CONTRACTS for the next order of trains to be built at Alstom's Ballarat-based manufacturing plant are yet to be signed and will be tagged onto the last rolling stock order, according to Transport Minister Terry Mulder.
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The 12 new trains would essentially save the facility, which only a month ago looked set to shut its doors.
Mr Mulder visited the site on Monday to talk to employees a week after the Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews visited the site.
Alstom managing director of transport for Australia and New Zealand Bernard Joyce said the continued government investment meant the company would continue to develop the Ballarat-based plant.
"The site is dependent on the workload ... if there is bipartisan support for the site, it is positive for the site," Mr Joyce said.
Both the Coalition and Labor have now committed to an increase for the minimum local content requirement .
Mr Joyce said the company would be applying for the new tenders given the investment they have made into the Ballarat site.
"We are in the market, we are in this site and we have developed this site to respond to the opportunities that present themselves on the Victorian network," he said.
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