Alstom, a leader in sustainable and smart mobility, achieved another milestone today in India. It’s SriCity factory in Andhra Pradesh that manufactures Rolling Stock (Metro Trains) for Urban Metro projects, successfully completed production of its 500th Metro Car. As Alstom’s Largest Urban Rolling Stock manufacturing unit in the Asia-Pacific region, this facility is delivering metro trainsets to not only Indian cities but also global ones – Chennai, Kochi, Lucknow, Mumbai, Sydney and Montreal.
- The currently operational metro train sets built at this facility have clocked over 27 million kilometres cumulatively.
- Known for its state-of-the-art manufacturing standards, Alstom’s Sri City facility started operations in September 2012, with manufacturing for Chennai Metro.
- So far, the site has recorded over 2 million manufacturing testing hours and has a capacity to build 480 cars per annum.
- Most recently, after the advent of Unlock 1.0 in India, the site successfully dispatched the first batch of two trainsets for the Canadian city of Montreal (Réseau Express Métropolitain).
- Presently, the site is manufacturing for Mumbai Metro L3 (Aqua Line), Montreal Metro – Réseau Express Métropolitain and Sydney Metro (City and Southwest extension).
- This factory also has more than 15% of women employees in various roles, as supervisors, planners, shop floor engineers etc.
Speaking on this milestone, Alain SPOHR, Managing Director of Alstom India and South Asia said, “Despite the global pandemic that has disrupted business across industries, our teams continue to work tirelessly, to ensure on-time deliveries to Metro Corporations who are working on upgrading urban mobility in various cities. We are manufacturing trainsets that incorporate the highestsafetyfeaturesalongwithenhancedpassengerexperience. Our commitment continues towardsMake-in-India, and localization is over 75% for all domestic projects.”
Alstom in India:
- Alstom’s footprint in India is spread across various states – focused on developing Engineering solutions at the Innovation Center in Bangalore, Electric Locomotives (eLoco) at the Madhepura unit, Rail Components in Coimbatore and eLoco Car Body Shell production in Kolkata.
- With more than 5700 full times employees, and in line with Government’s Make-in-India’ initiative, Alstom has been investing heavily in the country to deliver world class rolling stock, research & development and components to not only serve the domestic market, but also rest of the world.
- Until recently, Indian Railways has been extremely independent and never had joint ventures for its large projects.
- Signing a partnership with Alstom in 2015 marked the beginning of a new era for Indian Railways.
- The contract worth €3.5 billion includes manufacturing of 800 double-section 12000-horsepower electric locomotives for freight service and associated maintenance for a period of 11 years.
- The project envisions to create more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs.
- Alstom is also executing electrification, signalling and telecommunications system for over 343 km along the Eastern phase of the ambitious Dedicated Freight Corridor which is a key step in transforming the freight services in the country.
- As part of the contract, Alstom is building the sub-stations and providing the control centre.
- The control centre situated at Allahabad is one of the world’s largest Operations Control Centres for Railways.
- The Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) will not just enable safer and timely movement of freight across the country but will also reduce the traffic on the corridor for passenger trains.
URBAN – Domestic Project References
Rolling Stock Projects:
- Chennai Metro, Kochi Metro, Lucknow Metro (Completed and in revenue service)
- Mumbai Metro Line 3
Infrastructure Projects:
- Chennai Metro Track work (Completed and in revenue service)
- Delhi Metro Phase III Track work (Package CT-1B) (Completed and in revenue service)
- Kochi Metro – Receiving Sub-station, Power Supply 3rd rail 750 VDC (Completed and in revenue service)
- Mumbai Metro Line 3 25 KV OCS
- Pune Line 1 & 2 25 KV OCS
- Bangalore 3rd rail EP2CC
- Jaipur Metro – Power supply and Overhead catenary systems
Signaling Projects:
- Kochi Metro – Signalling & Telecom (Completed and in revenue service)
- Signalling System Lucknow Metro N-S Corridor (Completed and in revenue service)
- Bengaluru Metro Phase I DTG Signalling (Completed and in revenue service)
- Jaipur Metro Phase I & Extension signalling (Completed and in revenue service)
- Delhi Metro Line 1 & Line 2 (Completed and in revenue service)
- Bengaluru Metro Phase II – DTG Signalling
- Signalling & Telecommunication system Mumbai L3
- Signalling & Telecommunication system L2&L7
- Signalling System Pune Line 1 & 2
Urban – Export Project References For Rolling Stock (Metro Train):
- Sydney metro North West Line, Australia (Delivered)
- MRéseau express métropolitain (REM), Montreal, Canada
- Sydney Metro City and Southwest, Australia
Source: Alstom-Press Release
