MOVING FAST As part of the world’s only manufacturer of both planes and trains, Bombardier Transportation Italy SpA has a strong position on the domestic market, where it is currently the leading producer of electric locomotives. Barbara Rossi reports.
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ombardier Transportation Italy is part of the Montreal-headquartered Bombardier Group, which is active in both aerospace and transportation. In fact, the group can offer the world’s most comprehensive aircraft portfolio, as well as being a global leader in the rail industry. In aerospace it ranks at number one with regard to business and regional aircrafts, while in transportation it has 63 production and engineering sites in 26 116 Industry Europe
countries, plus 19 service centres across the world. Its extensive portfolio of mobility solutions benefits from the crossover between the two sectors in which it operates. As the name suggests, Bombardier Transportation Italy is part of the transportation division of the group, which offers a full spectrum of rail solutions, including complete trains, sub-systems, maintenance services, system integration and signalling.
The Italian company has an outstanding level of know-how in the high- and very high-speed sectors and operates from two engineering and manufacturing sites in Italy (alongside its offices in Rome and Palermo). These two operational sites are based in Vado Ligure, near Savona, in the Liguria region of north-west Italy and Rome. The Rome site is an engineering centre, in which a wide range of control
