Railway Gazette reported that president of the Swiss Confederation Mr Doris Leuthard attended the formal opening of Stadler Rail's centre of competence for double deck electric multiple units in Altenrhein on June 4th 2010.

Stadler has won four further contracts for double deck stock since the first order from SBB in 2008, and all will be built at Altenrhein, except the units for ODEG which will be supplied from Berlin Pankow. As a result of this growing order book the company has invested SFr60m expanding its Altenrhein and Winterthur plants.

The Altenrhein site acquired from Schindler in 1997 has been expanded with a 136 meters long and 55 m wide production hall for double deck stock. The former SLM plant in Winterthur has also been extended and now supplies bogies for the entire Stadler Rail Group, with the capacity to produce 1,200 a year

(Sourced from www.railwaygazette.com)