From Savigliano to Changchun: The First EMU Train to China
is on its way

The global order, worth 620 million euros represents 60
trains.

Alstom Transport will supply 3 complete trainsets and 6
trainsets in kits. The company will also supply the equipment
for the remaining 51 trainsets which will be built locally, by
Changchun Railway Company, its local partner. Made of 8 cars
each the trains will enter commercial service in 2007 and will
run at a speed of 200 km/h on various regional lines. After the
High Speed Train for Korea, this is Alstom Transports
second experience of transfer of technology.

Development, manufacturing and testing, were completed in
just 22 months. Over 1,000 people have worked together for a
total of 2 million hours in the European sites of Savigliano,
Sesto San Giovanni, Villeurbanne, Ornans, Tarbes, and in the
Chinese sites of Changchun, Qingdao, Shangai, Xian.

The trains are of a new design: the body derives from the
SM3 - developed for the Finnish Railways - while the bogie is
of the kind used for the Lanzaredas train, developed for Spain.
The main components belong to the last generation, similar to
the New Pendolino ones.

Alstom Transport supported its partner CRC in selecting the
40 European suppliers of secondary components - doors, brakes,
air conditioning units. In turn The company also helped these
manufacturers to single out their Chinese partners.

For Alstom Transport the stakes of this contract are high :
the Chinese market is booming. It is expected that over the
next decade 1,000 trains of this kind will be ordered, against
120 or so in Europe.

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*EMU : Electrical Multiple Unit