Adhesive bonding joints are an integral part of rail vehicle design. Part of our development activities in AV R&D are deals with both partial tests of adhesive bonding joints in the AV R&D Testing Center and the development of special test equipment for testing adhesive bonding joints in accordance with DIN 6701. Laboratory tests of…
Czech technology and real estate group TTC is expanding its business in the field of modern technologies by establishing a new company TTC MOBILE. It will focus on the use of 5G technologies in the energy, transport and industrial sectors and will work very closely with its sister company TTC MARCONI. Fifth-generation mobile networks provide…
Škoda Group has signed contracts with Egyptian National Railways (ENR) to modernise and maintain at least 280 electro-diesel locomotives. The project marking Škoda Group expansion into Africa, consists of two contracts. The first is for the overhaul of locomotives over a period of nine years, followed by a full-service maintenance up to 15 years. Most…
The AŽD company signed a contract with the Hungarian construction company V4SIL (part of the V-Híd holding) for the supply of modern signalling technologies and a unified European Train Control System ETCS L2 level for the Soroksár – Kelebia project. This is the second, this time a major contract for the Hungarian railway network that…
Škoda Group, a leading European manufacturer of components and vehicles for public transport, starting a strategic technological cooperation with Tesmec Group, a renowned company specializing in infrastructure technologies. This collaboration, facilitated by Tesmec Rail, Tesmec’s subsidiary dedicated to railway solutions, aims to revolutionize the railway working and diagnostic vehicles sector, creating cutting-edge, high-performance, and environmentally…
DAKO-CZ, a manufacturer of braking systems and components for rail vehicles from Třemošnice, East Bohemia, has defended the Czech Business Superbrands award for 2023. The judges were convinced by the economic results, growth and new projects of the company with more than two hundred years of tradition. The only Czech manufacturer of brakes for rolling…
Electric multiple units newly designated as KTX-Eum were previously known as EMU-260. The word ‘Eum’ in Korean means ‘uniting through connection’, thus symbolising the fact that the dense high-speed rail network contributes significantly to integrate the entire South Korean society. The multiple units are manufactured by Hyundai Rotem in Changwon. The trainset with the total…
The cooperation between companies Borcad and RETEX has resulted in a unique product designed for rolling stock. These are seats with special MEPAR and UNTEX VSS textiles. The seats will appear, for example, in carriages manufactured for Czech Railways by the Škoda Transportation – Siemens consortium, in Estonian Railways carriages manufactured by Škoda Transporatation and…
The prolongation process of the accreditation of the Test centre for railway rolling stock and container VÚKV a.s. for next five years based on several-day assessing carried out by the Czech Accreditation Institute according to ČSN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2018 was successfully crowned in late April and early May 2023 without any recorded disagreement during the…
DAKO-CZ will deliver hydraulic brake units, including controls, for a total of 80 modernized trams to Göteborg, Sweden, in the upcoming years. The manufacturer of brake systems and components for rail vehicles from Třemošnice in East Bohemia will produce them in the upcoming years for the sets that will be modernized by Škoda Group at…