BESPOKE ALUMINIUM FOR THE RAIL MARKET
Significant amounts of aluminium are used throughout the rail market in modern railway vehicles for both passenger transport and freight. Its properties allow for increased speeds and lower energy consumption, giving improved performance on existing infrastructures.
Train and railway advancements have seen an increase in usage for raw materials and finished goods alike. When aluminium is used to transport materials, the return on investment is much greater than other materials. This is due to the increased load capacities which can be transported, increasing efficiency and profitability.
In the public transport sector, aluminium is used to meet the rising demand for trams and light rail in city centres worldwide. Giving increased energy efficiency and performance, aluminium is the perfect material to form the basis of rail transport systems. With sustainability and environmental factors being a bigger and bigger concern, aluminium is the perfect answer.
For more information on the design, manufacture and delivery services available from Simmal, get in touch with us today and we can discuss how you can best utilise aluminium usage within the rail industry.
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INDUSTRY CASE STUDY
SERVICE PROVIDED: ALUMINIUM
A customer within the rail industry required a product to house sensitive electronic equipment. The component required complex machining to tight tolerances with a specialised coating finish to electronically passivate it.
Our engineering team worked alongside one of our large profile extrusion specialist suppliers to determine the best and worst case deviations on form to the agreed tolerance specifications. From this data, bespoke machining programs were created to individually modify each machining cycle to match the variations in extrusion. This allowed machining detail to +/-0.1mm to be achieved into the end of a ‘box’ profile with dimensions of over 260mm x 168mm with a wall thickness of over 5mm.