OREANDA-NEWS. On 03 July 2009 was announced, that in June 2009, Interpipe was proud to welcome a multi-agency commission consisting of customer representatives from LLC ‘Sinara Transport Machines’ as well as public enterprises ‘UkrNiiv’ and ‘Ukrzaliznytsa to its production facilities at Interpipe’s NTRP mill in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. The multi-agency commission studied the manufacturing method and developed technical documentation about the wheels machining centers. During its visit the commission signed a contract on the start of production of the first consignment of 5,000 wheels centers for LLC ‘Sinara Transport Machines’.

Michael Iskov, Director for Railway Wheels Sales at KLW said:

“Already construction and technological documentation has been developed in the framework of the program as agreed by the customer and approved by the Department of Technical Policy RZD ‘Russian Railways’’. Technical requirements have also been agreed and approved for the production of the wheel center product at Interpipe NTRP mill. The rolled wheels machining centers for electric and diesel locomotives produced at Interpipe’s NTRP mill possess higher durability, reliability and are more efficient than case wheel centers. The usage of rolling wheel machining centers increases the effectiveness of freight transport and passenger traffic, which is particularly relevant in the current economic situation for machine-building companies and railway operators in Ukraine and Russia.”

Production of rolled wheels machining centers for electric and diesel locomotives at Interpipe NTRP mill is conducted according to the public Russian Federation standard GOST R 15.201-2000. Safety standard NBRWT TM-02 as used by the Federal Railway Wheels Transport of the Russian Federation (FRWT RF) has been taken as a basis for production of the wheels centers. Russian and Ukrainian standardization systems have also been considered in production processes and in the relevant documentation. Technical requirements for production have been agreed with the customer and approved by the Department of Technical Policy RZD “Russian Railways”, registered in the system of Derzhspozhivstandart of Ukraine and in operation from 14 May 2009. Product certification in the certificating system of Federal railway wheels transport is to be carried out shortly.

LLC “Sinara Transport Machines” is a division holding company set up in August 2007 by the Sinara Group. The holding includes Ural Carriage-Building Plant (Verhnyaya Pishma city, Sverdlovskiy region) that specializes in the output of different modifications of freight electric locomotives with direct current and Lyudinovskiy Diesel Locomotive Plant (Lyudinovo city, Kaluzhskiy region) that produce shutters of different modifications.