Special-purpose firm Gibela wants local machinery and equipment suppliers for its R1bn ultra-modern manufacturing facility GIBELA Rail Transport Consortium, which has a R51bn contract to supply 600 trains to the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa), is looking for local machinery and equipment suppliers for its R1bn ultra-modern manufacturing facility.This comes as Gibela said on Thursday that work was under way to construct the main factory building on the manufacturing facility.The R400m factory building in Ekurhuleni is being built by a joint venture of black-owned companies, Trencon Construction and Black Jills Engineers.The manufacturing facility will consist of a main factory building that will be equipped with machinery and tools for assembling the trains as well as facilities to test trains, a supplier park and a training centre.Special-purpose firm Gibela is 61%-owned by French power and transport group Alstom, with the rest of the shareholding held by empowerment partners. ...
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