This article is about Transmashholding, for other russian companies bearing the transmash name see the disambiguation page: Transmash

CJSC Transmashholding is the largest manufacturer of locomotive

Locomotive

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s and rail equipment in Russia

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, with annual sales of US$3.2 billion and a workforce of 55,000 people in 2008. The company includes 14 engineering and production sites in Russia and one production and engineering site in Germany

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Overview

CJSC Transmashholding was established in 2002. Two major shareholders are OJSC HC Kuzbassrazrezugol and TransGroup AC, the leading Russian railway operator. Andrey Bokarev is the Chairman of the Board and Andrey Andreev is the General Director.

The company actively works with JSC Russian Railways, the Ministry of Transportation of the Russian Federation, and other Russian Federation ministries, including Ministry of Industry and Power, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, and Ministry of Finance.

Russia-based companies

The company structure includes several major industrial plants in Russia:

• Novocherkasskiy Electrovozostroitelniy Plant (NEVZ) Novocherkassk
  Novocherkassk
  Novocherkassk is a city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Tuzlov River and on the Aksay River. Population: 169,039 ; 170,822 ; 178,000 ; 123,000 ; 81,000 ; 52,000 ....
  
   Electric Locomotive Plant / Новочеркасский электровозостроительный завод ; is the largest electric locomotive producer in Russia.
• Bryanskiy Machine-building Plant / Bryansk
  Bryansk
  Bryansk is a city and the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia, located southwest of Moscow. Population: -History:The first written mention of Bryansk was in 1146, in the Hypatian Codex, as Debryansk...
  
   Engineering Plant / Брянский машиностроительный завод ; is Russia's largest manufacturer of diesel shunters, also produces freight wagons and marine diesel engines.
• Kolomensky Zavod Kolomensky Plant / Коломенский завод ; produces diesel locomotives and diesel engines and generators.
• Demikhovsky Machine-building Plant / Демиховский машиностроительный завод ; major producer of electric multiple units.
• Metrovagonmach / Метровагонмаш ; produces urban (metro) electrical multiple units and railcars, also trucks.
• Penzadieselmach / «Пензадизельмаш ; produces diesel and gas generator sets, located in Penza
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• Bezhitskiy Staleliteiniy Plant Bezhitsk Steel Foundry / Бежицкий сталелитейный завод ; produces steel castings including coupling parts.
• Oktyabrskiy Electrovagonoremontniy Plant Oktyabrsky
  Oktyabrskaya Railway
  The broad gauge Oktyabrskaya Railway or October Railway , which forms part of RZD, is the oldest railway in Russia, located in the north-west of the country. It stretches from Moscow's Leningrad Terminal in the south to Murmansk beyond the Arctic Circle in the north. The total length of the lines...
  
   Electric Railway Car Repair Plant / Октябрьский электровагоноремонтный завод ; performs modernisation, repair and overhaul of passenger rolling stock.
• Tsentrosvarmash / Центросвармаш ; Russia's largest producer of welded products including bogies, railway vehicle superstructure, bridges and mining equipment.
• Transconverter / Трансконвертер ; Joint venture with Siemens AG
  Siemens AG
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   producing electric supplies for railway vehicles.

• KMT Industrial group / Производственная фирма «КМТ» ; designs and manufacturers passenger vehicle equipment.
• Tverskoy Vagonostroitelniy Zarod (TVZ) Tver
  Tver
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   Carriage Works / Тверской вагоностроительный завод (25%) ; develops and produces locomotive hauled passenger vehicles.
• VELNII, (ВЭлНИИ Всероссийский научно-исследовательский и проектно-конструкторский институт электровозостроения)Electric locomotive design company, acquired 2009.

Bombardier transportation

On May 25, 2007, in Sochi, Russia, Bombardier and Transmasholding signed an agreement to jointly establish an engineering center.

In May 2008, Bombardier

Bombardier Transportation

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 and TMH signed an agreement to form a joint company for the production of locomotives. The equal share companies were organised under the previously formed Bombardier Transportation Transmashholding AG, one as an engineering design centre: Transmashholding Bombardier Transportation (Engineering) Rus and another for the manufacturing of inverter drives (based on Bombardier's MITRAC technology) used in electric locomotives: Transmashholding Bombardier Transportation (Industrial) Rus.

Knorr-Bremse

In April 2007, Knorr-Bremse AG and Transmashholding agreed to create a Russian joint venture to manufacture, sell and service rail vehicle braking systems in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States

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Alstom

In December 2007, ALSTOM

Alstom

Alstom is a large multinational conglomerate which holds interests in the power generation and transport markets. According to the company website, in the years 2010-2011 Alstom had annual sales of over €20.9 billion, and employed more than 85,000 people in 70 countries. Alstom's headquarters are...

 and Transmasholding signed a cooperation agreement that would lead to the formation of joint ventures for the production of railway components in Russia. In October 2008 the partnership was further extended by the formation of a 51:49 joint venture for the production of double decker coaches TMH-Alstom DV. This intent was ratified on March 31, 2009, with Alstom providing ongoing technical expertise for the modernisation of TMH's production sites, and the development of new locomotive platforms; with TMH undertaking more than 75% of the manufacturing. At the same time Alstom took a 25(+1)% stake in TMH's capital holding company.

Siemens

Transconverter was formed as a joint venture with Siemens in April 2005 for the production of electrical equipment (high voltage static converters).

Former subsidiaries

• Fahrzeugtechnik Dessau AG (Fahrzeugtechnik Dessau ) was part of Transmashholding from 2006 to 2008 and was taken over by the Romanian CTF at the end of 2008.

Products

Transmasholding manufactures diesel-locomotive shunters, main-line and electric industrial locomotives, passenger and freight cars, electric train cars, locomotive and marine diesels, car castings and other products.

The company has provided railcars to Warsaw Metro

Warsaw Metro

The Warsaw Metro is a rapid transit system serving the city of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. It consists of a single north-south line that links central Warsaw with its densely populated northern and southern suburbs. The first section was opened in 1995, then gradually extended until it...

 and Baku Metro

Baku Metro

Baku Metro is a rapid transit system serving Baku the capital of Azerbaijan. First opened on November 6, 1967, during the time of the Soviet Union, it has the features found in most other ex-Soviet systems, including very deep central stations, and exquisite decorations that blend traditional...

, among others.

External links

• Transmasholding website
• Interview with TMH Chairman Dmitry Komissarov Interview presented by Chris Jackson concerning the first five years of the company from 2002 onwards. railwaygazette.com