AHMEDABAD: The growing auto industry in Gujarat has caught the fancy of tyre makers. The latest to jump on to the bandwagon is Vee Rubber group, the Thailand-based company that has chosen Vithalapur to set up its first plant in India.

Vee Rubber group has decided to set up 10,000 units per day manufacturing facility, which is coming up in close vicinity of Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) in Vithalapur, about 90 km from Ahmedabad. The company has also filed Industrial Entrepreneurial Memorandum (IEM) with the central government. Currently, Vee Rubber operates three large plants on the outskirts of Bangkok.

City-based consultancy firm VMS has been roped by Vee Rubber for design and procurement of the plant. "The company is going to start the construction in next couple ofadversely affect digestion further down the gastrointestinal tract. For example, an average stabled horse chews 3,400 times/kg of forage and finishes eating forage in approximately 30-40 minutes for each feed. Accordingly, where the average horse is fed three times daily, no forage enters the horse's stomach for 22 hours in a 24 hour period. In addition, as the horse cannot then continuously graze in accordance with its natural instinct, the horse can become stressed and bored and suffer from physiological problems such as the aforementioned gastric ulcers and behavioural abnormalities such as crib-biting or wind-sucking.
More than 90% of racehorses in training have been reported to suffer from gastric ulcers which are one of the leading causes of impaired performance in the competition horse while non-competition horses such as