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the Alpiq Swiss invests in the field of railway infrastructures acquiring the Italian Balfour Beatty Rail
The company is active mainly in the field of engineering, the systems for the railway electrification and of public transport
March 13, 2015
The energetic group Helvetic Alpiq Holding KNOWS has acquired from the British Balfour Beatty Plc the 100% of the capital of controlled the Italian Balfour Beatty Rail Spa, society specialized in railway infrastructures and of public transport and between the protagonists to international level in the field of the systems for electric traction. As a result of this operation Balfour Beatty Rail has assumed the corporate name of Alpiq EnerTrans Spa and will be integrated in the group Alpic InTec AG, society of energetic services Swiss integrally controlled from Holding Alpiq.
Balfour Beatty Rail is active mainly in the field of engineering, the systems for the railway electrification and of public transport and is specialized in the planning, supply, installation and mass in service of railway projects "turnkey" and modernization.
Alpiq has emphasized that "the acquisition re-enters in the strategy of increase of the group in the field of the energetic services, and in particular in the technique of the traffic, having strengthened the leadership of Alpiq which supplier to international level in the field of the services and the technique of the transports. With this acquisition - it has found the Helvetic group - Alpiq geographically widens own presence in the market of the technique of the traffic and acquires an elevated know-how-how in the field of the railway electrification and public transport, let alone in the innovative technologies". Alpiq has remembered that over the last few years Balfour Beatty Rail has been among other things one of the partner technological of reference in the construction of the Italian railway net to high speed.
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The energetic group Helvetic Alpiq Holding KNOWS has acquired from the British Balfour Beatty Plc the 100% of the capital of controlled the Italian Balfour Beatty Rail Spa, society specialized in railway infrastructures and of public transport and between the protagonists to international level in the field of the systems for electric traction. As a result of this operation Balfour Beatty Rail has assumed the corporate name of Alpiq EnerTrans Spa and will be integrated in the group Alpic InTec AG, society of energetic services Swiss integrally controlled from Holding Alpiq.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
