Celsius gets order worth SEK 139 M
Swedish National Rail Administration places order worth SEK 139 M Celsius-owned Kockums Industrier has received an order from the Swedish National Rail Administration for 12 rail-borne service vehicles. The order is worth SEK 64 M. At the same time options on a further 14 vehicles were signed worth SEK 75 M. The order is worth a total of SEK 139 M. The vehicles will be manufactured at Kockums' engineering workshops in Malmö. Production will start in August of this year. Final delivery is expected during the first half of the year 2000. These newly ordered service vehicles will replace the approximately 70 ageing service vehicles now used by the Swedish National Rail Administration for track and peripheral maintenance. They are a new generation of service vehicles and, even in their most basic form, are equipped with an inbuilt rotating platform, so that the upper section can be turned through an angle of o 180 C while on the same track. This type of multi-purpose vehicle offers much greater total economy, since each vehicle replaces several different types of earlier service vehicles. For further information, please contact Kjell Göthe, Vice President/Corporate Communications at Celsius, on + 46 (0)8 - 463 00 19 or + 46 (0)70- 583 95 44 (mobile). Celsius is an international advanced-technology and knowledge-based corporation, which in close interaction with its customers develops, manufactures and maintains advanced systems, products and services within core areas Defence and Aviation Services. Based on a platform of comprehensive competence, new businesses with strong growth potential are developed for the military and commercial markets. Celsius has sales of about SEK 14 billion. Celsius has sales of about SEK 14 billion and some 11,000 employees. ------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/1999/04/08/19990408BIT00040/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/1999/04/08/19990408BIT00040/bit0002.pdf