New OPmobility Plant Opens at Kharkhoda in Haryana to Supply Maruti Suzuki

French automotive supplier OPmobility has opened a new manufacturing plant at Kharkhoda in Haryana, strengthening the state’s fast-growing automotive hub and its long-running partnership with Maruti Suzuki. The plant was inaugurated on October 29 by OPmobility together with Maruti Suzuki India and Suzuki Motor Corporation. It is the sixth plant OPmobility has opened in India and the second plant in northern India operated by the joint venture between OPmobility, Maruti Suzuki and Suzuki Motor Corporation. The Kharkhoda facility is dedicated to producing full energy systems, including fuel tanks for vehicles. Its annual production capacity is expected to reach one million fuel tanks by 2031, and the plant is set to support Maruti Suzuki’s growth in northern India from a location at the heart of one of the region’s major automotive clusters. OPmobility has been operating in India since 2007 and currently runs six manufacturing plants and four research and development centres in the country. The company has said the new plant marks a further milestone in its Indian growth and forms part of its ambition to double its revenue in India by 2030. Company chief executive Felicie Burelle said the Kharkhoda facility would expand OPmobility’s manufacturing presence in India and support its partnership with Maruti Suzuki, India’s largest vehicle manufacturer and its leading vehicle exporter. Kharkhoda, in Sonipat district, has emerged as a major automotive manufacturing hub in recent years, with Maruti Suzuki’s own large vehicle manufacturing facility in the area. The arrival of a dedicated supplier plant for energy storage systems adds depth to that cluster, linking component manufacturing more closely with vehicle assembly in the same region. For Haryana, the plant is a further sign of manufacturing investment flowing into the state’s industrial corridors. Supplier plants of this kind bring skilled and semi-skilled work, demand for local services and logistics, and closer ties between global component makers and India’s biggest car maker. The plant will initially serve Maruti Suzuki’s northern India operations, with capacity building toward the one-million-unit annual target by 2031 as demand grows.