Wagon Pars

Wagon Pars is an Iranian train manufacturing company established in 1974, in Arak, Iran.

Products include locomotives, trains, metros, freight and fuel wagons, and equipment for passenger boarding of aircraft.

History

The organisation began rolling stock manufacturing in 1984, in 1999 the factory reached an agreement with GEC-Alstom to produce under license the AD43C mainline locomotives.

In 2007 the company manufactured Iran's first express train, a four coach, 252 passenger, 160 km/hr train. In 2009 the company had a production capacity of 1800 vehicles per annum, and was operating at 20% of that figure.

In the first decade of the 21st century the company received export orders for Cuba, including a 60 billion rial order for 550 freight wagons, (completed Sept. 2009) and 200 passenger vehicles Also in 2009 the company obtained a €80 million contract with Vietnam Railways for the supply of 200 passenger vehicles - 40 of which would be produced by Wagon Pars, the remainder assembled in Vietnam as part of a technology transfer agreement.