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Ltd. and at the end of 2005 the name of the company was changed to Gunnebo
India Ltd. The employee strength today stands at over 806 people spread across 14
branch offices located in all major towns and cities across India. It has three plants –
the oldest at Mazagaon in Mumbai, one at Ambattur near Chennai in the southern
state of Tamilnadu, and the new plant at Halol in Gujarat.
Railway coaches and wagons
Manufacture of railway coaches
Manufacture of passenger coaches in India began in 1955 with the establishment
of the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Perambur located in the state of Tamilnadu
in South India. ICF was set up with the collaboration of the Swiss Car and Elevator
Manufacturing Company of Schlieren, Switzerland. ICF, over the decades became
very successful in producing the signature integral design (under-frames, sidewalls,
and roof integrated to form a single tube structure) anti-telescopic coaches of
Indian Railways, in many different configurations. It now has a capacity of 1 000
coaches a year, maintains production capability for 170 different kinds of coaches,
and has thus far manufactured over 35 000 coaches for the Indian Railways.
In addition to coaches, ICF also produces diesel railcars, EMUs (Electrical Multiple
Units), DMUs (Diesel Multiple Units) and special purpose rail vehicles such as track
recording vehicles and overhead equipment monitoring vehicles. It has also exported
coaches to many countries including Myanmar, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand,
Tanzania, Philippines and Vietnam.
Manufacture of railway wagons
Railway wagons are being manufactured in India for several decades both by public
and private sector companies. Indian Railways purchase wagons from four public
companies and six private sector companies. Indian Railways runs about 11 000
trains everyday including 7 000 passenger trains over a route length of over 63 000
km. Owning over 222 000 freight wagons, the Indian Railways buys a large number
of wagons every year, both for capacity expansion and replacing old assets. In 2007,
Indian Railways procured 10 200 wagons of various kinds. 23
23) Reference has been made to Business Knowledge Resource Online (22nd July 2008). Also refer Viswanath
(13th March 2008)
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