Visiting Sekisuis manufacturing plant for FFU Sleepers in Ritto Plant, Japanese high speed line used by Shinkansen trains with slab and ballast tracks, areas like switches, turnouts and steel bridges prepared with FFU sleepers have been main reason for this business journey. Additionally I saw state of the art technology for noise prodection for steel bridges and rails already in use.
1st of July 2007 Dr. Günther Koller became accreditation to consultant of export from incite - the quality academy of WKO (Austrian Trade Organisation): He is accreditated for: Arabian Emirates, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Nederland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey.
The Japan Company Sekisui is worldwide the only producer of plastic foamed body sleepers reinforced with long glass fibers. Because of easy workability and low life cycle costs clients ÖBB and Wiener Linien used this already for two bridges in Vienna.
Pictures of railway projects incl. Shinkansen
Comparison Life Cycle cost railway sleepers (October 2007)
LCC synthetic wood for railway sleepers compared to wooden railway sleeper
Savings potential using synthetic wood for railway sleepers compared to wooden railway sleeper
LCC/savings potential 40m bridge project 1,75% yearly price increases
LCC/savings potential 800m bridge project 1,75% yearly price increases
LCC/savings potential 40m bridge project 2,00% yearly price increases
LCC/savings potential 800m bridge project 2,00% yearly price increases
LCC/savings potential 40m bridge project 2,50% yearly price increases
LCC/savings potential 800m bridge project 2,50% yearly price increases
LCC/savings potential 40m bridge project 3,00% yearly price increases
LCC/savings potential 800m bridge project 3,00% yearly price increases
Visiting the Company Kalebozan in Ankara and the first high speed railway project between Ankara and Eskeshir. The flash butt welding works will be finished on the end of may 2007.
Invitation of mine to visit India through the owner of construction company NCC Hydarabad/India. Getting an impression of the Indian construction market especially on the base of existing infrastructure.
Evaluation for the first railway infrastructure project in Trinidad.
