Indus Motors Company unveils new investment plan
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MURREE: Indus Motor Company Limited (IMC), a country’s leading automaker unveiled four billion rupees investment plan to expand its annual production capacity by 200,000 units in a bid to capitalise on the growing consumer demand.
Currently, IMC holds an annual production capacity of 54,800 units, which are sold under the brand name of Toyota. The planned capacity enhancement would bring the production to 75,000 vehicles a year.
“Pakistan’s auto industry future looks very promising,” IMC Chief Executive Officer Ali Asghar Jamali told media at its third auto workshop.
“I am hopeful that Pakistan will be producing 500,000 cars per year by 2022,” Jamali said.
The demand for local as well as used cars has exponentially been growing for the last three years due to overall improvement in the macroeconomic activities.
Despite being a world’s biggest densely-populated country, Pakistan has, however, not seen rapid motorisation. The country has only 16 cars per 1,000 people. By 2020 the ratio is likely to reach 20 cars per 1,000.
Industry experts are expecting a fast growth in car sales due to growing and young middle-class in the country.
The experts said the country is the third largest growing economy in emerging market and it could benefit from the ongoing $57 billion worth of China-Pak Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects.
IMC recorded five percent drop in sales during the July-February period of 2016/17, but in light commercial vehicle -- vans and jeeps – sales of Toyota Fortuner increased to 568 during the period from 368 units in the corresponding period.
