CAF

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mage: CAF expects to deliver the first eight-car train to CPTM in 2015. Photo: 2013 CAF, Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, S.A.

Spanish railcar manufacturer Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) has secured a contract worth €380m from Sao Paulo's regional rail operator Compañía Paulista de Trenes Metropolitanos (CPTM) to deliver 35 eight-car commuter trains.

Under the contract, which is being funded by the Government of São Paulo in Brazil, the first vehicles are expected to be delivered in 2015.

CAF won the contract after beating competition from Korean-Brazilian consortium IESA-Hyundai Rotem and the Chinese company Changchun Railway Vehicles.

"Under the contract, which is being funded by the Government of São Paulo in Brazil, the first vehicles are expected to be delivered in 2015."

The new rail cars will help extend and modernise São Paulo's transit network and the services of CPTM, which manages the railway transit of 22 towns in São Paulo, transporting over 2.6 million passengers a day.

CAF is executing a number of contracts in Brazil, including the supply of 26 additional units for the São Paulo Metro and 15 electric trains for operations in the Brazilian city of Recife.

In late 2012, the FROTA BH Consortium, led by CAF, secured a contract to deliver ten trains for the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, in combination with another contract for the manufacturing of bogies for 15 new trains for the city of Porto Alegre.

CAF has secured contracts worth more than €2bn to deliver rolling stock to Brazilian rail projects.

Alstom in world

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The newly opened 55,000ft² plant will be used to assemble over 900 bogies for 468 new rubber-tired metro cars to be delivered to Société de transport de Montréal (STM) by a joint venture of Bombardier and Alstom under a C$1.2bn ($1.13bn) eight-year contract.

Manufacturing of the first bogie is expected to be completed in autumn 2013.

According to Alstom, the bogies include drive, braking and suspension mechanisms to provide comfort and safety to passengers.

Alstom Transport president of North America Guillaume Mehlman said that in addition to the contract with the STM, the new Sorel-Tracy plant will also be used for other transit projects across North America.

"This transfer once again demonstrates Alstom Transport's ability to localise manufacturing operations to be closer to its customers and users," Mehlman said.

"The bogies include drive, braking and suspension mechanisms to provide comfort and safety to passengers."

Alstom vice-president and general manager Sorel-Tracy Claude Lambert said: "By locating the manufacturing and assembly operations for the bogies in Quebec, Alstom is proud to contribute to the STM's requirement for 60% Canadian content."

Alstom's manufacturing centre in Hornell, New York, US, will deliver the traction motors that will be integrated into the bogies of Montreal's metro cars.

The bogies will later be shipped to the Bombardier plant in La Pocatière, where the cars will be mounted on them.

Alstom will also be delivering traction, train control, communications and passenger information, and video-surveillance systems for STM's new metro cars.

Montreal's metro includes four lines with a total of 71km of track and 68 stations.