Alstom La Rochelle

PANORAMA - FRANCE
Alstom La Rochelle
Centre of excellence for high and very high
speed
Asltom’s Aytré-La Rochelle site keeps alive a railway tradition that can be
traced back to 1918. A major customer for local small and medium-sized
companies, the site has also developed partnerships with the University
and the city’s leading engineering school. Its size and employee numbers
make it the leading industrial site in the department of Charentes and the
second largest in the Poitou-Charentes region.
The site is Alstom Transport’s global Centre of Product Excellence for the
design of high and very high speed trains. Since the first TGVTM trainset,
in 1978, it has designed all of the 650 very high speed trains sold by
Alstom across the world. The world rail speed record-setting V150
trainset (574.8 kph on 3 April 2007) was designed and manufactured on
the site. La Rochelle is currently developing the prototype for a 4th
generation “TGV”: the AGV (Automotrice Grande Vitesse).
Also a Centre of Excellence for the manufacture of rolling stock, Alstom
La Rochelle currently produces the double-deck TGV Duplex trailers and
trainsets for the CitadisTM tramway, of which almost 1,000 have been
bought by 25 cities across the world.
> Key details
1,084 employees: 346 plant employees; 436 administrative staff and
technicians; 302 engineers and executives
Two entities: a design and production centre (24 hectares), a testing centre (6.6
hectares; 2 static and 2 dynamic test tracks). In addition, Alstom La Rochelle
possesses a climatic testing chamber.
Acoustic and aerodynamic expertise centre for Alstom Transport.
Production capacity: TGV => 1.5 to 2 trainsets a month - 24 months between
order and delivery; AGV => 1 trainset a month – under development; Tramways
=> 10 to 12 trainsets a month - 15 to 24 months between order and delivery
Sales: 570 million euros (06/07 financial year)
La Rochelle is one of the 11 Centres of
Excellence of Alstom in France
The record-setting V150 trainset, designed
and manufactured at La Rochelle
> Site news
TGV Duplex: 80 trainsets for the SNCF;
AGV: development of the prototype
Tramways for Algiers (34 trainsets) Toulouse (18 trainsets), Orleans (21
trainsets) Reims (18 trainsets), and Dublin (18 trainsets)
The Citadis tramway for Tunis in finishing
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