Chennai: Alstom India, a subsidiary of French engineering major Alstom, rolled out the 100th ‘Make-in-India’ metro train set on Monday from its state-of-the-art rolling stock manufacturing facility in Sri City near here. The delivery of the 100th train set to Kochi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (KMRCL) also marks completion of the Kochi Metro order for 25 train sets by Alstom.
The achievement was made possible by Indian talent (of the company) that includes 4,200 team members working in various locations across the country, Alain Spohr, managing director, Alstom India & South Asia, asserted on Monday.
“We are confident to reach greater heights with our commitment to make-in-India and aligning our business goals with the country’s vision,” he said after formally flagging off the train set, marking the formal dispatch. Senior managers of KMRCL Sinha and Rajendran participated in the event.
Kochi operates a 100 per cent ‘Make-in-India’ metro fleet entirely custom-built at the flagship manufacturing facility in Sri City.
“We have hit a century by delivering the 100th train-set. This milestone signifies many things, but most importantly, it is a vote of confidence of our customers in our capabilities to deliver world class, custom made solutions,” Spohr said.
The plant commenced operations in November 2013 and delivered the first metro-train set to the Chennai Metro Rail in February 2014.
The unit at Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, located about 110 km from here employs over 600 people and has a production capacity of 240 cars per year. The factory is currently scaling up to double the production capacity and also to introduce latest industrial technologies.
Before this year-end, the facility will commence production for 248 metro cars (31 train sets of 8 cars each) for the Mumbai Metro, 3,212 metro cars (106 train sets of two cars each) for Montreal Metro (Réseau express métropolitain) and 10 more train sets for Chennai metro, which is already under execution. Till date, Alstom’s Sri City unit has made deliveries of more than 420 metro cars to its Indian and international customers.
This includes delivering completely indigenous train sets to metro rail corporations of Chennai, Lucknow, Kochi and Sydney (its first international order).
