Rolls-Royce opens Cape Town manufacturing plant
Rolls-Royce on Thursday opened its Cape Town-based manufacturing plant for the engines that will power Transnet’s multibillion-rand rolling stock tender. This will allow for the only SA-based assembly of locomotive engines for the contract, which still faces some uncertainty over issues of localisation requirements. MTU SA, a unit of Rolls-Royce Power Systems, will assemble 212 of the 232 locomotive diesel engines being procured by Transnet through the China Rolling Stock Corporation. The facility was subject to a R60m upgrade for manufacturing, with the engines to be delivered to a Durban-based plant for installation, MTU SA said on Thursday. The state-owned logistics group has given the assurance it will audit local content for the 1,064 locomotives being built by four international manufacturers — Bombardier, General Electric, and China North Rail and China South Rail Zhuzhou, now merged into China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation. Transnet wants 55% to 60% local content for the...
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