Tikhvin Railway Car Building Plant Contracted for Equipment Supply for over US$300 mln
15.03.2010 (16:53)
The Tikhvin Railway Car Building Plant (TVSZ) has concluded agreements for supply of robotized press brakes (KUKA, Germany), gondola and hopper car center sill welding line (ALTA, Czech), as well as of the equipment of scrap shearing and swarf briquetting (AÒÌ, Austria).The supply of this equipment is scheduled for Quarter III 2010, the commissioning – for Quarter IV 2010.
As of early March 2010 more than 30 contracts were concluded for the development of technologies and supply of the main industrial equipment for the foundry and railcar productions of the plant for the total value of over US$300 mln. The first supply of the production equipment to TVSZ is expected in late Quarter I of this year.
The vendors of the process, engineering and measurement equipment for TVSZ are manufacturers reputable in their industries, including: melting shop – Siemens VAI (Germany), wheel set manufacture (automatic line) and castings machining – Danobat (Spain), railcar, wheelset and castings paint lines – Eisenmann (Germany), molding line for castings – Heinrich Wagner Sinto (Germany), core production – Laempe (Germany), heat-treatment furnaces – CAN-ENG (Canada), robotized welding equipment – KUKA (Germany), rolling mill – Bradbury (USA), plasma cutting – Whitney (USA), press brakes and guillotine shears – LVD (Belgium), transfer tables – Vollert (Germany).
The Tikhvin Railway Car Building Plant qualified to establish high industry standards, was designed given a comprehensive implementation of the technical and technological solutions.
The ICT Group is implementing an investment project for construction of the Tikhvin Railway Car Building Plant (TVSZ) on the industrial site in the town of Tikhvin, Leningrad Region. The plant will manufacture 4 types of freight railway cars of new design (solid-bottom gondola, hopper car for mineral fertilizers, flat car for heavy-capacity containers of 80-feet lading length, universal drop-bottom gondola) of joint design by Starfire Engineering & Technologies (USA) and the Engineering Center of Railcar Builders (Russia) on the basis of the bogie with 23,5t and 25t axial load developed by Standard Car Truck (USA) and on the basis of a standard local bogie.
The annual production capacity of TVSZ is 13,000 railcars, 65,000 wheel sets, and 80,000 tons of steel railway castings. The plant occupies a 50-hectare site with 233,000 sq m production premises. The planned number of employees is 3,500 people. The total volume of investments in the project amounts to over 800 mln US dollars.
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