Balfour Beatty Rail, a division of Balfour Beatty plc, the international engineering, construction and services group, announces today that it has acquired the Nordic signalling operations of Saab Communications.
This is part of Balfour Beatty Rail’s strategy to broaden its multi-disciplinary capabilities and to further build up its signalling expertise. Recently the Group announced new joint ventures for signalling solutions with Bombardier in Germany and Alstom in the UK. In 2004 it acquired Bombardier’s UK Solid State Interlocking Signalling resources.
Commenting today Balfour Beatty Rail Group Managing Director, Manfred Leger, said:
“Balfour Beatty Rail is a world leader in delivering multi-disciplinary rail development projects to major network owners. We are constantly seeking to enhance our capabilities to better satisfy our customers and the acquisition of Saab’s signalling business will add to our growing capabilities to provide signalling solutions to our key customers.”
Balfour Beatty Rail is a leader in multi-disciplinary projects, electrification and power supply, trackwork, track systems and rail plant and is a growing force in signalling technology.
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