Bombardier Ciudad Sahagun

In 1992, Bombardier Transportation acquired its Bombardier Ciudad Sahagún plant from the Mexican government.[1][2] The plant is in Ciudad Sahagún, Hidalgo.

Since then, the plant has been employed on a number of contracts.[3]

The plant built a series of Electro-Motive Diesel locomotives.[4]

The plant has built over 100 light rail vehicles for rapid transit systems in Mexico's three largest cities, Guadalajara, Monterrey, and Mexico City.[5][6] The plant has built 70 percent of the rail vehicles in Mexico.[7]

Bombardier won contracts for two of the largest rail vehicle contracts in North America, 204 Flexity Outlook streetcars and 182 Flexity Freedom light rail vehicles, for the Toronto Transit Commission, and MetroLinx, a regional transit authority in the Greater Toronto Area.[1] Bombardier split construction of these vehicles between its Ciudad Sahagún factory and one of its factories in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Welding the basic chassis was to take place in the Ciudad Sahagún factory. Bombardier fell years behind in delivery of these vehicles. Reports in the Canadian press repeated claims that the workers in the Thunder Bay plant that the work done in Ciudad Sahagún was not competently performed.[7] Bombardier tried to speed up construction by opening up an additional production line in its plant in Kingston, Ontario.

The Financial Post reported, in January 2015, that Bombardier's Thunder Bay plant blamed layoffs on Bombardier Ciudad Sahagún's delays in delivery.[8]

References
  1. Ben Spurr, Edward Keenan, Marco Chown Oved, Jayme Poisson, Marina Jimenez, David Rider (2017-05-05). "Not in service". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2018-07-06. Retrieved 2018-07-06. Most notably, workers at the Sahagún plant were failing at what one official calls the “black art” of welding.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. "Bombardier Transportation FactSheet Sahagun Mexico" (PDF). Bombardier Inc. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  3. Frederic Tomesco, Brendan Case (2013-07-03). "Bombardier Weighs Mexico Rail Bids as Europe Market Slows". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  4. Douglas John Bowen (2012-09-19). "Bombardier, EMD team up to export locomotives". Railway Age. Retrieved 2018-07-06. The joint venture builds upon a similar collaboration between both companies at Bombardier’s manufacturing site in Ciudad Sahagún, Mexico. Bombardier will manufacture certain components, including underframes and bogies, and assemble the EMD locomotives at its Savli, Gujarat facility in India.
  5. "Bombardier to supply new Guadalajara fleet". Railway Gazette. Mexico. 2016-01-05. Retrieved 2018-07-06. According to the state government, 13 companies responded to the call for tenders where the winning bid of 752⋅2m pesos represents a saving of 24% on the expected cost.
  6. "Bombardier increasing light rail capacity in Guadalajara". Canadian Manufacturing. 2017-03-28. Retrieved 2018-07-06. The TEG-15 LRV is part of Bombardier’s Mexican light rail product line, with more than 100 trains in service in Mexico’s three largest cities: Guadalajara, Monterrey and Mexico City. The project is being managed by teams working out of Bombardier’s Ciudad Sahagún facility in the State of Hidalgo.
  7. John Lorinc (2016-05-03). "Bombardier's Mexico problem". Spacing magazine. Retrieved 2018-07-06. Bombardier’s explanation for the fiasco is that components for the so-called Flexity vehicle, made on a sub-assembly line in a giant factory in Sahagún, Mexico, were inadequate, and thus held up the manufacturing process in Thunder Bay.
  8. Peter Kuitenbrouwer (2015-01-05). "Bombardier's Thunder Bay plant hit with supply chain woes". Financial Post. Retrieved 2018-07-06. All is not well at this facility. Bombardier did not disclose it to a visitor, but the company is laying off 49 people here in December and January. Upon later inquiry, the company confirmed that it cannot keep these workers busy because of challenges getting parts to the plant from the Bombardier factory in Ciudad Sahagún, near Mexico City, among other places.
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