Steel Strips Receives Export Order From Jaguar Land Rover

New Delhi: Steel Strips Wheels, a manufacturer of automotive steel wheels, has secured an order from Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).

This order is one of the Steel Strips Wheels Ltd's (SSWL) biggest export orders, the company said in a regulatory filing.

As part of the deal, SSWL will supply its products to "JLR's UK and one more European facility", it added.

The company, however, did not disclose financial details.

The wheels will be supplied from SSWL's Chennai plant with the first supplies planned to start from February 2016.

SSWL designs and manufacture automotive steel wheels since 1991 and is among the leading supplier to Indian and global automobile manufacturers.

The company has three production facilities - Dappar (Punjab), Oragadam (near Chennai) and Jamshedpur (Jharkhand).

Shares in SSWL, on Tuesday, ended 3.34 per cent higher at Rs 389.80 apiece on the BSE, whose benchmark Sensex index finished up 0.09 per cent.