Katerra sets up manufacturing unit in Hyderabad

Katerra, a Silicon Valley-based design and technology driven construction company, Wednesday performed the ground breaking ceremony of its first fully integrated off-site manufacturing plant for prefabricated building components and fittingshere. According to a release issued by the firm, the facility is expected to be completed by March 2020 and will deliver eight million square feet of building components every year through robotic assembly line production.

After setting up factory campus at Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu and a movable onsite factory in Lucknow, this will be Katerras second state-of-the-art, automated factory in India. The factory will help bring Katerras global technology solutions to construct residential projects, commercial office buildings, hotels, malls, hospitals, schools and industrial parks across Telangana, the release said.

Ash Bhardwaj, President Asia and Middle East, Katerra said "Apart from our factory at Krishnagiri near Bangalore, we now have a factory in Hyderabad to service our clients in the Southern part of India." He further said going forward the company has plans to invest in setting up factories in the Mumbai-Pune region in the later part of the year, followed by a plant in NCR to cover the North market..

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