Evraz NTMK to Produce Extra-Hard Railway Wheels
05/20/2011 - Evraz NTMK claims to have become the first Russian company to master the production technology of extra-hard railway wheels. Certification of these goods on overseas markets is the next step.
Evraz NTMK claims to have become the first Russian company to master the production technology of extra-hard railway wheels. Wheels of 350 to 390 Brinell units of hardness are designed for use on arterial railways.
Evraz says that once the certification of an experimental batch of new goods on overseas markets has been completed, the construction of the order book will begin.
Specialists from Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant and the Russian Scientific Research Institute of Railway Transport took part in the research and development of the production technology. The researchers focused on the steel chemical compound used, the heating temperature of work pieces, and the cool-down rate of wheels, leading to the discovery of a chemical compound for steel with a high concentration of carbon and alloying elements.
”Work on the development of extra-hard wheels provides us with the opportunity to enter foreign markets with our products. In this instance, the first market we will target is the North American market,” said Alexey Ivanov, Vice President and Head of the Steel Division of Evraz. “We are now ready to offer our customers absolutely new railway wheels of a quality which nobody in Russia has yet been able to produce. Certification of these goods on overseas markets will be the next step.”
