Post by Martin Sion

I recently visited our Salzgitter and Hennigsdorf sites in Germany, where more than 9,500 people are mobilised across over 200 ongoing projects to deliver at scale. Salzgitter is in the middle of a significant ramp-up. As our second largest site, it carries a long industrial history - and right now, the teams are managing a genuinely complex setup, from homologation to supply chain coordination, to deliver our new Coradia Max to the Länder. Hennigsdorf is a different story. This site is central to our German operations and is moving through a major transition toward Services and Digitalisation, preparing for the massive upgrade of German trainsets with ETCS. It’s also where two projects acquired last year are taking shape: S-Bahn Rheinland and the DT6 for Hamburg. I reviewed progress on both, met the leadership teams driving the regional turnaround, and got behind the wheel of the X80 Nordic - a useful reminder of the engineering depth in our portfolio. Both sites are operating under real pressure - complex programs, high execution demands. The conversations were direct and grounded. I was struck by the focus of the teams to overcome daily challenges. Thank you for the depth of the discussions - Germany remains a strategically important market for Alstom, and the work being done every day reflects that.