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Automobile shaper Ford, connected Friday (October 31, 2025), confirmed plans to revive manufacturing operations astatine its Chennai plant, with a absorption connected producing all-new, next-generation engines.
With an archetypal concern of ₹3,250 crore, the project, involving powertrain manufacturing, is expected to make much than 600 jobs, the institution said successful a release.
Ford, which halted operations astatine its Maraimalai Nagar manufacturing facility successful Chennai successful 2021, expressed involvement to restart accumulation successful Tamil Nadu successful September 2024, during Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s sojourn to the United States, by submitting a Letter of Intent (LOI) to the State government.
The merchandise stated that gathering connected the LOI, representatives from Ford and the Tamil Nadu authorities signed a memorandum of knowing (MoU), “outlining the strategical absorption that leverages India’s manufacturing expertise arsenic portion of the Ford+ plan.”
The task volition statesman aboriginal this year, aft which the Chennai works volition person a planned capableness of 235,000 engines annually, with accumulation expected successful 2029.
“We are pleased to beforehand our plans and corroborate the Chennai plant’s captious relation successful Ford’s manufacturing network,” said Jeff Marentic, president, International Markets Group, Ford Motor Company. “We are thankful to the authorities of Tamil Nadu for its continued enactment arsenic we beforehand these plans. This determination reinforces our committedness to leveraging India’s manufacturing prowess for aboriginal products.”
Tamil Nadu Minister for Industries T.R.B. Rajaa said Ford’s determination to commence manufacturing successful Chennai volition further energise the resurgent automotive assemblage of Tamil Nadu. “[It] speaks volumes astir the State’s robust manufacturing ecosystem, highly skilled workforce, and fantabulous capitalist facilitation nether the enactment of our Chief Minister M.K. Stalin,” helium said.
“This is not conscionable the commencement of manufacturing astatine the existing Ford facility, it is the State taking yet different measurement towards the aboriginal of the automotive manufacture with the accumulation of next-gen engines. We stay committed to supporting Ford’s operations here,” helium added.
