PJSC Kriukov Car Building Works (KCBW, Kremenchuk, Poltava region) jointly with Japanese companies will start the modernization of railcars for Kyiv Metropoliten in 2012, the board chairman of the plant, Yevhen Khvorost, has told reporters.
According to him, three Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi and Itochu, will take part in the project.
Those railcars that work on direct current will be reequipped with alternating current engines.
"Due to this the energy saving will be about 30%," Khvorost said.
He added that it is planned to modernize about 200 railcars, but the number of modernized railcars in 2012 would depend on the terms for the supply of components from the Japanese partners.
The Kriukov plant, which is the CIS’s only manufacturer of both passenger carriages and freight wagons, produces freight wagons (open wagons, tankers, hopper wagons, and high-sided wagons), as well as passenger carriages, bogies for freight wagons, wheel pairs, and spare parts for subway carriages, escalators, containers, and road equipment.
Its passenger carriages are produced on order for national railways administration Ukrzaliznytsia.
Its produce is exported to over 20 countries.
