Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko (ZSSK) has ordered five more four-car low-floor electric units of the RegioPanter type. ZSSK is exercising the option included in the contract for the delivery of 9 electric units with an option for another 11 units, which was signed by ZSSK with the consortium of Škoda Group and ŽOS Trnava in September…
Modern trolleybuses will appear on the streets of Pilsen in the coming years. Pilsen City Transport Company (PMDP) has signed a framework contract with Škoda Group for the delivery of up to 33 Škoda 26Tr trolleybuses and up to 20 Škoda 27Tr trolleybuses. The delivery of the vehicles will start next year, and the framework…
Meeting the growing demand for railway bearings, ZKL Group has started in 2022 new investments in the field of metrology and NDT for the automation and optimization of axle bearings´ production in its production plants in Brno and Klášterec nad Ohří. Investments in Brno´s plant include the acquisition of new precision CNC grinding machines and…
On 15.11.2022 Kontron Transportation handed over the GSM-R system on the line section Kralupy nad Vltavou – Neratovice to the Správa železnic (Railway Administration). GSM-R (Global System for Mobile Communications – Railway) is the latest international standard for wireless communication in the railway environment. The main focus of the project was the construction of the…
It’s been a year already since SKD TRADE, a.s. announced the successful homologation of flexible segments for 15T tram wheels for the Transport Company of the Capital City of Prague so the original rubber segments will be replaced with this special polyurethane (PUR) segments. On October 19, 2022, utility model no. 36455 was registered for…
The production plant in Ostrava, a subsidiary and two joint ventures with key partners in India. The manufacturer of brake systems and components, the Třemošnice company DAKO-CZ, is experiencing a successful period. Since 2019, when it reached one billion in sales for the first time, it has been growing by more than twenty percent a…
VUZ specializes in providing professional services and complex solutions in the field of assessment, certification and testing of rolling stock, railway systems and transport. The VUZ Test Centre Velim offers two top-class test circuits and extensive testing facilities. New in the VUZ portfolio are FEM (Finite Element Method) calculation services designated not only for railway…
Increasing traffic safety is a current topic in rail transport. This problem is solved by the chosen pan-European ERTMS/ETCS strategy. As part of this strategy, the existing lines and infrastructure are equipped with stationary ETCS elements, while the driving vehicles are equipped with mobile elements of the ETCS system. AV R&D continues to supply complete…
2022 was undoubtedly a year of challenges for BORCAD. After 32 years since the establishment of the company, its founder and owner Ivan Boruta decided to sell it. The new owners are private equity funds Genesis Capital and Integral Venture Partners from the Czech Republic and Hungary. “The decision to look for new partners for…
Stadler Rail will produce 42 five-car EMU’s for the Tyne & Wear Metro in Newcastle, United Kingdom. The VÚKV a.s. testing laboratory carried out stationary rotational resistance moment measurements on the measuring turntable in the new VÚKV testing hall, safety against derailment tests on a twisted track and sway tests of one EMU. Both last-mentioned…