Neumarkt and Langen, Germany, 26. February 2007 – At the RAIL.ONE GmbH concrete-sleeper production plant in Langen, Germany, construction work begins today to expand the company’s own factory railway system. Installation of approx. 400 m of track is scheduled for completion around the middle of April. The company will thereby satisfy increasing demand by Deutsche Bahn AG to be able deliver concrete sleepers to track construction sites by the additional means of special rail cars. In this way, it will be possible to deliver approx. 6,000 sleepers per day by rail. Transfer of this volume of transport from roads onto rails will benefit not only roadside residents, but also the environment.
 
More than 50 staff at the Langen sleeper factory produce around 500,000 main-track sleepers and around 150,000 linear metres of turnout sleepers made of concrete. The main customers are Deutsche Bahn AG, as well as public-transit companies primarily in the German states of Hesse and Baden-Württemberg. For Richard Ziegler, CEO of RAIL.ONE GmbH, the investment for expansion of the company’s site network will ensure the competitive ability of the Langen location. At the same time, the new facilities will also optimize the use of track-renewal trains to deliver the sleepers.
 
Short profile of RAIL.ONE GmbH
RAIL.ONE GmbH – known earlier as Pfleiderer track systems – conducts business with the goal of providing comprehensively oriented systems and engineering for the entire field of railway tracks and their many and varied requirements. The company has also achieved an internationally leading position in the area of high-speed rail transportation. In addition, RAIL.ONE manufactures main-track and turnout sleepers made of concrete. In this area, RAIL.ONE GmbH – in close collaboration with its customers and partners – carries out as one-stop supplier all activities involved in product development, manufacture, and application of concrete sleepers: beginning with engineering; including production, supply, and logistics; and extending to quality management.
 
With its approx. 800 staff – from 5 plants in Germany (in Neumarkt, Coswig, Langen, Karlsruhe, and Kirchmöser), as well as at locations in 3 European countries outside Germany (in Spain, Hungary, and Romania) – RAIL.ONE GmbH delivers concrete main-track and turnout sleepers. Sales volume during the 2006 fiscal year was EUR 150 million.
 
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RAIL.ONE GmbH Pfleiderer track systems
Hedwig Blomeier
Marketing
Tel +49 9181 28-693
Fax +49 9181 28-646
hedwig.blomeier@railone.com