When ground breaks Thursday on a $60 million Springfield factory where new MBTA Red and Orange Line cars will be built, it could represent a major opportunity for the Chinese company behind it.
The $566 million contract to build 284 new cars is the first foray into North America for China Railway Rolling Stock Corp. And CRRC doesn’t want the Massachusetts gig to be its last on the continent.
CRRC is featured in Masslive.com coverage of new Philadelphia project.
CRRC MA in Springfield starts hiring for Philadelphia rail car project
CRRC will host a hiring fair 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the factory — where the production floor is big enough for three-and-a half football fields — to fill 20 to 30 new jobs as mechanical assemblers, electrical assemblers and test technicians
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