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Wabtec making components at Marhowra unit; eyes digital, signalling orders

Has started making auxiliary power units and radiators as part of localisation drive. The APUs were earlier imported from Germany

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With locomotives as a whole being manufactured at Marowha, the company is able to turn around one locomotive in three days.

Jyoti Mukul New Delhi

4 min read Last Updated : Dec 16 2020 | 10:01 PM IST

Wabtec company GE Transportation has expanded the scope of works at its locomotive factory at Marhowra in Bihar. The unit, built to cater to a contract for supplying 1,000 locomotives to the Indian Railway over 10 years, is now making components as part of localisation efforts at the facility itself besides catering to and pursuing railway contracts in digital and signalling.

“Once we stabilised locomotive manufacturing, we started to invest in component manufacturing. At the Marhowra project, we have started manufacturing auxiliary power units (APU) which were originally imported from Germany and radiators. These will have global competence as we

Topics : Piyush Goyal GE transportation Indian Railways Marhowrah

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