On 29 June, Patrick Kron, Chairman and CEO of Alstom, and Andreï Bokarev, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Transmashholding (TMH), signed a contract for the design and manufacturing in Russia of key components for the EP20...

The first stone of the future electric locomotive manufacturing site of Alstom-TMH and Kazakh Railways (KTZ) in Astana was placed on 26 June during a ceremony whose participants included Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov.

On 24 June 2010, Alstom inaugurated a new production facility for steam turbines, gas turbines, large turbo-generators and related equipment for the North American fossil fuel and nuclear power generation market. It will also...

Stockholmståg, the company operating commuter trains in the greater Stockholm area, in Sweden, has awarded Alstom Transport with a maintenance contract worth €107 million over a five-year period, for the maintenance of a fleet of...

Patrick Kron, Chairman and CEO of Alstom, Andrey Bokarev, Chairman of Transmashholding and Askar Mamine, Chairman of Kazakh Railways (KTZ) signed a agreement for the creation of a joint venture company to produce electric...

Since the introduction of Alstom’s ‘advanced-class’ gas turbines in 1995 - GT24 for the 60 Hz market and the GT26 for the 50 Hz market- more than 100 engines have been fired in KA24/KA26 combined-cycle power plants (CCPP)...

Alstom has signed two long-term service agreements with GDF SUEZ Group Companies, worth about €130 million for power plants in Thailand and Chile.

Alstom, a global leader in power generation, today announces the market introduction of its 3MW ECO 110 wind turbine, one of the most powerful onshore wind turbines in the world, specifically designed to ensure the highest energy...

Alstom is opening a new service and maintenance centre located in Braunschweig, Germany. Alstom will bring new life to the halls of Braunschweig´s former locomotive maintenance site during the coming months—in order to respond to...

Alstom unveils a new model of Very High Speed train at the international railway exhibition EXPO Ferroviaria in Turin, Italy. The new platform is added to an already extensive portfolio, ranging from the tilting High Speed trains...

MARS, the concession-holder for the Reims MARS tramway and the Manufacturing Consortium which is run by Alstom, have just inaugurated the tramway maintenance centre for the Greater Reims urban area. The event was held in the...

On 26 May, the first two renovated coaches of the Budapest Metro left Alstom Transport’s site in Reichshoffen. After a 5-day trip across Germany, Austria, Hungary and then the Carpathian mountains in Romania, the coaches will be...

Today the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin TD carried out the official inauguration of the new Aghada Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP) near Cork in Ireland.

Alstom is to retrofit two 300 MW steam turbine units at the Manzanillo power plant in Mexico, confirming the company’s leadership position in the Mexican retrofit market.

Alstom, a global leader in power generation, today held a ceremony with officials of the Amarillo Economic Development Corporation and others at the state, county, and local level to commemorate the construction of their 115,000...

Alstom today announces it is investing up to $55 million in BrightSource Energy Inc., with an equity stake that positions Alstom as one of the main shareholders in the company.

On May 15, 2010, Alstom launched the first Citadis tramway tests in Algiers—in the presence of Amar Tou, the Algerian Minister of Transport. The test track in Bordj El Kiffan (in the suburbs of the Algerian capital) is nearly 2...

Alstom inaugurated a new train maintenance centre in Edge Hill, Liverpool, in the presence of Councillor Mike Storey CBE, Lord Mayor of Liverpool. The creation of the facility recognises the importance of the Liverpool site in...

Equipment to be indigenously manufactured at Alstom’s hydro facility in Vadodara reinforces the leadership position of Alstom Hydro* in India

The second of four high speed Allegro trains, which will serve the Helsinki-St Petersburg line, arrived in the port of Helsinki by ship on 30 April. It was manufactured at Alstom’s Savigliano site, and left the Italian port of...

The Stockholm public transports authorities SL have placed a €102 million order with Alstom for 12 new Coradia Nordic suburban trains. These trains will be used on the Stockholm-Uppsala line.

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Network Rail, the main operator of rail infrastructure in the United Kingdom, has awarded Signalling Solutions Ltd, a joint venture equally held by Alstom Transport and Balfour Beatty Rail, a contract worth some €40 million to...

Alstom today announces the signing of a contract with Nareva Holding, subsidiary of ONA, the leading Moroccan industrial and financial group, for a new wind farm in Akhfenir, in the Kingdom of Morocco.

Alstom has signed a contract worth around €40 million with the Rivers State Government of Nigeria to deliver a GT13E2 gas turbine to the Port Harcourt power plant located in Rivers State, Nigeria.