The integrated EHS (Environment, Health and Safety) Management System implemented by Margaritelli Ferroviaria and already ISO 14001 certified, obtains the certificate in compliance with the ISO 45001 standard.
The new testing facility of Rodallo (TO) obtains the certificate as Accredited Laboratory from the Italian Accreditation Body (ACCREDIA), in compliance with the standard EN ISO/IEC 17025:2018 for static, dynamic, and fatigue tests on concrete railway sleepers according to the standard EN13230-2.
Margaritelli Ferroviaria opens the new Testing Laboratory located in the facility of Rodallo (ITALY), equipped with the most advanced devices and technologies in the testing field of the railway track industry.
The new production facility in Ambronay (FRANCE), with a yearly capacity of over 200,000 sleepers, starts operations after the assessment and the authorization obtained from SNCF.
Margaritelli Ferroviaria will also be present at the 2019 edition of Expo Ferroviaria, an inevitable trade fair for rail transport operators around the world. The company thus intends to confirm what was already positive on the occasion of the previous edition.
We are waiting for you at Rho Fiera Milano, PAD 1, stand A70.
To increase the stability and safety of the track at the isolated joint of the circuit for signalling the presence of trains, also increasing the degree of protection of the wiring from accidental damage but without compromising the normal mechanized maintenance operations, Margaritelli Ferroviaria presents on the market an innovative solution consisting of a kit of special sleepers that, assembled at the origin in a single system with the insulated joints and their cables, it also simplifies the transport and laying operations along the track.
Margaritelli Ferroviaria S.p.A. made its debut appearance at the 2016 edition of Innotrans, which is held in Berlin every two years. It is the most important international trade exhibition in the sector of railway transportation technologies. The number of visitors to the stand from all over the world greatly exceeded expectations. Visitors showed a lot of interest in the innovative technical track laying solutions the company presented at the fair: from PRC sleepers for tunnels to those incorporating USP, the sleeper model for housing a eurobalise and relative wiring, the rail wiring sleeper system and sleepers for insulated joints in track signalling circuits, as well as the company’s environmentally friendly impregnation treatment for wooden sleepers.
Rocla Concrete Ties, Inc. is the largest US manufacturer of PRC sleepers with a production capacity of over 3,000,000 sleepers per annum distributed across seven production plants. For their new production facility in Fort Pierce, Florida, they have selected the reliability and advantages that come with a technologically advanced post-tensioning system for pre-compression using sheathed tendons, developed and patented by Margaritelli Ferroviaria S.p.A. When plant installation was complete technical consultants from Margaritelli Ferroviaria S.p.A. mentored Rocla personnel to get the plant up and running, providing them with the technical expertise necessary to optimise operations and manage production.
Margaritelli Ferroviaria S.p.A. is the first Italian manufacturer to have been granted certified approval for its PRC sleepers with integrated USP (Under Sleeper Pad), in compliance with technical specifications set out for supplying the Italian Railway Network (RFI). This is an important certification, indispensable if we are to market the product on an industriale scale. It is the result of all the hard work done in research and development which began back in 2011. Including a long period of experimentation on the line, in order to measure improvements in track performance on high speed lines and in tunnels. The results of this research were presented to the RFI on 12 May 2016 at the CIFI convention under the conference title “Innovative materials for railway construction: PRC sleepers and cross-pieces fitted with USPs”. Other important factors in gaining RFI approval were perfecting the sleeper pad application process and establishing standards for monitoring and product testing.
The Ambronay facility is located in the Rhône-Alpes region. Since 2008, more than 200,000 PRC sleepers have moved through the storage facility annually, arriving by rail from Italy destained for SNCF developments. Building work has been completed and work has begun on setting up a new production plant at this site, which we estimate will be fully operational in early 2017.
