Huf India Private Limited

The automotive supplier Huf India has been based in Pune since 2007 - and is thus right in the middle of one of India's industrial centers. The metropolis is the country's educational capital, and has won several awards as India's most livable city. In short, Pune is the place to be. Numerous OEMs and suppliers are located around the town, which has been named India's "Motor City" by the British daily newspaper "The Independent". Huf India produces lock sets, door handles and brackets for well-known customers all over the world. Moreover, the automotive supplier Huf also has a state-of-the-art paint shop in India. When it comes to lean management and sustainability, the Pune plant also goes full throttle. India as a growth market? Many OEM and automotive supplier companies were late to recognize the opportunities that the subcontinent has to offer. The country's great economic potential was not really discovered by the international automotive industry until the mid-2000s. Huf was one of the pioneers here as well and demonstrated entrepreneurial foresight by opening a new location in Pune in 2007. What initially began as a sales office in cooperation with a local joint venture partner quickly grew into a modern production site that today plays an important role in the global network of the automotive supplier Huf. As early as 2008, Huf India began manufacturing lock sets for a well-known British car manufacturer, at that time still in rented premises. At the same time, Huf pushed forward with the construction of its own die casting plant, which went into operation in 2012. The plant, which is located around 140 kilometers southeast of the metropolis of Mumbai, subsequently continued to grow: Within three years, in addition to assembly lines for door handles and brackets, Huf also built a computer-controlled paint shop as well as facilities for toolmaking and the production of molded parts in Pune. The site of the automotive supplier Huf is manufacturing several hundred thousand lock sets and tens of thousands of door handles per month. The Indian car market is booming. In 2022, new registrations increased by 23 percent compared to the previous year and reached a new record level of almost 3.8 million passenger cars. In this booming environment, Huf India is very close to its customers – also geographically: Numerous automobile manufacturers have their own plants around Pune. The good reputation of the automotive supplier, which the site has built up over the past three years under the leadership of Sandeep Chaudhary, Country Manager Huf India and Plant Director Operations, now extends far beyond the domestic market. The products developed and manufactured in Pune meet highest quality standards – as proven by numerous awards from renowned OEMs. Consequently, more than half of the components produced by Huf India find their way into vehicles of various brands around the globe.