Bombardier Transportation will start exporting semi-finished Bombardier Flexx Metro 3001 bogies from its manufacturing facility in Savli near Vadodara.
The Savli site will manufacture and supply semi-finished Bombardier Flexx Metro 3001 bogies for the vehicles. Exports are expected to start in the last quarter of 2012 with completion of deliveries in the second quarter of 2014, says a company statement.
Bombardier Transportati- on won an order from the Government of South Australia in March 2011 for the supply and maintenance of 25 kV electric trains to be delivered as three-car sets. The rail cars will be built at Bombardier's Dandenong (Victoria) and Maryborough (Queensland) manufacturing facilities in Australia.
More than 200,000 Flexx bogies are successfully operating around the world and Bombardier Transportation manufactures more than 4,000 of these bogies each year. Equipped with the latest technology and equipment, the bogie production hall at Savli has already manufactured more than 1,250 Flexx Metro 3000 bogies for Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). The site is capable of producing 1,500 assembled bogies a year.
This is the first export order to be manufactured at Savli and comes only three years after the start of commercial production in June 2009. In addition to catering to the Indian market, the Savli site is set to develop export activities around the region.With an investment valued at 33 million euros, Savli site employs nearly 700 highly skilled team members.