Brazil Progress Rail EMD Plant

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ALBERTVILLE, Ala., July 25, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Progress Rail Services, a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., today announced the company's plans to locate a locomotive manufacturing facility in Sete Lagoas, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, to serve the South American diesel-electric locomotive market. Progress Rail has agreed to open the facility to better serve its Brazilian and South American customers, and will operate the facility through its subsidiary, MGE Equipamentos e Servicos Ferroviarios Ltda. (MGE). Progress Rail anticipates this project could create up to 600 jobs when at full capacity.

Brazil is getting some of the hand-me down equipment cast off from London. Sounds like a winner...

Bright Star wrote:Brazil is getting some of the hand-me down equipment cast off from London. Sounds like a winner...

Some of it will need to go to Muncie, unless CAT is going to buy new machinery. Muncie hasn't been capable of building Alternators and Traction Motors, London had been supplying all other EMD production sites.

Traction alternators have been built at LaGrange for years. Some portion of the traction motor comes from Mexico and was completed at London. Combos were built up at yet another location.

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From International Railway Journal:

International Railway Journal wrote:PROGRESS Rail subsidiary EMD began locomotive assembly in Brazil at the end of May with the launch of production at its plant in Sete Lagoas in the state of Minas Gerais.
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Production at Sete Lagoas is being supported by other Progress Rail units in São Paulo state. The EMD 16-710-G3 engines are being produced in Diadema, and are undergoing final tests, while bogies are being assembled in Hortolandia.

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