In January-June Russian Railroads bought 553.5 thousand tons of rails. All the rails are bought from Russian manufacturers. In particular Evraz supplied 397.1 thousand tons of rails, and Mechel – 156.4 thousand tons. This year Russian Railroads intends to buy around 1 million tons of rails: some 700 thousand tons from Evraz and 330 thousand…
Rails produced by Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works has demonstrated high strength during the tests at the Russian scientific and research institute of railroad transport. ChMK products have withstood the loading of 750 million ton-km. The rails have been tested since 2014. ChMK started producing new rails in 2013 having put a rail-beam mill into…
Ukrzaliznytsia has announced a purchase of railroad rails, joint bars and rail chairs with the total cost of 2019.367 million UAH. In particular, the company will buy 63 thousand tons of railroad rails at the expected price of 1779.846 million UAH, as well as 6668 tons of chairs and 1176 tons of joint bars at…
In 2017 Russian Railroads expect the delivery of 1 million tons of rails. All the products are purchased from Russian manufacturers. Evraz is planned to supply up to 700 thousand tons of rails, and Mechel – 330 thousand tons. Rails are used by RZhD for new construction as well as for repairs. In 2016 Russian…
In January-October rail output increased by 34.1% YoY, to 991.5 thousand tons, mostly due to the increase in Russian Railroad (RZHD) purchases. By 2030 RZHD plans to have constructed 13.8 thousand km of heavy weight transportation railroads, as well as 10.5 thousand km of high-speed railroads, which in its turn will increase cargo transportation 1.5-fold,…
