Publish Date : 22-Sep-2016
ArcelorMittal has secured rail deliveries to Deutsche Bahn for another year, until 2018. The rails will support the Deutsche Bahn network renewal and expansion programmes. Beyond the delivery contract, ArcelorMittal and Deutsche Bahn are also cooperating to develop new rail products together. Following this contract extension, ArcelorMittal will have supplied Deutsche Bahn continuously for four years.
The German rail network provider will receive rails from ArcelorMittals production facilities in Spain and Poland, totalling an annual amount of up to 147,000 tons or 2,500km in length. "We are very pleased to continue working with Deutsche Bahn", comments Augustine Kochuparampil, CEO of ArcelorMittal Europe Long Products.
Future deliveries include 120m rails from Dabrowa Gornicza in Poland, where the group produces rails at its heavy section mill, one of the few sites in the world capable of producing rails of this length. Suitable for high-speed trains, the 120m rails provide high safety standards due to a reduced need for welding.
At the beginning of September, ArcelorMittal started delivering 1,200 tons of the 120m rails to renew a 20km railroad track between Rostock and Wismar in East Germany. This line secures public transport in the region and also provides the infrastructure for long-distance freight transport from and to the port in Wismar.
Uwe Gnther, Chief Procurement Officer of Deutsche Bahn: Deutsche Bahn focuses on a very strong and strategic partnership with their suppliers, based on a common supplier management system. We purchase products and services in accordance with technical and commercial criteria, especially quality, logistics and costs. I believe that this is a win-win situation for both DB and ArcelorMittal. We are proud that one of the worlds largest suppliers of rails belongs to our portfolio.
ArcelorMittal is one of the world`s largest suppliers of rails for railways, subways, tram, light tracks, crossings, crane rails and rail components. From its sites in Gijn, Dabrowa Grnicza and Huta Krolewska (Poland) and Rodange (Luxembourg), it supplies rails and track fittings of the highest quality to the European market and the rest of the world.
ArcelorMittal has supplied rails for the underground and intercity railway lines for some of the largest cities in the world. Apart from the DB rail network, ArcelorMittal also supplies rails to other European rail networks such as ADIF (Spain), RFI (Italy) and SNCF (France).
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