Government has approved the request of bike makers and industry stakeholders to produce plastic body motorcycles due to rise in cost of metal.
Industry have urged the government to allow small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to start the manufacturing of economically viable plastic body bikes as steel-framed bikes are slipping out of the common man’s reach.
Association of Pakistan Motorcycle Assemblers (APMA) Chairman, Muhammad Sabir Shaikh, told the media that government must consider allowing small manufacturers to make plastic-bodied scooters in partnership with Chinese bike makers.
Pakistani manufacturers could produce parts of plastic-framed bikes through joint ventures and technical collaboration agreements (TCAs) with Wuxi and Chongqing-based Chinese industry, he said.
It is estimated that more than 700 new motorcycles come on roads of Pakistan every day
More than 40 million bikes run on Pakistan’s roads while the number is increasing by 2.5 million every year. Meanwhile more than half a million three-wheelers are running all over Pakistan while in Karachi the number is more than 80,000.