The Alstom plant in Bologna will produce the first 1,500 switch machines (equipment that is essential in railway signalling systems) for Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), the company that manages the national rail network in the former Soviet Union republic of Kazakhstan.
This important contract – the first part of an order that includes the manufacturing of 10,000 switch machines over a ten-year period that is worth over €90 million – also involves Scm Group – Fonderie Scm who will supply the raw components for equipment that is vital to the smooth operating of any rail network.
A repeat order is likely in 2014. “We shall do everything we can – Alfredo Aureli, Managing Director of the Rimini-based group, added – to continue our involvement in KazElectroPrivod – a joint venture between Alstom e its Kazakh partner, Kamkor, to manufacture switch machines – even when production is transferred from Bologna to Almaty, in Kazakistan, in 2015”.
This is not the first time that the group continues to be a key supplier even when production has been transferred elsewhere and not only demonstrates the quality of its products and its own know how, but also its ability to continue to be competitive in highly complex situations.
