The achievement has not gone unnoticed: CLW has been approached by Trenitalia, the Italian railroad operator, through the international consultant firm McKinsey & Co for making four-axle locomotives. The platform proposed by Trenitalia was similar to WAP-5 class locomotive currently being produced by CLW as its flagship product. | |
| It was aiming to produce 128 locomotives in fiscal 2005-06, R Sivadasan, general manager of CLW, said. In the month of March 2005, CLW produced a record 111 traction motors and 18 locomotives. |
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| CLW is the only organisation in IR which is part of the National Mission on Power Electronic Technology (NAMPET) "" a strategic mission area of GoI to set up world class power electronic industrial base. |
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| An export and sales wing is being established in line with other production units of the railways. |
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| Sadasivam said traffic carried by IR was expected to rise from 600 million tonne in 2004-05 to 631 million tonne and this would require a 30 per cent increase in electric loco production to provide necessary haulage capacity. |
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| Traffic on IR was expected to rise further to 700 mn tonnes. |
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