TikhvinChemMash, par of United Wagon Company, has obtained the certificate of FBO “Register of Certification on the Federal Railway Transport” for the production of new generation tank cars for molten sulfur. Batch production is scheduled for the first quarter of 2017.
Thanks to its technical and commercial parameters the tank car for molten sulfur of model 15-6913 leaves existing counterparts far behind.
Increased tank car tank space and payload capacity of the car provide for the transport of additional 9t of freight. Between repairs run of the tank car amounts to 800,000 km or 8 years.
In the product line of the railway holding UWC it is one of the most technically complex models. The car tank is designed by the designers of “All-Union Research and Development Centre for Transportation Technology” with the participation of potential customers.
The tank car prototypes have successfully passed a series of field tests in the infrastructure, and that made it possible to take into account particular features of their operational use and to be convinced in practice that the chosen constructive solutions are correct.
According to experts, more than 85% of the fleet of tank cars for molten sulfur is in operational use, which exceeds the normative service life.
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