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Chinese Rail Firm Makes Inroads with U.S. Factory and Boston Transit Deal

9.3.15

News Library / CRRC MA

China’s biggest rail manufacturing company is setting its sights on the United States. It broke ground on Thursday for a $60 million plant in Springfield, Mass., that will assemble new cars for Boston’s subway system.

The state-owned company, the China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation, or CRRC, is the first Chinese rail car manufacturer to win a major transit contract in the United States.

The Springfield plant, which will hire 150 people, is part of a $566 million contract that the company won last year to provide 284 cars for the Boston transit system’s Orange and Red Lines.