Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company (川崎重工業車両カンパニー, Kawasaki Jūkōgyō Sharyō Kanpanī) is the rolling stock production division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Since beginning operations in 1906, the company has produced more than 90,000 railroad cars.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company
川崎重工業車両カンパニー
TypeDivision of Kawasaki Heavy Industries
IndustryRolling stock manufacturing
Founded1906
HeadquartersHyōgo-ku, Kobe, Japan
ProductsElectric trains (including Shinkansen trains)
Monorails
Passenger coaches and freight cars
Diesel locomotives
Electric locomotives
Platform screen door systems
Passenger coaches and freight cars integrated transit systems
Websitewww.khi.co.jp/english/index.html
www.kawasakirailcar.com
The Kawasaki Heavy Industries factory in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
The Kawasaki Rail Plant in Yonkers, New York, USA
The Yonkers, USA factory
A Kawasaki Heavy Industries-CSR Qingdao Sifang C151A train approaching Expo MRT station.

Products

As indicated by the company name, the company mainly produces railroad vehicles. Recently Kawasaki has received orders from customers in foreign countries, including Ireland and the United States. All products manufactured for the US rail market are sold through Kawasaki Rail Car Inc., another division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. An assembly plant in Lincoln, Nebraska produces fully completed cars and "knocked down" cars. Because of substantial sales to the New York City Subway and various commuter lines, an additional assembly plant was established in Yonkers, New York in 1986 for final assembly of cars built in Lincoln.

In November 2020, Kawasaki Heavy Industries announced that it would spin off some of its businesses, including the rolling stock division from October 2021.[1]

Japan Railways Group

Products produced for the Japan Railways Group, or JR Group, include:

  • JNR class C57 steam locomotive
  • JNR class EF65 locomotive
  • class DF200 disel locomotive
  • JNR 63 series EMU
  • JNR 583 series sleeping EMU
  • GV-E400 series DMU
  • 383 series tilting EMU
  • 0series shinkansen
  • Doctor Yellow Shinkansen
  • container carrier car koki104

Major private railway corporation

Production for the following private railways include:

  • Hanshin Electric 9000 series EMU
  • Keihin Electric Railway (Keikyu) 2100 series
  • Tokyo Metro 16000series EMU

Other railway companies in Japan

Public transportation bureaus
  • Sapporo Municipal Subway
  • Yokohama Municipal Subway

Monorails & ATGs

Production for Monorails and Automated guideway transits (ATG) include:

Overseas clients
  • A train of Kawasaki R62 subway cars on the 3 service of the New York City Subway
  • Towing locomotives at Panama Canal
  • Hong Kong Light Rail Phase II LRV cab car and trailer
  • A Kawasaki train on the Taipei Metro Xiaonanmen Line
  • Taiwan Highspeed Rail 700T
  • China CRH2
  • Metro North Railroad M8
  • Washington Metro 7000series

References
  1. "Policy Decision: Rolling Stock and Motorcycle & Engine Businesses to be Spun Off, Ship & Offshore Structure and Energy System & Plant Engineering Businesses to be Integrated" (PDF). Kawasaki Heavy Industries. 2 November 2020.
  2. "Towing Locomotives for the Panama Canal Authority". Japan Overseas Railway System Association.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.