Georgian Carriage Building Holding Has Joined Business Association of Georgia
15 Mar '16
Georgian Carriage Building Holding Has Joined Business Association of Georgia
Georgian Carriage Building Holding is one of the largest industrial groups in Georgia founded in 2009. The holding unifies 3 companies: Carriage Building Company (since 2005), Tbilisi Rolling Stock Work (since 1883) and Rustavi Metallurgical Plant (since 1964).
The main direction of the holding is construction and maintenance of the railway transport. Tbilisi Rolling Stock Work has been repairing and modernizing Passenger Trains, locomotives, diesel locomotives historically. In 2010, by cooperation with Chinese side, they constructed a new high-speed electric train that successfully moves in Tbilisi-Batumi direction.
The key motive power of the Holding is Carriage Building Company, where all types of cargo wagons are constructed and repaired. The company holds a special license, which allows to produce carriages and to move in the post-soviet space. The company also produces and repairs trolleys of carriages and diesel locomotives.
The third plant owned by the Holding focuses on molding of carriage details. There are produced 27 different types of small and medium-sized vehicle details. In 2015 the company gained a license for molding the most severe details - side frames and bogie bolsters. This allows the holding to localize the largest part of carriage production in Georgia. Before all details were imported from Ukraine and Russia, after gaining the license we can say that 100% of carriage production is located in Georgia.
At this time Holding’s clients are Georgian, Russian, Azerbaijan, Armenian, Kazakhstan and Baltic railways. It should be mentioned that Georgia gained the status of carriage builder after Russia and Ukraine and it is the leader in carriage repairing and constructing in the Caucasus Region.
Today Georgian Carriage Building Holding has partnership with German, Chinese, Ukraine, Czech and other related profile of enterprise.
Georgian Carriage Building Holding is one of the biggest industrial groups in Georgia, which produces all types of freight carriages, Passenger carriages, EMU trains and locomotive’s.