ICF Plans to chug into metro market

ICF Plans to chug into metro market

Integral Coach Factory plans to chug into Metro market

The country’s leading railway coach manufacturers, the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) here, is eyeing the growing Metro train market in India and is in touch with the Union Urban Development Ministry and states.

Chennai: ICF General Manager S Mani said the coach manufacturer was currently making coaches for the Kolkata Metro and that they wanted to cater to others also after that. Many Indian states including Uttar Pradesh are mulling new Metro train routes even as people from Tier II cities like Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu have been seeking Metro service. 

Addressing a press meet organised to highlight ICF’s performance for the year 2016-17, Mani, however, did not quantify the size of the domestic Metro train market. 

LC Trivedi, Chief Mechanical Engineer, ICF, said while the cost of a single Metro coach globally was about Rs 10-11 crore, ICF was trying to cut it by 40 per cent. The focus was on making the coaches indigenous by using locally procured material for manufacture, he said. 

Mani said ICF was also focussing on a high speed train, called Train 18 which could clock 160 km/ph, and is likely to be rolled out next March.

Source:DTNEXT