OREANDA-NEWS. February 18, 2008. The Bryansk Engineering Plant (BMZ, a CJSC Transmashholding member) received a certificate for a pilot batch of main line freight diesel locomotives 2TE25K Peresvet from the Russian Certification Register for the Federal Railway Transport (RS FJT) ON January 31, 2008. Under the certificate BMZ is authorized to manufacture and deliver a total of 20 locomotives, reported the press-centre of Transmashholding.

In 2008, 16 diesel locomotives are planned for delivery to Russian Railways.

2TE25K is the second Russian main line freight diesel locomotive to be launched into batch production (2TE70 was the first one, it was first manufactured by Kolomensky Zavod, also a Transmashholding member company, in 2007).

There was no batch production of main line freight diesel locomotives in Russia before 2007. New production facilities are set at the BMZ to manufacture Peresvets. The main line locomotive workshop is fitted with tilting devices and a SHW-6 machine tool to process the diesel locomotive underframe. The workshop is being fitted with a bead-blasting-painting- drying chamber, which is under assembly there now. In order to manufacture main line freight diesel locomotives over 800 technological processes have been developed and over 300 tool sets produced including tilting devices, test benches, stamps and auxiliary tools.

The BMZ main products are diesel shunters, freight cars and marine vessels. The main line freight diesel locomotives had been manufactured only by the Lugansk Diesel Locomotive Plant (Ukraine) until they were launched into production in Bryansk and Kolomna.