Alstom becomes shareholder of Transmashholding

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Alstom has finalised its partnership agreement with Transmashholding by acquiring a 25% stake (plus one share) of TMH, the leading Russian rail manufacturer.

The deal was closed after Alstom received all approvals of the appropriate Russian authorities.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service, Russia’s anti-trust agency, and the Government Commission on foreign investments in strategic sectors issued a favourable decision for this deal.

Approval was previously granted by the EU, Ukrainian and Kazakh authorities.

The closing of the deal took place on 27 May in Amsterdam, at the head office of Transmashholding’s parent company, The Breakers Investments BV.

Alstom made an initial payment of $75 million (approximately €53m) to the selling shareholders.

The remainder of the price will be calculated using a computation method agreed upon by both French and Russian parties and based on TMH operating results over a four-year period (2008-2011). Alstom will hold two seats on the TMH board of directors.

“This signing culminates several years of partnership and intense collaboration between our two companies”, said Patrick Kron, chairman and CEO of Alstom.

“Russia represents a key market for Alstom in our three businesses, and we are very proud that Transmashholding and its shareholders chose Alstom to help them modernize the Russian rail sector”, he added.

Alstom and Transmashholding entered into a strategic partnership in 2008 with the objective of fully meeting the 1520 railway market’s needs for high-performing rolling stock.

The companies are currently working on the joint development of the EP20 double-systems passenger electrical locomotive and the 2ES5 asynchronous mainline freight electrical locomotive.

Employing Alstom’s latest technology, the locomotives are designed at the ‘TRTrans’ engineering centre, a joint venture of Alstom and TMH based in Novocherkassk. A second joint company dedicated to the manufacturing of rolling stock key-components will be established in the coming months.

In 2010, Russian Railways (RZD) awarded Alstom and TMH a contract for manufacturing 200 new-generation electric passenger locomotives (EP20), and Kazakh Railways (KTZ) has awarded a contract for 295 electric freight and passenger locomotives.

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