Sundaram Brake Linings will increase its capacity to manufacture friction material, the only product it makes which is used in brake linings of automobiles, by 3,000 metric tonne a year from the current 20,024 metric tonne.
Though the company describes its installed capacity in metric tonne in its annual report, it lists its production in sets of finished goods. In 2008-09, its installed capacity had gone up 0.6%, it had produced 18% fewer sets at 14.2 million sets.