghunandan Saran set up Ashok Motors in what was then Madras, for the assembly of Austin cars. In 1955, British Leyland picked up an equity stake and the company s name was changed to Ashok Leyland. The same year, Ashok Leyland manufacturing commercial vehicles. In 1987, the Hinduja Group and Iveco, the commercial vehicles arm of Fiat of Italy, gained a controlling interest in Ashok Leyland.

Ashok Leyland reached a major milestone in 1993 when it became the first Indian automobile company to win the ISO 9002 certification. The more comprehensive ISO 9001 certification came in 1994 and QS 9000 in 1998. All the Ashok Leyland vehicle manufacturing units received the ISO 14001 certification in 2002.

Business

The company s product range includes:

•  Eighteen to 82-seater single and double decker buses
• Vestibule buses
• Haulage vehicles in capacities ranging from 7.5 to 49 tonnes
•  Diesel engines for industrial, marine and genset applications

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Partnership

Ashok Leyland has technological collaborations with Hino Motors and the ZF Group.

Location

Ashok Leyland has six manufacturing plants spread over 450,000 sq mtrs. The mother plant is located at Ennore near Chennai. Two plants and a press shop  have been set up at Hosur. The assembly plants are at Alwar and Bhandara and the castings plant at Hyderabad.

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