Kolkata: Titagarh Rail Systems and ABB India have signed an agreement to deliver propulsion systems for 25kV Metro projects.
The deal involves technology transfer for the Train Control and Monitoring System (TCMS) and a gradual transfer of manufacturing and co-production of Converters and Traction Motors.
The agreement will enable Titagarh to complete its TCMS portfolio for both traction systems under which Indian Metro systems operate.
The company has already set up its own TCMS laboratory in its design centre in Bengaluru.
Titagarh was already producing traction motors for locomotives and EMUs.
Under this agreement, Titagarh will progressively co-produce propulsion systems for Metro applications.
Incidentally, Titagarh was the first company in India to develop aluminium trains.
It now has state-of-the-art facilities to make both stainless and aluminium trains.
