Vado Ligure ( lij, Voæ), in antiquity Vada Sabatia, is a town and ''

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'' in the

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, in northern

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Economy

Vado has a large industrial and commercial port. Vado Ligure is home to a railway construction plant, founded in 1905 as

Società Italiana Westinghouse The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company founded in 1886 by George Westinghouse. It was originally named "Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company" and was renamed "Westinghouse Electric Corporation" in ...

. In 1919 it was taken over by

Tecnomasio Italia Brown Boveri Tecnomasio was an Italian scientific and precision instrument company founded in the 1860s. By the beginning of the 20th century the company has begun to produce electrical equipment. After financial problems in the early 1900s the company was acq ...

and, since 2001, it has been part of

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. It currently produces the

FS Class E.464 The E.464 is a class of Italian railways electric locomotives. They were introduced in the course of the 1990s for hauling light trains, especially for commuter service. They were acquired by FS Trenitalia to replace the old E.424 and E.646, d ...

locomotives. The town's territory also includes an electric power plant, whose two towers, high, are visible for kilometers in the neighbourhood.

Twin towns

La Ravoire La Ravoire (; Arpitan: ''La Rovouère'' or ''La Ravouère'') is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 8,530. It is part of Grand Chambéry. Population Tw ...

, France, since 2002

References

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