Alstom's Sricity unit delivers 500th metro car, logs 27 mn km across trains

The factory manufactures Rolling Stock (Metro Trains) for Urban Metro projects and is Alstom's largest such unit in Asia-Pacific

Alstom Transport India Ltd today completed production of its 500th metro car at its factory in SriCity, an integrated Business city, near Chennai.

The factory manufactures Rolling Stock (Metro Trains) for Urban Metro projects and is 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 andMontreal.

The currently operational metro trainsets built at this facility have clocked over 27 million kilometres cumulatively.

Alstom’s SriCity 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.

Mostrecently, after the advent of Unlock 1.0 in India, the facility 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), MontrealMetro - Réseau Express Métropolitain and Sydney Metro (City andSouthwest extension).

This factory also has more than 15% of women employees in various roles, as supervisors, planners, shop floor engineers etc.

“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,” Alain SPOHR, Managing Director of Alstom India and South Asia said,

According to him, the local content in the trainsets made at SriCity is over 75 per cent for all domestic projects.