Bombardier Transportation México
Founded | April 14, 1952 freight cars, locomotives and passenger rail cars (including subway/metro cars and light rail vehicles) |
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Number of employees | 3,000 (1991)[3] |
Bombardier Transportation México is a subsidiary company of Bombardier Transportation located in Ciudad Sahagún, Mexico.[4]
Formed in 1952
The
Passenger railway cars built by Concarril for
Successors
In spring 1992, the company was acquired from the Mexican government by
In 1998,
Toronto contract
Bombardier won contracts for two of the largest rail vehicle contracts in North America, 204
The Financial Post reported, in January 2015, that Bombardier's Thunder Bay plant blamed layoffs on Bombardier Ciudad Sahagún's delays in delivery.[18] This in part resulted in defects to the vehicles and delays in final delivery, leading to a C$50 million lawsuit filed by the Toronto Transit Commission, the purchaser of the vehicles.[19][20]
Bombardier Ciudad Sahagun plant
The plant built a series of
References
- ^ Bombardier. March 2017. Archived(PDF) from the original on December 13, 2018. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
- ^ Villaseñor, Víctor Manuel. Memorias de un Hombre de Izquierda, vol-2, p. 201
- ^ a b c d e "Company News: Mexican Unit To Bombardier". The New York Times. Associated Press. April 10, 1992. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ ISBN 0-7106-0951-5.
- ^ ISBN 9780773586741. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ a b c Sebree, Mac; and the PRN staff (August 1992). "Industry [in transit news section]" (PDF). Pacific RailNews. Glendale, CA (US): Interurban Press. p. 48. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 15, 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ Prather, C.R. (October 1984). "Mexican Railroads [regular news section]" (PDF). Pacific RailNews. Glendale, CA (US): Interurban Press. p. 26. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 15, 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ Light Rail & Modern Tramway, August 1992, pp. 218–219. UK: Ian Allan Publishing.
- ^ Prather, C.R. (July 1989). "Mexican Railroads [regular news section]" (PDF). Pacific RailNews. Glendale, CA (US): Interurban Press. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 15, 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ a b May, Jack (1994). "Mexico Says Sí to LRT: Light Rail South of the Border". 1994 Light Rail Annual & User's Guide, p. 7. Pasadena, CA (US): Pentrex. ISSN 0160-6913.
- ^ "Mexico boosting export efforts". The Kerrville Times. Kerrville, Texas. Associated Press. September 10, 1990. p. 2. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
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Ben Spurr, Edward Keenan, Marco Chown Oved, Jayme Poisson, Marina Jimenez, David Rider (2017-05-05). "Not in service". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2018-07-06. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
Most notably, workers at the Sahagún plant were failing at what one official calls the "black art" of welding.
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"Bombardier Transportation FactSheet Sahagun Mexico" (PDF). Bombardier. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ISBN 978-0-7106-2335-5.
- Portland Business Journal. December 7, 2004. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ Bombardier. December 7, 2004. Archivedfrom the original on September 20, 2016. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
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John Lorinc (2016-05-03). "Bombardier's Mexico problem". Spacing. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
Bombardier's explanation for the fiasco is that components for the so-called Flexity vehicle, made on a sub-assembly line in a giant factory in Sahagún, Mexico, were inadequate, and thus held up the manufacturing process in Thunder Bay.
- ^ Peter Kuitenbrouwer (2015-01-05). "Bombardier's Thunder Bay plant hit with supply chain woes". Financial Post. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
All is not well at this facility. Bombardier did not disclose it to a visitor, but the company is laying off 49 people here in December and January. Upon later inquiry, the company confirmed that it cannot keep these workers busy because of challenges getting parts to the plant from the Bombardier factory in Ciudad Sahagún, near Mexico City, among other places.
- ^ Kuitenbrouwer, Peter (January 5, 2015). "Bombardier's Thunder Bay plant hit with supply chain woes". Financial Post. Postmedia Network Inc. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
- ^ Vantuono, William C. (October 30, 2015). "TTC to Bombardier: See you in court". Railway Age. Simmons-Boardman Publishing Inc. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
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Douglas John Bowen (2012-09-19). "Bombardier, EMD team up to export locomotives". Railway Age. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
The joint venture builds upon a similar collaboration between both companies at Bombardier's manufacturing site in Ciudad Sahagún, Mexico. Bombardier will manufacture certain components, including underframes and bogies, and assemble the EMD locomotives at its Savli, Gujarat facility in India.
- ^ "Bombardier to supply new Guadalajara fleet". Railway Gazette International. Mexico. 2016-01-05. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
According to the state government, 13 companies responded to the call for tenders where the winning bid of 752⋅2m pesos represents a saving of 24% on the expected cost.
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"Bombardier increasing light rail capacity in Guadalajara". Canadian Manufacturing. 2017-03-28. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
The TEG-15 LRV is part of Bombardier's Mexican light rail product line, with more than 100 trains in service in Mexico's three largest cities: Guadalajara, Monterrey and Mexico City. The project is being managed by teams working out of Bombardier's Ciudad Sahagún facility in the State of Hidalgo.
See also
- Frederic Tomesco, Brendan Case (2013-07-03). "Bombardier Weighs Mexico Rail Bids as Europe Market Slows". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
External links
Media related to Concarril at Wikimedia Commons