This week’s global railway supply chain news from Railway Gazette International. Salcef Group’s rail contractor PRM Australia has acquired Swietelsky Rail Australia, which provides mechanised maintenance and project services to clients including Australian Rail Track Corp and Sydney Trains.
This week’s global railway supply chain news from Railway Gazette International.
Salcef Group’s rail contractor PRM Australia has acquired Swietelsky Rail Australia, which provides mechanised maintenance and project services to clients including Australian Rail Track Corp and Sydney Trains. Its fleet includes ballast cleaning machines, spoil wagons, tampers and regulators, adding complementary capability to PRM’s existing construction, renewal and maintenance operations.
PRM Managing Director Chris Prior said the acquisition ‘gives PRM an established east coast operating platform and broadens the workforce, fleet and technical capability we can make available’, while ‘for employees, being part of a larger national business will open up broader career pathways, leadership opportunities and the potential to work across projects on both sides of the country’.
Alstom has renovated and expanded the Field Integration & Validation Platform testing laboratory within its Digital & Integrated Systems organisation in București. It said this significantly enhances its capability to develop, integrate and validate ERTMS, interlocking, CBTC, other train control and traffic management technology and electrification systems for projects in Romania and internationally.
Following the APTA trade fair in Chicago, Škoda Group said the USA represents one of the greatest growth opportunities for the coming years, and it believes it is well positioned to supply advanced components to vehicle manufacturers and contribute to the modernisation of existing fleets. It said a significant opportunity lies in the modernisation of trams, light rail vehicles and metro trains, because many operators in the USA and Canada currently address the obsolescence of key systems by purchasing new vehicles.
It said success would depend on meeting the requirements of the Buy America programme, which requires establishing a local presence.
Around 160 senior representatives of suppliers, business and politics attended the Knorr-Bremse Supplier Summit China in Suzhou, where the company announced plans to broaden its supplier base and further increase its procurement volume in China under the motto ‘Leading Technologies for Future Growth’. CEO Marc Llistosella said ‘China is a global pace-setter for speed, scale and technological excellence. Localisation is a decisive success factor for cost efficiency, rapid ramp-ups and resilience.’
Transportnaya Tekhnika has launched series production of tram bogie components at its plant at Pavlovsky Posad in the Moskva region. The project involved an investment of 190m roubles, including a 150m rouble preferential loan from the Industrial Development Fund. The plant is expected to produce up to 1 200 tram wheels, 600 axles and 600 couplings per year, for trams produced by manufacturers including Sinara Urban Rail Transport and Uraltransmash.
SCN has signed a European distribution agreement with Danish manufacturer Kjærulf Pedersen, giving rail and other customers in eight countries local access to its KP Sensors range of vibration, motion, inclination and humidity monitoring devices.
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