Bombardier Transportation, global major in rail technology, has announced that it will start exports of Bombardier Flexx Metro bogies from its India manufacturing facility at Savli, near Vadodara.
The company has bagged an order from the Government of South Australia last year for 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) facilities in Australia.
The Savli site will manufacture and supply semi-finished bogies for the vehicles.
Exports are expected to start in the last quarter of 2012. It will be completed by the second quarter of 2014, said a press release from the company.
The new rail cars will form 240-seat trains, including the propulsion and control system.
This first export order to be manufactured at Savli comes only three years after the start of commercial production in June 2009.
With an investment of €33 million, Savli employs nearly 700 highly skilled team members and indirectly generates about 3,000 jobs in Vadodara, Gujarat.