IKCO to make 300,000 economy engines per year

Iran Khodro Company (IKCO) plans to produce more than 300,000 economy engines during the next Iranian calendar year (starting March 21, 2010).

“Following the strategy of reducing fuel consumption, IKCO will allocate 50 percent of its production capacity to low consumption engines in the next year,” said IKCO Deputy Chief Executive (CEO) for Powertrain, Ali Sheikhzadeh.

“Producing this number of low consumption engines can
be considered a leap forward in enjoying the EF7 and TU5 engines on IKCO products,” he added.

Sheikhzadeh says the launch of an economy engine production line with the capacity of 1,000 units a day will lead IKCO toward the goal of replacing high consumption engines with those with lower consumption rates.