Rail transport provides sustainable travel, including energy efficiency for mass suburban commuting, freight transport, and high speed links for intercity corridors. In recent years, mobility needs have stimulated rolling stock orders, including high-speed trains, electrical multiple units (EMUs), locomotives and metros. Growth is likely to average 2 to 2.5 % annually, and total market volume is expected to reach over 40 billion euros per annum by 2016.
Rail transport, whether it is heavy rail or urban rail transport, is very dependent on the quality of the infrastructure that supports it, and that includes cables and cabling systems for telecommunications and energy. Modern high-speed trains demand cables with different characteristics in terms of bandwidth, safety, electromagnetic immunity and resistance.
A cable manufacturer should be able to offer a range of high-quality cables from one supplier, energy, data and radio-based technologies, installation for mainline, mass transit, tunnels, right-of-ways, also enhanced fire performance for public and infrastructure safety. Cable efficiency, compactness, lightness, and resistance, low costs, minimum maintenance, easy upgrades are in the same time real challenges for a cable producer.
Nexans provides a complete range of cables and accessories for different railway networks projects.
Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers of systems, subsystems and components are playing a critical role in the Rail Revolution worldwide. They want to meet railway and transit authority demands for quality, safety and reliability. They are also interested in improving supply-and-delivery logistics and creating new customer-driven services. Passenger and freight transport are increasingly global and need a wide range of cable solutions which are readily available and fully compliant with national and world standards.
What should clients expect from a cable producer?
• Comprehensive range of high-quality rolling stock cables
• Common products that meet railway standards worldwide
• Integrated systems and harnesses to simplify installation
• Longer lifetime for cost savings and lower maintenance
• Increased energy-efficiency, compactness and lightness
• Services to lower cost-of-ownership and increase competitiveness
In answer to this challenge, Nexans produces a full range of data and energy cables and components found in modern rolling stock.
Nexans innovation reinforces railway safety and security
- Rail-driven innovation
- Better signaling and traffic control.
Advanced cable solutions
- Nexans cables and services are contributing to the renewal of railroads, tramways and metros worldwide.
Layers of vital protection
- Cables are constantly menaced by cold, heat, stress, water, chemical impact, and vibration.
Eurobalise cables for safer train travel
- Nexans developed halogen-free signaling cables for ETCS Eurobalise applications.
All-in-one DuoTrack® for easy electrification
- By combining copper-based functions and fiber-optic transmission in a single rail-attached cable, DuoTrack® provides an all-in-one infrastructure for regional lines similar to the security and performance level of main lines in terms of signaling, train control, telecommunications and advanced ETCS and GSM-R
Nexans brings energy to life through an extensive range of cables and cabling solutions that deliver increased performance for our customers worldwide.
Nexans’ teams are committed to a partnership approach that supports customers in four main business areas: Power transmission and distribution (submarine and land), Energy resources (Oil & Gas, Mining and Renewables), Transportation (Road, Rail, Air, Sea) and Building (Commercial, Residential and Data Centers).
For further information, please don’t hesitate to contact us at inforomania@nexans.com
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