You Can Soon Get Your Vehicle Scrapped At Maruti, Toyota's JV Centre In Noida; Here Is How
India&rsquos vehicle scrappage policy is still underway and before it is etched in stone scrapping centres for the same are being setup by the major stakeholders of the automobile industry. Maruti Suzuki and Toyota Tsusho Group have now joined the bandwagon after announcing a vehicle dismantling and recycling joint venture. The target is to provide a centre for &ldquoresponsible recycling&rdquo of old vehicles.
India¡¯s vehicle scrappage policy is still underway and before it is etched in stone, scrapping centres for the same are being setup by the major stakeholders of the automobile industry in the country. Maruti Suzuki and Toyota Tsusho Group have now joined the bandwagon, after announcing a vehicle dismantling and recycling joint venture by the name of Maruti Suzuki Toyotsu India Private Limited (MSTI).
Amidst an equal partnership having 50 percent equity each, Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) and Toyota Tsusho Group (Toyota Tsusho Corporation (TTC) and Toyota Tsusho India Private Limited (TTIPL)) will be setting up the plant in Noida, Uttar Pradesh within 2020-21.
The target is to provide a centre for ¡°responsible recycling¡± of old vehicles, as put by Kenichi Ayukawa, Managing Director & CEO, MSIL. For this, MSTI promises to follow global standards for the dismantling of the vehicles and reusing the scrap, thus reducing the overall waste in the process. This will also include complete solid and liquid waste management as per the Indian laws.
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How will it work?
MSTI will procure end-of-life vehicles from sources including Maruti and other dealerships as well as from individuals. Post the procurement, the vehicles will be inspected and their initial documentation will be carried out at the MSTI centre in Noida.
The vehicles will then be pre-treated, de-polluted for oils, airbags and batteries and then dismantled. Scrap metal obtained from dismantling will then be processed and segregated, post which it will be sent to steel mills and smelters.
Once the physical process is completed, final documentation for the de-registrations of the vehicle will be carried out. Vehicle owners can then use the documents to de-register their vehicles at their local RTOs through a certificate of destruction handed to them by the centre.
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Future Expansion
Upon its setup, the centre will be the first of its kind in a chain of such plants planned by MSTI. Initial plans for the centre mention a capacity of around 2000 vehicles per month, to be handled by a staff of 50 members.
Such infrastructures for vehicle dismantling and recycling will continue to come up as India moves towards a formal scrappage policy. The policy, currently under a planning phase, will incentivise owners to scrap their end-of-life vehicles in exchange for a newer make. The policy aims to address the ongoing slowdown in the auto industry with this, while also tackling the issue of rising emissions through such inefficient vehicles.
