Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. The division is headquartered in Berlin, Germany and has many regional offices, production and development facilities worldwide.
Bombardier Transportation produces a wide range of products including passenger rail vehicles, locomotives, bogies, propulsion and controls.
Laurent Troger is the president and chief operating officer of Bombardier Transportation. In January 2011, the company had 34,900 employees, 25,400 of them in Europe, and 60 manufacturing locations around the world.
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History
20th century
1970s: Formation and first orders
Bombardier Transportation's first order for mass transit rolling stock was in 1974 for the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) (Montreal transport authority) to build metro trains for the Montreal Metro.
The core of the Transportation group was formed with the purchase of Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) in 1975.
1980s: Expansion to the US, France and Belgium
With the 1975 purchase, Bombardier acquired MLW's LRC (Light, Rapid, Comfortable) tilting train design which it produced in the 1980s. In 1987, Bombardier bought the assets of US railcar manufacturers Budd and Pullman-Standard.
In the late 1980s Bombardier Transportation gained a manufacturing presence in Europe with the acquisition of a 45% share in BN Constructions Ferroviaires et Métalliques (whose principal site was in Brugge (Bruges), Belgium) in 1986, and the acquisition of ANF-Industries (whose principal site was in Crespin, France, near the Belgian border) in 1989.
1990s: Expansion to Mexico, Germany and the UK
In 1990, Procor Engineering Ltd. of Horbury near Wakefield, UK; a manufacturer of bodyshells, was acquired, and renamed Bombardier Prorail.
In 1991 the group purchased Urban Transportation Development Corporation (UTDC) from the Government of Ontario, which had previously acquired Hawker Siddeley Canada. MLW was sold to General Electric in 1988. GE ended railcar operations in Canada in 1993. Bombardier Transportation continues to operate the railcar operations in Thunder Bay.
In 1991 the grouping Bombardier Eurorail was formed consisting of the company's European subsidiaries; BN, ANF-Industrie, Prorail, and BWS. In 1992, the company acquired Mexico's largest railway rolling-stock manufacturer, Concarril, from the Mexican government.
In 1995 Waggonfabrik Talbot KG in Aachen, Germany, and in 1998, Deutsche Waggonbau AG (DWA), and Ateliers de Constructions Mécaniques de Vevey in Vevey, Switzerland, were acquired. DWA encompassed the major portion of the railway equipment industry of the former East Germany ("Kombinat Schienenfahrzeugbau"), and had its principal sites in Bautzen and Görlitz.
21st century
2000s: Western world's largest rail-equipment manufacturer
In 2001 Bombardier Transportation acquired Adtranz from DaimlerChrysler, and became by many measurements the Western world's largest rail-equipment manufacturer. The takeover was approved by the EU competition commission subject to a number of minor clauses including the divestment of Bombardier's stake in Adtranz/Stadler joint venture Stadler Pankow GmbH (sold to Stadler Rail), and an agreement to retain Kiepe as a supplier, and ELIN as a partner for a number of years after the acquisition. The addition of ADtranz made Bombardier a manufacturer of locomotives along with its existing product lines of passenger carriages, multiple-unit trains, and trams. With the acquisition of ADtranz, Bombardier also gained competence in the electrical propulsion components business.
After the Adtranz acquisition in 2001, Bombardier Transportation moved its core manufacturing strategy for Europe with a few legacy plants in North America for the smaller North American market:
- three sites for bogie manufacture were to be at Siegen in Germany, Derby (UK), and at the former ANF plant in Crespin (France).
- Vehicle body manufacturing was to be done at Bautzen and Görlitz (Germany), at the former Kalmar Verkstad plant (Sweden), at the Bombardier's Derby carriage plant, and the former BN Constructions Ferroviaries et Métalliques in Brugge.
- For final assembly, the company chose the former Waggonfabrik Talbot plant in Aachen and the former LEW Hennigsdorf (nr. Berlin) in Germany, the former Sorefame plant in Amadora, Portugal, and its plants in Derby (UK), Crespin (France), Brugge (Belgium), Kalmar (Sweden) and Pratteln, Switzerland.
Additionally a number of plants would have specialised manufacturing roles, including ?eská Lípa (Czech Republic) and the Pafawag facility in Poland which would supply parts and welded structures, and sites in Vienna (Austria) and Bautzen (Germany) which would specialise in light rail vehicle (LRV) manufacture whilst double deck trains for the German market would be manufactured in Görlitz. Other sites had their work mandate reduced in scope, or were closed.
In 2004 due to overcapacity in the European passenger train industry, Bombardier announced a restructuring program resulting in the closure of several plants; in the UK, the bogie production site at Pride Park, Derby, Bombardier Prorail (Wakefield), and a maintenance facility in Doncaster were closed; in mainland Europe, the plants at Pratteln, Kalmar and Amadora were to be closed, as well as plants in Ammendorf and Vetschau in eastern Germany which had been slated for closure in 2001.
2010s: Global operations and consolidations
In late 2012 Bombardier announced the closure of the Bombardier Talbot plant in Aachen, and a reduction in workforce in the transportation division of 1,200 people.
The company obtained two major orders in 2014: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) ordered an additional 365 rail cars from Bombardier in early 2014, to be assembled at Bombardier's plant in Plattsburgh, New York; Transport for London (United Kingdom) awarded a £1.3 billion contract to provide 65 Aventra trains for Crossrail, and included the building of a maintenance depot at Old Oak Common.
In May 2014 Bombardier extended its presence in Australia by purchasing a 100% stake in Rail Signalling Service (RSS), an Australian company focused on designing and constructing rail signalling solutions. In Sep 2014 the downsizing and eventual closure of the Maryborough factory was announced, the factory closed in Dec 2015.
In January 2015 the government of Hungary nationalised the loss-making and under-utilised Bombardier carriage works at Dunakeszi (Bombardier MÁV Kft., Hungarian), acquiring a 64.9% stake for $7.8 million.
In May 2015 the parent company Bombardier Inc. announced that it intended to split or spin-off Bombardier Transportation as a separate publicly traded company, while retaining control as the majority owner. Lutz Bertling, president and CEO of Bombardier Transportation stated that a primary motivation for the sell off was to increase the company's financial flexibility, for potential acquisitions or consolidations, allowing the company to better compete with an anticipated Chinese presence in the European market. An IPO was planned for late 2015. In late 2015 the public investor Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) acquired a 1.5 billion USD stake in Bombardier Transportation in the form of a bond/equity hybrid, with the shares returned to CDPQ dependent on the financial performance of the company. The investment initially representing a 30% stake - a valuation of $5 billion. The sale was required in part to continue the financing of the parent company's C-Series jet, a major cause of a $4.6billion loss for the parent company in 2015.
In late 2015 the National Railway Company of Belgium awarded a Bombardier/Alstom consortium a large EUR3.3 billion contract for 1,362 M7 doubledecker passenger rail vehicles, with a value to Bombardier of around EUR2,1 billion.
In August 2016 Bombardier opened a 6,000 square metres (65,000 sq ft) production facility in Isando, Johannesburg, South Africa. The site was specialised for the production of electric traction equipment (Mitrac).
In December 2016 citing a 'challenging market environment', Bombardier said that a 'strategic realignment' would put 'a strong focus on product standardisation and site specialisation in order to become more efficient and effective'. Up to 2,500 jobs are expected to go, with the German plants in Hennigsdorf, Görlitz and Bautzen reportedly most affected.
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Products and services
Metro rolling stock
Bombardier's standard metro vehicles are the mid-sized fully automated and driverless Bombardier Innovia Metro with the option for linear induction motor propulsion or a conventional rotary motor, and the high-capacity customizable Movia Metro, which is powered by conventional motors and can also be fully automated. In addition, Bombardier has produced many custom metro models not based on either model.
- Airtrain JFK: Innovia ART 200 (ART Mark II)
- Ankara Metro: Modified H-6
- BART: 775-car "Fleet of the Future"; contract for 410 cars (Type D and E cars) awarded May 2012
- Beijing Subway: Innovia ART 200 (ART Mark II) cars for the Airport Express line
- Berlin U-Bahn: H & HK train stocks
- Boston 'T': "#3 Red Line" cars (01800 series)
- Bucharest Metro: Movia 346 for lines 1,2 and 3
- Chicago 'L': 5000 series
- Delhi Metro: Broad-gauge Movia trainsets
- Detroit People Mover: Innovia ART 100 (ART Mark I)
- Docklands Light Railway: all rolling stock
- Gold Coast G: Link: Flexity 2 featuring low floors and having dedicated spaces for wheelchairs, prams and surfboards
- Helsinki Metro: M200
- Hong Kong MTR: A-Stock
- Crossrail, London: Aventra Class 345
- London Underground: 2009 Stock (Victoria line), S Stock (subsurface routes)
- Montreal Metro: MR-73, MPM-10 (project leader, with Alstom providing underfloor equipment)
- Mexico City Metro: NM-02
- New York City Subway: R62A, R110B, R142, and R179
- Rapid KL: Innovia ART 200 and 300 (ART Mark II and Mark III) cars for the Kelana Jaya Line
- Rotterdam Metro: Series 5300, Series 5400, Series 5500 (R Stock / RSG3), and 5600 Series (R Stock / SG3)
- Shanghai Metro: Movia 456
- Singapore MRT: Movia C951 for Downtown MRT Line
- Taipei Rapid Transit System: The extension line of Muzha Line system, which entered official operation on 4 July 2009. Innovia APM 256
- Toronto Subway and RT: T1 and TR (based on Movia) subway cars; S-series RT cars (Produced by UTDC).
- Vancouver Skytrain: Innovia ART 100, 200 and 300 (ART Mark I, Mark II and Mark III)
Monorails
- King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia:3.6 km INNOVIA Monorail 300
- Line 2 (East Express Monorail) São Paulo, Brazil: 24 km line INNOVIA Monorail 300
- Carowinds Monorail 1973 - system closed in 1994 and sold to Vidafel Mayan Palace Resort in Acapulco, Mexico but still not in use
- Six Flags Magic Mountain Metro 1971; closed 2001 with cars sold to Hersheypark and system dismantled in 2011
- Kings Island Action Zone monorail 1974; system removed in 1994
- Cal Expo monorail 1968
- Hersheypark monorail 1968; now as BlueCross monorail and acquired additional cars from Six Flags Magic Mountain
- King's Dominion 1975; dismantled in the 1990s when with Safari Village attraction was closed
- Minnesota Zoo's Northern Trail monorail 1979
- Miami MetroZoo 1984; system and cars acquired from 1984 Louisiana World Exposition
- Walt Disney World Resort 1989 - The Mark VI monorail still in operation today
- 1984 Louisiana World Exposition; dismantled and sold after fair ended to Miami MetroZoo
- Tampa International Airport monorail 1991; system built by Bombardier
- Jacksonville Skyway monorail 1997; system built by Bombardier
- Las Vegas Monorail 1995 - The Mark VI monorail still in operation today
Trams and light rail vehicles
- Cobra
- Eurotram
- Flexity Family
- Flexity Outlook Cityrunner
- Flexity Outlook (Toronto LRT car)
- Flexity Freedom (Toronto Eglinton Crosstown LRT and Waterloo Ion LRT)
- Flexity Classic
- Flexity Swift
- Flexity Link (tram-train) BOCLF70
- Flexity Berlin
- Flexity 2
- Flexity Outlook Cityrunner
- Incentro
- Metropolitan Area Express (Portland, Oregon) (MAX Light Rail) Type 1 LRV in Portland, Oregon (1984-1986)
- Variotram (unit used on Helsinki tram network only; the Variotram brand has since passed under ownership of Stadler Rail)
Locomotives
Bombardier's locomotives are mostly linked to their acquisition of Adtranz and Montreal Locomotive Works, as well as joint venture with Alstom. Via the acquisition of Adtranz, Bombardier was able to obtain some cornerstone technologies, such as the three-phase drive technology developed by plant in Mannheim, which is the worldwide center of competence for the development of locomotives.
- ALP-46 - electric locomotive
- ALP-45DP - electro-diesel locomotive
- EP10 - electric locomotive
- LRC diesel locomotives
- HHP-8 - electric locomotive
- IORE - electric locomotive
- TRAXX - diesel-electric locomotive
Other than the LRC, all other locomotives were based on European designs.
Passenger carriages
- BiLevel Coach - commuter rail
- MultiLevel Coach - commuter rail
- Double-deck Coach
- Horizon/Comet/Shoreliner coaches - commuter rail
- LRC coaches
- TwinDexx Double-Deck coach
Regular-speed multiple-unit trains
- Aventra - EMU, replacement for the Electrostar
- AGC (Autorail à grande capacité) - Dual mode or electric MU regional train
- Electrostar - EMU, (see also British Rail Classes 357, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379 and 387)
- Highliner - Double deck EMU commuter trains for Metra
- IC3 - EMU or DMU
- CP2000 (Portuguese Railways Class 3400)
- HHP-8 (in partnership with Alstom) for usage by Amtrak and MARC on the Northeast Corridor
- KRL i9000 - In cooperation with INKA (Industri Kereta Api) for KA Commuter Jabodetabek
- M7 - EMU commuter train for the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad
- MR-90 - EMU commuter train for the Réseau de transport métropolitain Deux-Montagnes line.
- Suburban Multiple Unit and Interurban Multiple Unit trains for Brisbane and South East Queensland
- RegioSwinger - tilting DMU
- Talent - DMU or EMU regional train
- Talent 2 - EMU regional train
- Talent 3 - EMU regional train
- Turbostar - DMU counterpart to the Electrostar, (see also British Rail Classes 168, 170, 171 and 172)
- VLocity DMU trains for V/Line
- Z 50000 "Le Francilien" - EMU commuter train for the Transilien H line
- Sprinter Lighttrain - 4 car EMU regional rail trainset for Nederlandse Spoorwegen
- Omneo - EMU for French operator SNCF
High-speed trains
- Acela Express (leader of a project in which Alstom is a participant)
- InterCityExpress (participant in a Siemens-led project)
- JetTrain (experimental)
- Regina
- Voyager, Super Voyager and Meridian diesel-electric multiple units
- Zefiro, trainsets built for the Chinese market, which have a maximum speed of 380 kilometres per hour (240 mph)
- AVE S-102 (Talgo-350) and Alvia S-130 (Talgo 250) with Talgo.
People movers
- Guided Light Transit (GLT)
- Bombardier Innovia
Bombardier also supplies propulsion units, train-control systems, bogies, and other parts, and maintains train fleets.
Services
In addition to manufacturing a wide variety of passenger rail vehicles and locomotives, Bombardier Transportation provides services for commuter train providers.
- Maintenance: Bombardier Transportation has several maintenance contracts for the servicing of commuter trains. This includes fuelling, storage, train washing and upkeep. Some of its key clients are GO Transit, MARC Train, Réseau de transport métropolitain, FrontRunner and Metrolink.
- Train operation: Bombardier Transportation operates a number of commuter and light rail systems under contract with various transit agencies. It has been the operator for six of the seven GO Transit commuter train lines in Ontario since 2008. As of February 2015, It now operates all GO Transit rail train lines. In 2015, it also began the operation of the Union Pearson Express airport link in Toronto. Other systems operated by Bombardier include SunRail, MARC Train, Sprinter and Coaster, and the River Line. The company also operates a number of airport people-mover systems, typically systems it built, such as the AirTrain JFK and AirTrain Newark in New York City under contract with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
- From 2012/2013, the Savli factory (India) is also planned to assemble Electro-Motive Diesel products for Asian customers.
- On November 2016, Bombardier Transportation signed an eight-year contract worth of $331 million to supply operating and maintaining services with Réseau de transport métropolitain's six commuter rail lines in Montreal.
Facilities
Bombardier Transportation has production facilities or product development in:
- Africa:
- South Africa: Traction converter equipment factory at Isando, opened 2016.
- Asia:
- India: Movia-car manufacturing and electrical component manufacture in Savli, Vadodara, Gujarat.
- People's Republic of China: Joint ventures with native companies Bombardier Sifang-Power (Qingdao) transportation Ltd., Changchun Bombardier railway vehicles Co. Ltd., Bombardier CPC propulsion systems Ltd..
- Thailand: BTS Skytrain, Bangkok
- Europe:
- Austria: Sites include Bombardier Wien Schienenfahrzeuge (former Lohner-Werke)
- Belgium: Passenger vehicles, at former BN Constructions Ferroviaries et Métalliques plant
- Czech Republic: freight rolling stock
- Denmark: Continues production of IC3 "flexiliner" passenger multiple units.
- France: Public transport - mass transit, trolleybuses, metros, at former ANF Industrie plant
- Germany: Major facilities for production of mass transit, regional, and high speed passenger trains. Control systems. Diesel and electric locomotive manufacture. Sites include :
- Former LEW Hennigsdorf nr. Berlin
- Former Henschel & Son locomotive works in Kassel
- Former ABB Werk-Sued Mannheim - rail vehicle drive and control systems; passenger and signalling systems; inductive charging (PRIMOVE); as well as project management, sales and fleet management/), and others.
- Former Waggonbau Görlitz plant producing Double-deck Coaches
- Hungary
- Italy: Production site for FS Class E.464 at former Tecnomasio plant in Vado Ligure
- Norway: Servicing of Adtranz products NSB Class 73 and GMB Class 71 built at former Adtranz factory in Strømmen (see Strømmens Værksted), also manufactures NSB Class 93
- Poland: (Bombardier Transportation Polska), includes manufacturing site in Wroc?aw (former Pafawag factory), Katowice, ?ód? and Warsaw.
- Romania: Underground trains in Bucharest, mass transport.
- Spain: Trapagaran
- Sweden: Production, engineering, development Also manufactures Regina EMUs.
- Switzerland: Research and design - propulsion and bogies, also manufacture of high capacity (double decker) passenger vehicles. Sites include former Ateliers de Constructions Mécaniques de Vevey in Villeneuve
- United Kingdom: Derby Litchurch Lane Works - Manufacturing Turbostar, Electrostar and Aventra passenger multiple units and London Underground Stock, Such as, the S stock, 2009 Stock, New Tube for London.
- North America:
- Canada: Engineering facilities in Saint-Bruno, Quebec and Millhaven, Ontario (former Urban Transportation Development Corporation facility); manufacturing facilities in Thunder Bay, Ontario (Fort William - former Canadian Car and Foundry Can-Car Rail plant) and La Pocatière (former Moto-Ski plant)
- Mexico: Sahagun (former Concarril factory) - engineering and production site.
- United States: Manufacturing Plattsburgh, New York and former Adtranz (originally Westinghouse Electric) facility in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.
- Oceania:
- Australia: Bombardier Transportation Australia Ltd - Dandenong, Melbourne, Victoria and Milton, Brisbane, Queensland
- South America:
- Brazil: Monorail manufacturing facility in Hortolandia São Paulo state.
Legal issues
Deutsche Bahn
In early 2013, Deutsche Bahn announced that it was suing Bombardier for EUR350 million because of some serious defects in trains used on the suburban S-Bahn rail network in Berlin. This was in addition to the EUR160 million it was asking for from Bombardier because of problems with more than 200 regional trains operating in southern Germany and problems with the brakes in regional and local trains in Munich. The matter was settled out of court in March 2015. Lutz Bertling, head of Bombardier's transportation division at the time, confirmed the two firms had come to an agreement, saying: "The settlement is a positive signal for our future cooperation."
Everline
In January 2015, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported that South Korea's Special Investigation Unit for anti-corruption produced a report accusing Bombardier Transportation of corruption in the pursuit of the 2004 contract to build an 18 km elevated Light Rapid Transit (LRT) rail system called the Everline connecting the Giheung Station on the Bundang (Yellow Line) of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway system to a large amusement park named Everland, via Yongin, the 12th largest city in South Korea, about 30 km from central Seoul.
The investigation report alleges that Bombardier provided gifts and trips to Canada for civil servants and politicians involved in the contract decision, which was based on revenue expected from an inflated estimate of 180,000 passengers per day using the service. It also alleges that Bombardier created a $2-million slush fund for the Canadian citizen Kim Hak-Pil, a high-ranking Bombardier executive in South Korea. Bombardier has consistently denied the corruption allegations, stating that "They were not pleasure trips. There is a need to convince the people that our technology works well.... If it had been corruption, they would have charged us." The statute of limitations has now expired, due to lack of evidence according to Bombardier.
Everline operation has been financially troubled since construction was completed in 2010. The system remained dormant until service began in 2013 while the line owner successfully negotiated with the city of Yongin a minimum revenue guarantee of 29.5 billion KRW per year regardless of passenger load. This is said to be a serious burden for the city because ridership is reported to have risen to only about 20,000 passengers per day on the 30 carriages, or about a quarter of the maximum possible capacity of the fleet in a 12-hour day. A reason suggested for this is the fare of 1100 KRW (about US$1 in 2015); it is impossible to pay for Everline trips via a transfer surcharge on a connecting subway ticket. A 2014 web page of a Seoul tour service retailer makes no mention of the Everline among the suggested modes of bus transport between Seoul and Everland. A lawyer who filed legal action on behalf of the citizens of Yongin is reported to have provided details about Bombardier's pursuit of the contract. He said that "between 2003 and 2005, Bombardier funded three luxurious trips to Canada to each of 37 people" including 18 Yongin city councillors on so-called "LRT field trips".
Toronto Transit Commission
On 16 October 2015, the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) announced that it has asked its board to consider legal action against Bombardier. TTC staff is recommending that the TTC board "commence legal action, or make a claim allowed for already in the contract, of $50 million for late delivery" against Bombardier. Bombardier had committed to delivering 67 custom-built Flexity Outlook streetcars to the TTC by October 2015 for its streetcar system, but only 10 were in service at the time.
On 28 October 2015, the TTC board voted in favour of a lawsuit against Bombardier "for at least $50 million to recoup lost costs", according to Chair Josh Colle, because of the company's failure to deliver the additional new streetcars.
See also
Competitors:
- Alstom Transport
- CAF
- CRRC Corporation
- Hitachi Rail
- Hyundai Rotem
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company
- Nippon Sharyo
- Siemens Mobility
- Stadler Rail
- Talgo
References
Literature
- "Bombardier Transportation - A Global Transportation Leader" (PDF), Japan Railway & Transport Review (42): 17-25, December 2005
External links
- Bombardier Transportation
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