Bombardier Thunder Bay Looks Forward To The Next 20 Years
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Bombardier Thunder Bay Looks Forward To The Next 20 Years

 

by Scott A. Sumner

 On site for the recent celebrations at Bombardier Thunder Bay was  Raymond Bachant, President Bombardier Transportation North America.  He toured the plant, spoke at the plaque ceremony and answered  questions from the media.

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“ The light rail vehicle is a long-term project for us. We follow the  readiness of city and their infrastructure and are doing 4  prototypes, which we will test and then go into production. This will  be a long-term project.”   “  The plant has been here for 100 years with more or less 5  different phases of 20 years in this factory. We will do 20 years at  a time. Thunder Bay is part of our portfolio of 45 manufacturing  plants in transportation around the world not counting our aerospace  division.”   “  There has been quite an increase  in the volume of business here  thanks to the Ontario government and the city of Toronto. We have  been able to increase the required work force in Thunder Bay to 1300  and are still hiring and training. We  have also invested over $20  million in this plant over the last five years.”    “  It is exciting and we hope to build on this good foundation. At  Bombardier transportation we recently secured additional business. We  have signed New York City for 300 Metro and also 410 Metro for the  San Francisco Bay area. In North America we have a record backlog  volume of $5.8 billion.”



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