Baku, Azerbaijan, March 15
By Elena Kosolapova - Trend:
Kazakhstan’s Aktobe rail plant (ARBZ) plans to export over 60,000 tons of rails to Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Belarus, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Russia, Estonia and Iran within the existing contracts in 2017, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (Kazakh Railways) company said in a message March 15.
Aktobe plant also meets the demand of the domestic market. Since March 2016 the plant has supplied over 70,000 tons of rails to the domestic market and about 500 kilometers of its rails have been used in construction of Kazakhstan’s railway network.
Within an agreement signed with Kazakh Railways, the plant will supply over 600,000 tons of rails to the domestic market until 2022.
Long rails produced by ARBZ have high operational and technical characteristics and increases the length of the long-welded sections of the railway, which, in turn, ensure high-speed train traffic and reduce costs for maintaining rolling stock and the road itself.
Aktobe rail plant was launched in June 2016. The plant has certified its rail products in line with to Russian State Standard (GOST) R 51685-2013, which is commonly used in majority of the post-soviet countries.
The annual designed capacity of the plant is 430,000 tons of products including 200,000 tons of thermo-strengthened long rails.
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