EUROTEM

Hyundai EURotem

Company type	Joint venture
Industry	Rail transport
Founded	4 July 2006[1]
Founder	TÜVASAŞ (Turkish state owned company) Hyundai Rotem (South Korea)
Headquarters	Istanbul , Turkey[1]
Number of locations	1: Adapazarı (production plant)[1]
Key people	President: Mr. Gil-Young Chung[1]
Products	Light rail vehicles, EMU, DMU, high-speed trains, coaches[1]
Number of employees	150[1]
Website	hyundai-eurotem.com

EUROTEM, alternatively Hyundai EURotem, is a joint enterprise between Hyundai Rotem of South Korea and TÜVASAŞ and ASAŞ of Turkey which was founded in 2006^[2] and started production in December 2007.^[2]

The Hyundai EURotem factory in Adapazarı, Turkey, was built as the Hızlı Tren Fabrikası (High-Speed Train Factory) with the purpose of manufacturing the next generation of Turkey's high-speed trainsets.^[3]

Product history

Hyundai EURotem has built 24 DMU units^[4] and 96 EMU units^[5] for the Turkish State Railways.

On January 30, 2009, the first 8 trains (each with 4 coaches) built by Hyundai EURotem for the Istanbul Metro entered service.^[6] Hyundai EURotem will build a total of 92 new wagons for the M2 line, at a total cost of $127 million.^[6][7] These trains are air conditioned and equipped with LCD screens, as well as dynamic digital maps showing the location and direction of the train.^[7]

In 2008, Hyundai EURotem received an order for 440 EMU cars for the Marmaray project.^[1]

See also

• High-speed rail in Turkey
• Istanbul Metro
• TÜVASAŞ
• Hyundai Rotem
• HSR-350x
• KTX-II

References

1. Hyundai Rotem newsletter 1/2009 www.rotem.co.kr
2. Presentation of the Rail Transport - Turkey Archived 2019-05-22 at the Wayback Machine Tevfik Muhammed YEŞİLÇAM (TCDD) 21/11/2008 Page 29, www.euromedtransport.org
3. TCDD: Hızlı Tren Fabrikası (High-Speed Train Factory)^{[permanent dead link]} www.tcdd.gov.tr
4. TCDD DMU units www.hyundai-rotem.co.kr
5. TCDD EMU units www.hyundai-rotem.co.kr
6. Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality: Taksim-Yenikapı Metro Hattı Archived 2009-05-05 at the Wayback Machine www.ibb.gov.tr
7. İstanbul Ulaşım: Metro Şişhane'den Maslak'a uzandı www.istanbululasim.com