Leading carmaker Ford India has informed that the company has started exporting petrol engines. The Chennai unit of Ford will export these petrol engines to Thailand.

According to company officials, the company is looking forward to export them to the other regions of the world.

The Asia-Pacific and African regions are the main focus of the firm, but it is also targeting to export its engine all across the globe.

The Chennai facility of the company is situated at Maraimalai Nagar. Auto Alliance Thailand (AAT) is the sister facility of the Chennai plant.

The company has exported its first batch of 1.4 litre and 1.6 litre high-compression petrol engines from its Indian facility to Thailand.

President and Managing Director of Ford India, Mr. Michael Boneham has informed that in this lot the company has exported 1,000 petrol engines to Thailand.

This has been a momentous step for the firm towards its objective to produce and export its product to overseas market.

The company is eyeing to export its engines to other Ford plants in the Asia-Pacific region as well.