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Tikhvin will supply Russia with unique carriages

06 апреля 2009 г.

At the Tikhvin rail carriage building plant (TRCBP) in the Leningrad region (oblast) a presentation was held of the advanced railway equipment, made according to the latest world technologies.

The project of constructing rail carriage building plant is implemented by IST group of companies together with the government corporation The Bank of Development and External Activity and the Eurasian Bank of Development. The total value of the project is more than 800 million dollars.

As was explained in the press service, the building of TRCBP is conducted within the framework of full-scale reconstruction of manufacturing capacity of the former plan “Transmash”. The leading world suppliers of technologies and equipment from the U.S., Spain, Israel, Germany and other countries are involved.

The area of the production area will amount 220 thousand square kilometers. The estimated capacity of the plant is 10 thousand carriages a year. “These are unique carriages produced in Russia for the first time. We are planning to finish the construction of the plant by 2010 and 2011 start the production”, explained the PR chief of IST company Anton Laptev.

A.Laptev also noted that the construction of Tikhvin rail carriage building plant is efficient in a very significant field – the creation of new workplaces. “More than 3,5 thousand people  will be working at the plant all in all. We will mostly get local specialists involved in the work, said the representative of the agency.
 

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