Apollo to Build Hospital Near Tyre Factory Site

Apollo Tyres has plans to build a specialty hospital close to the site of its soon to be relocated Premier Tyres manufacturing facility. The Rs 6 billion (£74.8 million) hospital project will be operational by the time relocation of the tyre plant in Kalamassery, Kerala is complete in April 2009, and is expected to substantially boost medical tourism in the region. The company also plans to build a traditional “Ayurveda” healthcare clinic and residential home for the elderly on six acres of land adjacent to the Kalamassery factory site. This proposal is currently being considered by India’s State Industries Department.

When the relocated Premier Tyres facility is fully operational at its new location of Irapuram, also in the state of Kerala, production will have increased from 90 to 200 tonnes per day. An extra 500 employees will be taken on to accommodate this growth, giving the plant a staff of 1,800. At this time Apollo’s total production throughout Kerala will be 500 tonnes per day, the equivalent of 10,000 truck tyres.