Orders soar for train manufacturer
French train manufacturing group Alstom, which has a traincare centre at Oxley,Wolverhampton, booked £6.1 billion orders in the half year to the end of September.
It now has a record orders backlog of £33bn.
Sales for the six months rose 130% £3.4bn and adjusted earnings before tax increased 58% to £247 million.
Chairman and chief executive Henri Poupart-Lafarge said: “Alstom achieved excellent results in this first half with breakthrough commercial successes, including new generation of very high-speed trains in France and metro system project in Canada. The new record-breaking backlog provides strong visibility on future sales and our outstanding operational performance reflects the solid projects execution."
Alstom was awarded projects in all regions, including an order for 100 next-generation very high speed trains in France, a driverless light metro system for Montreal, Pendolino trains and maintenance in Italy, a major rolling stock contract for Mumbai, an integrated metro system for Taipei, additional Citadis Dualis tram-trains in France, a long-term rolling stock and signalling maintenance contract for Sydney metro, a national on-board train control system in Norway, electric locomotives in Morocco and Citadis trams for Frankfurt.
