Wagon Pars

Wagon Pars
Industry Rail engineering
Founded 1974
Headquarters Arak, Iran
Products Rail vehicles
Website wagonpars.com

Wagon Pars is an Iranian train manufacturing company established in 1974,[1] in Arak, Iran.[2]

Products include locomotives, trains, metros, freight and fuel wagons, and equipment for passenger boarding of aircraft.[1]

History

AD43C locomotive production at Wagon Pars

The organisation began rolling stock manufacturing in 1984,[3] in 1999 the factory reached an agreement with GEC-Alstom to produce under license the AD43C mainline locomotives.[4][5][6]

In 2007 the company manufactured Iran's first express train, a four coach, 252 passenger, 160 km/hr train.[7] In 2009 the company had a production capacity of 1800 vehicles per annum, and was operating at 20% of that figure.[3]

In the first decade of the 21st century the company received export orders for Cuba, including a 60 billion rial order for 550 freight wagons,[8] (completed Sept. 2009[9]) and 200 passenger vehicles[10] Also in 2009 the company obtained a €80 million contract with Vietnam Railways for the supply of 200 passenger vehicles - 40 of which would be produced by Wagon Pars, the remainder assembled in Vietnam as part of a technology transfer agreement.[11]

In 2009 and 2010 workers at the Wagon Pars factory staged protests due to lack of payment of wages; the company is thought to be in financial difficulties due to mismanagement. The acquisition by Iran Khodro during the 2005-2010 privatisation of Iranian industries is claimed to have contributed to the company's poor financial state.[12]

In May 2010 the company announced it was to help set up a rolling stock factory in Syria. The plant is to have a production capacity of 300 wagons, and also be able to repair passenger coaches.[13][14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Wagon Pars Company". investing.businessweek.com. Bloomberg. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  2. ↑ "Wagonpars Company - About Us". www.wagonpars.com.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Iran: 17 Billion Euro Foreign Investment in Rail Industry". www.payvand.com. Payvand. 19 August 2009.
  4. ↑ "Iranians to build AC diesels". www.railwaygazette.com. Railway Gazette International. 1 February 1998.
  5. ↑ "Main line Locomotive AD43C (Under License of Alstom)". www.wagonpars.com. Wagon Pars Co.
  6. ↑ "ALSTOM to supply 100 diesel-electric locomotives in Iran". www.alstom.com (Press release). Alstom. 27 October 1999.
  7. ↑ "Iran Manufactures 1st Express Train". www.iran-daily.com. Iran Daily. 3 February 2007. Archived from the original on 2 June 2009.
  8. ↑ "Wagon Pars sells 550 wagons to Cuba". Tehran Times. 10 August 2009.
  9. ↑ "World rolling stock market September 2009". www.railwaygazette.com. Railway Gazette International. 17 September 2009. Iranian firm Wagon Pars has supplied 100 covered vans to Cuba under a 60bn rial contract, completing an order for 550 wagons
  10. ↑ "Wagon Pars selling 200 passenger rail cars". www.cubastandard.com. 28 May 2010.
  11. ↑ Sources:
  12. ↑ Sources:
    "Crisis at Wagon Pars". iranlaborreport.com. Iran Labor Report. 3 February 2010.
    "Workers of the Wagon Pars Factory on Strike". hopoi.org. Hands Off the People of Iran. 31 August 2009.
    "Iran: Wagon Pars workers stage sit-in over unpaid wages". www.marxistcom. 3 September 2009.
    "1700 Iranian workers on hunger strike". hopoi.org. 13 October 2009.
  13. ↑ "Iran's Wagon Pars to open factory in Syria". www.menafn.com. 16 May 2010.
  14. ↑ "Iran to Establish Wagon Production Plant in Syria", IDRO English Bulletin (Industrial development and renovation organisation of Iran (IDRO)) (11), September 2011: 4

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