The Société des parcs industriels Sorel-Tracy has officially begun construction of the new Alstom manufacturing plant in the Ludger-Simard industrial park in Canada.
The new plant, expected to be completed by next October, ‘supports Alstom Transport’s role in the C$1.2 billion contract between the Bombardier-Alstom consortium and the Société de Transport de Montréal (STM) for the manufacture of 468 new metro cars’.
In accordance with STM requirements, ‘each train must be made using 60% Canadian content’.
Alstom’s work at the new Sorel-Tracy site will be dedicated to assembling and integrating the trucks for Montreal’s new subway cars.
“Business activities are moving forward in accordance with the agreement between the Bombardier-Alstom consortium and the Société de transport de Montréal regarding the manufacture and delivery of the first train, expected to be up and running in 2014,” declared Claude Lambert, ALSTOM Énergie & Transport Canada Vice-President and General Manager.
“With this new modern industrial building, Alstom finds itself in an excellent position to meet the operational and technical requirements of its North American customers, such as STM, by supplying them with state of the art public transportation equipment and technology.”
In addition to the Sorel-Tracy site, Alstom’s facility in Montreal will supply traction, train monitoring, communication, passenger information and video-surveillance systems.
In all, ‘over 300 Alstom employees will have participated in the design, manufacture and implementation of the new STM subway cars over the 8-year term of the agreement’, Alstom said.
