Alstom has opened its first bogie centre in Astana, Kazakhstan, to produce and maintain bogies for all types of railway vehicles throughout their entire lifecycle.
The new centre comprises an impressive total area of more than 8,000m2 and under the framework of Alstom’s development plan in Kazakhstan, the company invested over EU 15 million in construction of the bogie centre. This allowed Alstom to employ more than 100 jobs locally.
The new facility has a capacity to manufacture 200 bogies and overhaul 300 bogies per year.
As part of its Flexx bogies offering, Alstom proposes the widest range of products, catering various rail transportation needs, from light rail to high-speed trains. Through continuous investment in research & development, Alstom’s bogies show high reliability, optimised total cost of ownership, and result in improved comfort for passengers. Alstom also offers Flexx Consult services, including the wheel-rail interface study to create the optimal interface between wheel and rail profiles, resulting in improved performance and reduced life cycle cost for both, wheel and rail.
The bogie centre in Astana is a “state-of-the-art facility established as a result of Alstom’s industrialisation development in Kazakhstan. Our bogie centre plays a crucial role in providing full maintenance for Alstom freight and passenger locomotives over a 25-year period,” Kanat Alpysbayev, Managing Director in Western and Central Asia said.
Alstom has been operating in Kazakhstan since 2010 and has established a significant industrial base with over 1,000 employees working to address national mobility’s needs and modernisation of the country’s railway.
Today, Alstom’s footprint spans across 11 sites in 6 cities throughout the country. The company has two production plants – Electric Locomotive Assembly Plant (EKZ) in Astana for the production of electric locomotives and JV KazElectroPrivod (KEP) in Almaty for the production of point machines. It also has four service depots to maintain locomotives in Astana, Almaty, Arys and Shu, two troubleshooting areas located in Tobol and Ekibastuz. Repair centre, Bogie centre and corporate office are located in Astana.
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