KOLKATA: Leading automobile manufacturer Tata Motors Limited today said that the company was readying itself for compliance to the Bharat Stage-VI (BS) emission norms scheduled to come into effect from 2020.

"TML is now working towards manufacturing BS-VI- compliant commercial vehicles for which significant R&D activity is being undertaken," Girish Wagh, head, product line, MHCV (medium and heavy commercial vehicles), of the company said.

NEW DELHI: Tata MotorsBSE 1.25 % today reported over 9 per cent decline in global sales in April at 73,691 units, including that of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) vehicles.

The company had sold 81,333 units in April 2016, Tata Motors said in a statement.

On the back of an over 11 per cent growth last year, largest commercial vehicles maker Tata Motors expects to ship at least 15 per cent more trucks and buses this financial year as it hopes to export at least half of the banned BS-III inventory. The company also expects domestic sale of commercial vehicles, led by LCVs and buses, to grow 10-15 per cent in fiscal 2018 aided by a favourbale GST rate and the likely normal monsoons.

Tata Motors and the Sanand plant workers are likely to sign a wage settlement agreement for five years (2015-2020) by June this year. Earlier, Tata had signed a landmark wage settlement with Pune Workers' Union in March for three years from September 2015 to August 2018, where a portion of workers' salaries was linked to their performance.

However, in the case of Sanand, it is still not clear whether the bifurcated wage package linking pay with performance would be adopted here as well. Worker leaders claimed that so far the discussions have not touched upon the subject.

Tata Motors dipped 4% to Rs 420, extending its Thursday’s 2.3% fall on BSE, after the company said Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) reported 2.3% decline in retail sales of 40,385 units in the month of April.

The stock is trading at its lowest level since May 30, 2016. It hit a 52-week low of Rs 376 on May 11, 2016 in intra-day trade. Till 11:58 am; a combined 4.8 million shares changed hands on the counter on BSE and NSE.

Fiat India has been supplying its tried and tested 1.3 litre Multijet diesel engine to car manufacturers such as Maruti Suzuki and Tata Motors for years. The engine is now powering enough cars in the country to be labelled as the national engine of the country. In a further development, the company has signed a new agreement with the two automakers in the country, by which Fiat will supply around 2.2 lakh units of its 2.0 litre Multijet turbodiesel diesel engine and not the 1.3 litre unit.

Skoda, the Czech car maker and part of the Volkswagen group, is anticipating a push in its performance from 2019 when new products developed jointly with Tata Motors roll out. These products are targeted at emerging markets, including India.

“These will be products with the Skoda brand character but developed with Asian/Indian mindset in terms of ways of development, choice of materials and productivity levels and other strategies.

Tata Motors, the most impacted company by last month's Supreme Court ban on registration of vehicles meeting BS-III emission standards, said it might be exporting at least half of its 15,000 impacted light, medium and heavy commercial vehicles (CVs).

For the rest, it is hoping the industry will get a window of opportunity from the court.

NEW DELHI, April 19 (Reuters) - Tata Motors is planning to export some of its unsold stock of older-technology trucks, after an unexpected ban on their sale in India, a senior company executive said on Wednesday.

India's top court in March banned the sale of vehicles that run on older Euro III fuel technology from April 1, a decision that led to a sharp fall in shares of major automakers sitting on unsold inventory.

TAL Manufacturing Solutions, a subsidiary of Tata Motors Ltd, has formed a technology partnership with Italy-based RTA Motion Control Systems for motors and drives used in its indigenously developed robot, TAL Brabo. TAL also intends to expand collaboration with Italian firm to explore applications of the Brabo robot in new user industries.

“I am proud to announce a new partnership with RTA Motion Control Systems, a leading Italian based group, for critical components in the TAL Brabo robot.

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