Lohr

The Delavan and LOHR Partnership is strengthened by:

• Sharing (quality) the best practices and safe technical solutions

• Sharing of patents

• Sharing of experience and sources of supply

• LOHR’s 50 years of experience outside the North American Marketplace

LOHR Group (www.lohr.fr) is a private French group based in Alsace near Strasbourg, a world specialist for more than 45 years in the design and production of transportation systems for goods and people. It has four activities:

• Road transport, with the car-carrier: Lohr historical activity - world leader

• Rail transport, with Modalohr (combined rail-road transport)

• Public Urban transport, with Translohr (tram on tires) and Airval-Cityval (light automatic people mover, in cooperation with Siemens Transportation Systems)

• Logistic transport

The group owns plants in Turkey, Serbia, China, India, United States and Mexico.

Car-carrier

Lohr historical activity. The R&D department innovates to increase the transport capacity, the performances and the quality of its products.

Its industrial development Is based on an accurate technological research and ressources for a worldwide international demand.

A few years ago, the Eurolohr concept has been developed, which became the main car carrier product of the company. Lohr is the world leader in this field.

• Translohr (tram on tires)

Increase the urban mobility through an economical, ecological, and modern mean of transport. Lohr has developed Translohr, the new generation of tramways.

8 cities have chosen Translohr:

• Five cities have already started operating their tramway networks with the Translohr: Clermont-Ferrand (in operation since November 2006), Padua (Italy, in operation since March 2007), Tianjin (China, in operation since May 2007), Shanghai (China, first train line inaugurated on December 31, 2009), and Mestre-Venice in Italy, partially in operations since December 2010).

• Three lines are currently under way: Saint Denis- Sarcelles in the North of Paris (Translohr is the solution adopted by the RATP) and Latina (Italy, commissioning planned for 2013). Finally, RATP has chosen Translohr for its high demand new line Chatillon-Viroflay (South of Paris). The contract has been signed last September 2010.

• Airval, Cityval

Siemens Transportation Systems (STS) and Lohr Industrie have entered into a partnership to develop NEOVAL, the new lightrail, automatic, on tyres, driverless modular people mover, the new VAL generation.

The new system is characterized by the use of tyres and braking functions from the road technology, with the same Translohr guiding system, and the central rail.

The market concerns airport shuttles and automatic lightrail people mover networks, on a worldwide scale.

• Cristal

Cristal is a new concept of vehicle. Compact, electric, noiseless, for 6 persons, able to be manual and individually driven, or collectively operated.

Cristal is the new mean of individual or semi collective transport, in complement with the urban existing transport means.

Acting as the defence department of the group, Soframe took over the military activities since 2000.

The company has human and technical competences which granted a high international reputation in special vehicles such as light airborne vehicles, logistic transport, tank transporters, bridging equipments, special shelters and stabilized platforms for weapon systems.

These products enable Soframe to participate the large defence programs in cooperation with the largest European defence companies.

The saturation of the road communication routes and the inevitable traffic cloggings led Lohr to be interested in developing new transport alternatives and designing a new product, MODALOHR. A combined rail-road wagon.

This low-floor articulated railway wagon, allows the quick, safe and economical transhipment of standard semi-trailers from the road to the rail. The system is adapted to the existing railway infrastructures and without constraint for the users.

A first railway line has been under commercial operation since 2003 between France and Italy.

A second line was inaugurated in March 2007 between France (Spanish border) and Luxembourg.