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50 Business View Australia - May - June 2016
The Dandenong manufacturing plant
alone covers 41 acres, with 28,000
sq. metres under roof and direct
access to the rail network, as well as
a one kilometre light rail vehicle (LRV)
test track. Bombardier’s Centre of
Excellence for Industrial Design and
Engineering is based in both Brisbane
and Melbourne, for customizing rail
solutions to suit local requirements.
At 27 years old, Loulou Hammad,
Communications and Marketing Lead
for BT Australia, is one of the youngest
people on the Bombardier team, but
her knowledge of the brand, and
passion for promoting its value, is
exemplary. We spoke with Hammad
in-depth about the company’s long-
time presence in Australia, and its
positive effect on local economies
across the nation.
“We are ‘local’ in every sense of the
word,” Hammad noted. “Our industrial
design, engineering, manufacturing,
maintenance and rail signalling teams
are all based in Australia, allowing us
to maintain the highest level of local
content across the majority of our
projects.”
Delivering Mobility Across
Australia
A number of exclusive BT rollingstock
projects are on the go across the
country, such as the VLocity diesel
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FLEXITY ‘E-Class’ trams for Yarra
Trams, both designed, manufactured
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