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France-based Alstom is building a new logistics hall of 827 square meters at its bogie frame factory in Mátranovák, northern Hungary, with HUF 600 million (EUR 1.5 million), bringing the company’s multi-billion forint development program to an end. The investment is set to increase the capacity of the Alstom site and boost production volume by 40 percent, Világgazdaság reports.
Planning has already begun for the logistics hall, construction will start in the spring, and the project will last for a year. With this project, the HUF 6 billion (EUR 14.5 million) “Mátranovák 2030” development program of Alstom, the global leader in sustainable mobility, will come to an end. Upon completion, the company plans to increase the production capacity of the site by 40%.
The development will make Mátranovák the largest Alstom bogie frame manufacturing site in Europe, and globally one third of Alstom’s bogie frames will be produced here,”
Alstom’s statement quotes Gáspár Balázs, the CEO responsible for Hungarian operations, as saying.
Alstom vehicle on the metro line M2 in Budapest. Photo: Wikipedia
The Mátranovák plant started producing bogie frames for metro and railway trains four decades ago. They are used to mount axles, springs, and brakes, and their quality is crucial for railway safety.
The products made in Mátranovák will be used in Alstom rolling stock throughout Europe.
Today, products made in Mátranovák can be found in many types of trainsets throughout Europe: conventional and high-speed trains, commuter trains, locomotives, and double-decker wagons.
The company is the largest employer in Nógrád County, currently employing 720 highly qualified professionals, and contributes EUR 42 million a year to exports as a strategic partner of the Hungarian government. Alstom is a major player in Hungarian rail transport and one of the country’s largest suppliers of metro trains. It has produced 50 percent of the metro trains in Budapest for metro lines M2 and M4 (the latter being the first metro without a driver in Central and Eastern Europe). The company has also successfully modernized 59 electric motor trains of MÁV (Hungarian state railways) with the state-of-the-art ETCS L2 train control system.
Via Világgazdaság, Featured image: LinkedIn/Alstom