The world's leading provider of transmission and power transmission company GKN (GKNDriveline) today announced that the company planned in Pune, India (Pune) broke ground on the new plant has for future local production of constant velocity joint Day System (CVJSystems) and the drive axle solution (TransAxleSolutions) products.

     It is understood that the plant's investment will reach 1.3 billion rupees (U.S. $ 28,600,000), plans to recruit more than 200 employees. The plant is located in the Fiat, Volkswagen, General Motors, Tata and Renault and other car manufacturers (they are GKN transmission customers) within 30 km around the strategic location advantage.

     The plant is expected to be August 2012 to achieve full capacity, constant velocity joint system is expected annual production capacity will reach 60 million sets. In addition, the plant will also produce GKN axle solution (TransAxleSolutions) product line of differential products.

     GKN Lavin, Managing Director of India's drive  (RavindraOjha), said: "In the past five years, the company's business in India the average annual growth rate of 15% or more, and we look forward to keeping it in the Indian market A high growth momentum. "