Skills
Wooden Sleepers
Species | Production | Certifications | Stock
Wooden sleepers treatment is our business.
Our teams are committed to providing the railway industry with the quality standards and services required to meet the demands, changes and developments of modern, efficient and effective networks through Europe.
3 production sites, 10 000 cubic meters in stock, 5 treatment vessels, 1 century’s experience: We are the leader and larger European producer of wooden sleepers
Species
oak, beech, pine and azobé are mostly used in the railway industry. Other species could be manufactured for special applications.
Production
3 State of the Art units for wood processing, boring, surfacing,
- automatic production chains for sleepers
- CNC wood processing machines
- Pre assembly units for sleepers and crossing timbers: drilled & base-plated
- Impregnation plants with Creosote or Waterborne Salts (KDS Impralit without Copper & Arsenic)
Quality and environmental Management
We are environmentally responsible and all our products are high quality Assured. Quality manuals and documented procedures define and set our standards. Our 3 production
sites are ruled under ISO 9001 & ISO 14 001 systems to guaranty high quality products. All the timber we purchase is harvested from sustainable forests. Then we signed in 2004 to PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) Policy.
Available Sotck
Wooden sleepers must be air-dried for at least 6 to 9 months after delivery. After inspection, sorting, piles storage we process sleepers in order to perform high quality treatment.
- 50 000 oak sleepers ready to manufacture
- 3 000 m³ of turnout timbers ready to manufacture
- 5 000 azobé sleepers
We can meet all customer requirements and high quality standard of EN 13 145 & UIC 863.0
