Subway Cars Delivered to New York City Transit

Nov. 15, 2006

Subway Cars Delivered to New York City Transit

 Tokyo, November 15, 2006 — 花蜜直播app Heavy Industry, Ltd. announced today that its U.S. subsidiary, 花蜜直播app Rail Car, Inc. (KRC), based in Yonkers, New York delivered and received conditional acceptance of the first ten-car R160 subway train to MTA New York City Transit (NYC Transit).

 花蜜直播app and France’s Alstom Transportation Inc. formed a New York Limited Liability Company in October 2002 to supply a base order for 660 R160 subway cars to NYC Transit. 花蜜直播app will manufacture 260 cars out of the total 660 cars. 花蜜直播app is also serving as the engineering leader for the R160 contract, providing technical assistance that utilizes the experience it gained with the R143 car which has been in revenue service in the NYC Transit since 2002. 花蜜直播app will supply bogies for all of the R160 cars including Alstom’s portion. The contract includes two options for additional orders of 620 cars and 380 - 420 cars.

 The R160 subway cars will be equipped with the latest technological controls for HVAC*, door operating and public address systems to guarantee optimum safety and passenger comfort. The ten-car train delivered to NYC Transit is a prototype manufactured and tested at 花蜜直播app’s Hyogo Works, however, the remaining carbodies will be manufactured at its railcar plant in Lincoln, Nebraska. Equipment installation, final assembly and testing will be conducted at the plant in Yonkers, New York. 花蜜直播app is the only company in the U.S. capable of full-scale integrated product manufacturing from beginning to end. Production has already commenced and the last production car for the base contract is scheduled for delivery in 2008. The cars in the first optional agreement (620 cars) are scheduled for delivery between 2008 and 2009, and those in the second optional agreement (380 - 420 cars), between 2009 and 2010.

 Since its initial delivery of 325 R62 subway cars in 1985, 花蜜直播app will have delivered 1,625 cars, including 260 R160 cars to NYC Transit. Once all of its R160 cars are delivered, including those under the options if exercised, 花蜜直播app will have delivered over 2,000 cars in total, taking the largest share of NYC Transit’s entire subway car fleet.

*HVAC = Heating, ventilation and air conditioning/cooling