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Informist, Friday, Mar. 20, 2026

 

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--Tata Motors PV aide: Company has overcome Gujarat Gas supply cut at Sanand
--CONTEXT:Gujarat Gas cut supply to Tata Motors PV Sanand units 50% from Mar 6
--Tata Motors PV aide: Tata Motors PV Sanand plants' paint shop work normal
--Tata Motors PV aide: Work at paint shop at Sanand hit for a few hours
--Tata Motors PV aide: Production at Tata Motors PV Sanand plants unaffected
--CONTEXT:Tata Motors PV was expected to cut Sanand output on gas supply cut
--Tata Motors PV aide: Produced nearly 800 cars at new plant Wednesday
--Tata Motors PV aide: Produced nearly 400 cars at old plant Wednesday
--Tata Motors PV aide: Company filling Sanand gas shortfall at higher cost
 

 

By Sunil Raghu

 

SANAND – Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd. has overcome the shortage of natural gas at its Sanand plants and maintained production at both the plants at normal levels despite a 50% cut in natural gas supply by Gujarat Gas since Mar. 6, multiple shop floor personnel working at these two plants in Sanand said on Thursday on condition of anonymity.

 

"There was a worry for a few hours at paint shop as we learnt that Gujarat Gas had cut gas supply to half due to military conflict in West Asia. I don't know how, but bosses seem to have managed and we are operating at normal capacity and never had any problem," said a technician working at the paint shop.

 

Gujarat Gas normally supplies 25,000 standard cubic metres per day of natural gas to Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles' units at Sanand. The gas is primarily used in automotive paint shops to heat the metal and cure and dry the paint. While the painting process uses water or solvent-based coating, the fuel is needed to heat the ovens to bake and harden the coatings. Natural gas is preferred as it is efficient in heating large industrial ovens. Liquefied petroleum gas, electricity, and propane are also used as alternatives.

 

"We heard that company is paying double the normal cost to buy natural gas and have been told to be judicious in our working," said another paint shop technician.

 

Tata Motors PV runs four production lines at its two plants in Sanand, with a combined capacity to manufacture over 450,000 cars per annum, scalable to over 600,000 vehicles. One plant has two lines manufacturing the Tiago and Tigor, while the two lines at the other plant are used to manufacture Nexon, Sierra, and Curvv, including electric models. "We have been producing about 800 vehicles every day at the plant Tata had bought from Ford and 400 cars at the plant it built," another shop floor technician said. The plant Tata Motors had built manufactures Tiago and Tigor, while the plant acquired from Ford is used to make electric vehicles and utility vehicles, the technicians said.

 

While it was not possible for Informist to enter the plant, a visit around the plant and its facilities indicated normalcy in operations. One could also spot inventory of hundreds of vehicles lying at two of the facilities used to store finished cars. "The company stores cars for two days of supply within the company premises, other than two big plots spread across acres where inventory is stored," said a local who works for Tata Motors PV.

 

Tata Motors has another plant in Pune, Maharashtra, which has a capacity to manufacture 400,000 vehicles per annum. It is also setting up a plant in Tamil Nadu with annual capacity of 250,000 vehicles.

 

The challenge of natural gas procurement has come at a time when automakers just began seeing a recovery in demand. Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles sold 63,331 cars to dealerships in February, up 35% on year. Domestic passenger vehicle sales jumped 34% on year, with the company selling about 62,329 cars in India in February, according to an exchange filing by the company earlier. The Nexon maker, which holds a share of about 45% in the Indian electric vehicle market, sold 8,385 electric vehicles in February, up 57% on year. Its exports for the quarter stood at 1,002 units, up 167% on year.

 

For the December quarter, on a consolidated basis, Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles had reported a net loss of INR 34.86 billion on revenue of INR 761.70 billion. Its December quarter consolidated earnings came under pressure from the lingering impact of a crippling cyberattack in August, which had sapped the momentum of its UK-based subsidiary Jaguar Land Rover. On Friday, the company's shares closed 1.6% higher on the National Stock Exchange at INR 314.10.  End

 

Edited by Avishek Dutta

 

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