Kim Facility to Manufacture Track Slabs for India’s First Bullet Train A state-of-the-art track slab manufacturing facility has been set up in Kim, near Surat, to support India’s first bullet train project. Using advanced Japanese Shinkansen technology, the factory will produce ballastless track slabs for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor. Spanning 19 acres, it can produce 120 slabs daily. The factory will manufacture 96,000 J-slabs for the 237 km corridor, each weighing 3.9 tonnes a