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Due to its very low construction height, the RHEDA 2000® offers considerable advantages when
renovating tunnels as it provides greater clearance in existing tunnels. This permits higher train
operating speeds, in turn resulting in better track usage.
Building on its leading position in Germany and Europe, Pfleiderer track systems is now targeting
new markets in the growth regions of central, eastern and south-eastern Europe, as well as
in India, South Korea, China and other south-east Asian countries. In fiscal 2004, the Business
Center was actively involved in the following projects:
In Germany, around 100,000 bi-bloc sleepers for ballastless track were supplied for the new
line between Nuremberg and Ingolstadt. These sleepers were produced “just-in-time” and supplied
directly to the site.
In the construction of the new Amsterdam-Brussels high-speed link (HSL-Zuid) – currently the
biggest rail infrastructure project in Europe – where Pfleiderer track systems will be producing
and delivering around 260,000 sleeper systems based on the RHEDA 2000® technology by the
autumn of 2006. Pfleiderer track systems is also involved in a joint venture with the Dutch construction
company Royal BAM N.V. where it is directly responsible for project design, engineering
and quality management.
Pfleiderer track systems has entered the Asian market where it is involved in the construction
of the new high-speed Taipei-Kaohsiung link in Taiwan. Apart from supplying engineering
services for the planning and construction of major sections of the track, railway stations and
turnouts will be fitted with RHEDA 2000® technology. Around 65,000 meters of turnout sleepers
will come from German production, while some 125,000 track sleepers will be produced in
Taiwan in conjunction with a local partner.
Pfleiderer track systems will be supplying over 680,000 type B70 concrete sleepers for Turkey’s
modernization of the first stretch of the Ankara to Istanbul link. The sleepers will be delivered
from German production, as well as from the Buzău plant in Romania and the Lábatlan plant
in Hungary. This order means that these plants will be running at full capacity for the next
15 months.
An order has been taken from VAE GmbH, Zeltweg in Austria for Pfleiderer track systems to
supply around 20,000 of its RHEDA 2000® ballastless track system turnout sleepers for the
underground “Circle Line” in Singapore by 2008. These sleepers will be supplied by the Coswig
plant near Dresden.
Pfleiderer track systems is extending its presence in the growth markets of China and India
through two cooperative ventures:
In China, Pfleiderer track systems has been a partner in the “German High-Speed Initiative”
since 2003. The Initiative is represented by two competence centers for rail technology in the
capital Bejing and the South-China growth region of Guangdong.
In India, Pfleiderer track systems has entered into a joint venture with Patil Rail Infrastructure
Ltd., the biggest producer of railway sleepers in India. The first project for this newly-formed
joint venture, operating under the name “Patil Pfleiderer track systems Pvt. Ltd.,” will participate
in the construction of a 300-kilometer rail track in the mountainous Kashmir region, and will
also involve the construction of tunnels up to 11 kilometers long.
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