Article: 200 New Low Emission Buses for Rapid Penang to be built with Rio Tinto Alcan aluminium lightweight technology.

Alcan Extruded Products, part of Alcan Engineered Products - a business unit of Rio Tinto - is pleased to announce that it is supplying all of the aluminium extrusions, sheets and joining elements for the production of 200 new, low floor city buses for the city of Penang, Malaysia. Rapid Penang will be the first major transit company in Malaysia to operate a fleet of buses with the EcoRange[R] body structure system from Rio Tinto Alcan. The first of these latest generation buses will be delivered to Rapid Penang before the end of 2009.

"We are very proud that we were selected to supply the innovative aluminium EcoRange[R] body structure. Due to the system's ...

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