Titagarh Rail Systems

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Titagarh Rail Systems Limited
Company type Public
BSE:  532966
NSE:  TWL
ISIN INE615H01020
Industry Railways
Defense
Shipbuilding
Mining
Founded1984 [1]
FounderJagadish Prasad Chowdhary
HeadquartersTitagarh Towers 756, Anandapur, E.M. Bypass,
Kolkata, West Bengal
,
India [2]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Jagadish Prasad Chowdhary
    (Chairman) [3]
  • Prithish Chowdhary
    (Non-executive Director) [4]
  • Umesh Chowdhary
    (Managing Director) [5]
Products
  • Freight wagons
  • Locomotives
  • Rolling stock
  • Mining equipment
  • Navalships
Production output
8,000 wagons [6]  (2020)
RevenueIncrease2.svg₹2,822.17 crore (US$350 million) (2023) [7]
Increase2.svg₹130.20 crore (US$16 million) (2023) [7]
Total assets Increase2.svg₹2,678.90 crore (US$340 million) (2022) [3]
Total equity Increase2.svg₹842.27 crore (US$110 million) (2022) [3]
OwnersChowdhary family (47.05%) [8]
Number of employees
453 [9]  (31 March 2021)
Subsidiaries
  • Titagarh Firema
  • Cimmco Limited [10]
  • Titagarh Marine Limited
Website titagarh.in

Titagarh Rail Systems Limited, formerly known as Titagarh Wagons Limited, is an Indian rolling stock manufacturer in the private sector. Established in 1984 as a rolling stock foundry unit, the company's headquarters are situated in Kolkata, West Bengal. [11] Titagarh is publicly traded on both the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and National Stock Exchange (NSE). [12] [13]

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In 1997, the founder decided to add a bit more value to his propositions. He ventured into making entire wagons that would be used for freight, before that it used to manufacture railway components. The core operations of the company encompass providing freight wagons, semi high-speed trains, metros, transit and propulsion systems, and passenger coaches for the Indian Railways and for the export markets as well. In addition to the design, manufacture & supply of 102 Metro Coaches for Pune Metro and the largest ever order for procurement of 24177 Wagons which are under execution, the Company has been awarded prestigious orders by the Indian Railways for the manufacture and maintenance of Vande Bharat Trains and Wheels for the same under the Atma Nirbhar and Make in India initiatives of the Government of India and is a significant enabler for railway infrastructure of the country. Beyond its substantial engagement in the railway sector, Titagarh holds business interests in shipbuilding, bridges, and defense . [14] [15] [16]

Overview

Context

The founder of Titagarh Rail Systems, Shri. Jagadish Prasad Chowdhary, commenced his professional journey as an account assistant at a tea estate in Darjeeling, West Bengal. Subsequently, he relocated to Calcutta (now Kolkata) and assumed the role of an accountant at a steel casting company that supplied materials to the Indian Railways. Mr. Chowdhary eventually assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the steel castings company.

In the year 1982, Mr. Chowdhary as an entrepreneur acquired the defunct foundry division of the government-owned Britannia Engineering then under liquidation, situated in Titagarh, Barrackpore, West Bengal. Renaming the enterprise as Titagarh Steels Limited (TSL), he commenced  production of railway casting components, specifically bogies and couplers & crossings and turned around the operations of the Foundry in a record time. In 1994, Mr. Chowdhary was invited to present a rehabilitation plan for the two Paper Mills of the then sick Titagarh Paper Mills Company Limited which were vested in TSL by a Scheme of Rehabilitation by the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR). Subsequently these Paper Mills were demerged into two separate companies through a Scheme of Arrangement sanctioned by the Hon’ble High Court, Calcutta. [6]

Development

Chowdhary founded Titagarh Wagons Limited on 3 July 1997 to manufacture railway wagons. [6] [17] The company started out with an annual production capacity of 180 wagons. [6]

In July 2010, Titagarh Wagons purchased the French rail wagon maker Arbel Fauvet Rail (AFR) for EUR 15 million (first overseas acquisition), which had gone into receivership in February 2009. [18] [19] Titagarh Wagons turned around AFR and with the subsidiary's revenue rising from ₹9.95 crore (US$1.2 million) in 2010-11 to ₹163.51 crore (US$20 million) in 2011-12, and the employee headcount almost doubling from 85 to 150. [20] A French commercial court ordered the liquidation of AFR in July 2019. The next month, Titagarh announced that it would exit from AFR. Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Umesh Chowdhary, stated that AFR had been making losses of 4-5 million euros a year for the past three years due to general economic factors, and would have required more capital to reach profitability. Titagarh Wagons had invested ₹100 crore (US$13 million) in AFR since acquiring the company. [21]

Titagarh Wagons acquired Corporated Shipyard in 2012 and merged it in Titagarh Marines to manufacture ships for the Indian Navy. Corporated Shipyard won its first defence contract in 2017. [22] [23]

In 2015, Titagarh Wagons acquired the brand name and know-how of French cast steel bogie manufacturer Sambre et Meuse. [24] On 16 July 2015, Titagarh acquired a 90% stake in Italian rail equipment firm Firema Trasporti for an estimated € 25 million. The remaining 10% stake was held by Italian company Adler Plastics SpA. [25] [26] In June 2017, Titagarh announced that it had acquired the 10% stake from Adler Plastics for an undisclosed amount. [27] [28] The company was subsequently renamed as Titagarh Firema SpA. Titagarh Firema designs metro rail coaches and manufactures them at its factories at Caserta, Spello and Tito. [29]

In May 2016, Titagarh Wagons formed a 50/50 joint venture with French Matiere SAS to manufacture metallic and modular bridges. [30] [31] Titagarh Wagons acquired Matiere's stake in July 2020, making it a wholly-owned subsidiary. [32] [33]

In 2019, Titagarh Firema was awarded the contract to supply 102 aluminium bodied metro rail coaches for the Pune Metro by Maha Metro. [34] While 3 of the total 34 rakes would be manufactured at the Firema plant in Italy, the remaining 31 trainsets would be manufactured at TWL's facility in Uttarpara. [35]

In April 2021, the company secured a ₹3.5 billion contract to supply rolling stock for the Ahmedabad Metro. [36]

In February 2024, the company secured a ₹170 crore (US$20 million) contract for supplying 250 specialized wagons to the Ministry of Defence. [37]

In March 2024, the company secured a ₹1909.04 crore contract for supplying 4463 BOSM Wagons to the Ministry of Railways. [38]

Financials

Titagarh Rail Systems Limited reported a total income of Rs.2822.17 crores during the financial year ended March 31, 2023 as compared to Rs.1485.23 crores during the financial year ended March 31, 2022. The company posted a net profit of Rs.130.20 crores for the financial year ended March 31, 2023 as against a loss of Rs.0.32 crores for the financial year ended March 31, 2022. [39] [3]

Subsidiaries

Former subsidiaries

Joint ventures

Products and services

An aluminium trainset made by Titagarh Rail Systems Limited for the Pune Metro. Titagarh Wagon Pune Metro.jpg
An aluminium trainset made by Titagarh Rail Systems Limited for the Pune Metro.

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