Siemens sets up rail bogie unit at Aurangabad
28 Apr 2010
Siemens Rolling Stock Pvt Ltd, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Siemens Ltd, has set up India's first dedicated rail bogie plant at Aurangabad. Set up with an initial investment of Rs200 crore, the factory will manufacture high performance and superior quality bogies for locomotives, passenger coaches, electric multiple units and metros.
The world-class manufacturing facility has been set up in technological collaboration with the Siemens AG bogie facility at Graz, Austria. Siemens will provide the latest bogie solutions for the Indian as well Asian markets.
The factory has the capacity to manufacture about 800 customized bogies per annum, with scope for expansion to suit the market requirement. The bogies manufactured with the high-end technologies and top grade steel, meet the European standards, ie EN norms, and will have a minimum codal life of 25 years and a lower life cycle cost.
The factory, spread over an area of 15 acres, has been designed to incorporate eco-friendly, sustainable practices at its facilities.
"Our new plant at Aurangabad was envisaged, keeping in mind the tremendous growth potential of the Indian rail infrastructure segment. India has emerged as the preferred destination for us, as we continue to build and bring technology-intensive manufacturing plants of international standards to India. This bogie factory is the first outside Europe and US, and it enables us to offer our customers localised products at highly competitive rate," Armin Bruck, managing director, Siemens Ltd, said.
The new facility has the required capacities and capabilities to produce high performance bogies for locomotives, passenger coaches, EMUs and metros. The range will include metro bogies with 18 tonnes axle load with speed upwards of 80 kmph, bogies for local trains with 21.5 tonne axle load with maximum speed of 130 kmph, bogies for high speed trains with a speed range of 350 kmph, high comfort bogies for passenger coaches with speed upwards of 160 kmph and high axle load locomotive bogies.