Yamaha Motors Escorts Limited(YMEL) is a joint venture company formed by the alliance of Escorts Limited,the flagship company of the

Rs.3600 crores Escorts Group,a major in the two- wheeler business and Yamaha Motor Company Limited (YMCL),Japan. The global giant in two- wheeler business over 3 decades and having the distinction of putting over 25 lakh two-wheelers on Indian roads.The company has presently two manufacturing facilities located at Faridabad in Haryana and at Surajpur in Uttar Pradesh. Using state-of-art-art technology,for its Rajdoot ,Yamaha and Escorts range of motorcycles,the company is on the fast track to make its presence felt in all the segments of two-wheeler industry,offering exciting machines not only to the Indian customers,but also being a leading exporter of two wheelers .It is the proximity to the customers that gives the YMEL the confidence of riding into the next decade with world-class technology.Meeting the diverse needs of customers million of bikes across millions of miles.

Yamaha over the years 1960-Secured license under technical collaboration with CEKOP,Poland.

1961-Obtained 23 acres of land for separate factory. 1962-Assembly and partial manufacturing started in plant 1. 1964-Machinery was installed in the new building. 1965-Manufacturing facilities shifted from plant 1 to the present building. 1972-GTS-a small motorcycle was introduced. 1979-Entered in technical collaboration with Yamaha Motor Company of Japan for manufacturing 350cc motorcycle. 1983-Letter of intend obtained for manufacture of 100cc motorcycle. 1983-Launched 350cc motorcycle in the market all over India. 1984-On identified scale ,manufacturing facilities of various components were improved upon by the 4th generation machinery equipment. 1984-175cc Super-D model was introduced. 1985-Started manufacturing of Rx-100cc motorcycle in collaboration with Yamaha Motor Company,Japan. 1985-Installed UYEMURA ,automatic electroplanting plant. 1989-Introduction of indicators in existing 175cc Rajdoot motorcycle.

1990-Upgradation of 175cc motorcycle by introducing newer technology and and styling bringing in of EXCEL-T with telescopic front forks /modern system. 1993-Electronic ignition system of Rajdoot launched. 1995-Started manufacturing 50cc moped on 31st march. 1996-ISO9001 was achieved. 1997-Launch of Yamaha RXZ and 175cc Escorts ACE. 1998-YBX 4-stroke bi-wheeler was launched. 2000-YD-125 was launched. 2000-Share of Yamaha Motor Company,Japan rose to 74%,so take over of Escorts Yamaha Motor Ltd.(EYML) and conversion of Yamaha Motors Escorts Ltd.(YMEL). 2001-On 14th june ,Yamaha Motors Escorts Ltd. was officialy taken over by Yamaha Motor Company,Japan. 2002-Libero.