Railway Sleepers Manufacturing
Railway Sleepers Manufacturing. PSC Sleepers for Railways. Production of Prestressed Concrete Railway Sleepers
Prestressed concrete sleepers (or railroad ties) are principally designed in order to carry wheel loads from the rails to the ground as well as to secure rail gauge for dynamic safe movements of trains. In spite of the most common use of the prestressed concrete sleepers in railway tracks, the concrete sleepers are often modified on construction sites to fit in other systems such as cables, signaling gears, drainage pipes, etc.
Railway sleepers, also called railroad ties, railway ties or crossties, are an important railway component. Generally, the rail sleeper is always laying between two rail tracks to keep the correct space of gauge.
A concrete sleeper is a type of railway sleeper made out of steel reinforced concrete. Concrete is good in resisting compressive stress but is very weak in residing tensile stresses. Hence reinforcement is provided in the concrete wherever tensile stress is expected. Since elastic modulus of steel is quite high compared to concrete, the force developed in steel is high. A cage of reinforcements is prepared as per the design requirements, kept in the form work and then green concrete is poured.
Market Outlook
Indian railways is world’s largest railway network. Railways in India consume at about 350 Million concrete sleepers. The demand of such sleepers including Private players is expected to double to nearly 700 million sleepers in next 2 years. The Indian Railways is among the world’s largest rail networks. The Indian Railways network is spread over 115,000 km, with 12,617 passenger trains and 7,421 freight trains each day from 7,172 stations plying 23 million travelers and 3 million tons (MT) of freight daily.
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The railway network is also ideal for long-distance travel and movement of bulk commodities, apart from being an energy efficient and economic mode of conveyance and transport. The Government of India has focused on investing on railway infrastructure by making investor-friendly policies. It has moved quickly to enable Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in railways to improve infrastructure for freight and high-speed trains. At present, several domestic and foreign companies are also looking to invest in Indian rail projects.
Global Railway Sleepers market size will increase to 980 Million US$ by 2025, from 710 Million US$ in 2018, at a CAGR of 4.7% during the forecast period. South America hold a market share of 6.63% will still play an important role which cannot be ignored. Any changes from Asia-Pacific might affect the development trend of Railway Sleepers. North America also play important roles in global market.
Railway sleepers are predominantly produced from wood or concrete. Wooden sleepers are usually produced from hardwood, although soft wood is also possible depending on the application. Before the appearance of Concrete Sleepers, steel sleepers were also commonly used in the construction of railway tracks. Concrete sleepers can be produced from both new and recycled concrete.
A railway sleeper is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks. Generally laid perpendicular to the rails, ties transfer loads to the track ballast and subgrade, hold the rails upright and keep them spaced to the correct gauge. Railway sleepers are traditionally made of wood, but pre-stressed concrete is now also widely used, especially in Europe and Asia. Steel ties are common on secondary lines in the UK plastic composite ties are also employed, although far less than wood or concrete. From the view of region, Asia-Pacific and Europe have a larger sales market share in 2018 which together account for 74.02%, and will witness a stable growth in following years.
Key player
Abetong, Kirchdorfer Group, Austrak, Patil Group, Aveng Infraset, The Indian Hume Pipe, Schwihag, BSW Timber, Biatec Group (Quercus), Shandong High Speed Rail Equipment Material, Weihai Ruihe Railway Sleeper, Hengchang Railroad Sleeper, Kunming Railway Sleeper, Jingzhou Fengyuan, Bemco Sleepers Limited Khandwa, Daya Engineering Work Poles Pvt. Ltd, Kaprecon Sleeper Works Pvt. Ltd, Malu Sleepers Maharashtra Pvt. Ltd, Stresscrete Pvt. Ltd, Patil Rail Infrastrructure PVt LTd Udvada, S.Subrahmanyan and Co Kharsalia, Usha prestressed sleeper udyog Godhra, Vaman Prestressing Co Pvt Ltd Digsar,
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