EU: In 2021, the REUSE project by UIC to stimulate the railway equipment recycling was finalized. In turn, manufacturers are increasingly indicating the share of materials in the rolling stock that are recyclable.
Russia: 20 startups became the winners of the TMH: New Vision acceleration program, a joint project of Transmashholding (TMH) and the Skolkovo Foundation.
Advertising
Russia: TVZ's small series workshop plans to manufacture 59 carriages of various models in Torzhok in 2022. Also, the KSC’s blanking division is operating at the site of the former Torzhok Car-Building Plant.
Russia: For the planned increase in the freight cars production, KAVAZ joined the labor productivity growth national project, creates a car digital twin, and testing laboratories were merged on the basis of the parent company.
Mexico: The railcar producer has completed a shift of production from the US to Mexico, that resulted in significant cost savings as production level rises. Now Freight Car America continues to scale up new production.
Belarus: The manufacturer notes that this is a forced measure, as the site will face a shortage of electronic and electrical products due to EU sanctions against Belarus amid the situation in Ukraine.
Russia: Ural Locomotives received EU certificate for the relevant assembly technology, and also initiated the development of a domestic standard as part of the UIRE standardization program.
USA: In first years, the site will produce metro cars in order to deliver it to Washington. The volume of investments should be to $70 mln USD.
India: Medho Servo Drives announced the completion of a plant in Telangana, which will specialise in the production of electric trains, locomotives, metro cars and monorail.
