List of manufacturers of concrete sleepers

Below, is a list of manufacturers of concrete sleepers.

List of plants

Angola

(Three plants needed)

• North - Bengo Province
• Centre - Liangongo - Benguela
• South - Caraculo^[1]
• South - Namialo - concrete sleeper plant.^[2]

Australia

Austrak concrete sleeper factory in Wagga Wagga

(clockwise)

• Townsville Austrak - 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) - defunct^[3]
• Mackay Austrak - 1,067 mm - defunct^[3]
• Rockhampton Austrak - 1,067 mm^[3]
  • 610 mm are also made for cane tramways.
• Mittagong - 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in)
• Taree - 1,435 mm
• Denman - 1,435 mm
• Mittagong - 1,435 mm^[4]
• Grafton - 1,435 mm ^[4]
• Wagga Wagga - 1,435 mm (Bomen) Austrak - 1,435 mm
• Geelong (Avalon) Austrak - 1,435 mm & 1610 mm (2 ft)
• Port Hedland Austrak - 1,435 mm
• Wedgefield Austrak - `610 mm, 1,067 mm, 1,435 mm^[5]
• Wickham - 1,435 mm
• Katherine Austrak - 1,435 mm - defunct^[3]
• Tennant Creek Austrak - 1,435 mm - defunct^[3]
• Austrak - Australia's largest manufacturer of concrete railway sleepers^[6]

Azerbaijan

• Sleeper Factory Baku ^[7]

Bangladesh

• Chhatak^[8]

Botswana

• Gaborone - Kwena Concrete Works^[9]

Bulgaria

• Svishtov ^[10]
• ZPSV-Varna ^[11]

Cameroon

• Bélabo ^[12]

China

• China United Railway Logistics^[13]

Democratic Republic of Congo

• Due 2012 ^[14]

Ethiopia

• Dire Dawa - 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in)^[15][16]

Georgia

• Concrete Sleeper Plant - 1,520 mm, 1435 mm

Germany

• 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in)^[17]
• DW Schwellen Güsen sleeper production plant - see http://www.thosti.com.de/guesen-sleeper-production-plant.html and http://dw-schwellen.de/unternehmen/werke/guesen/index.html
• DW Schwellen Neuss sleeper production plant - see http://dw-schwellen.de/unternehmen/werke/neuss/index.html
• DW Schwellen Augsburg sleeper production plant - see http://dw-schwellen.de/unternehmen/werke/augsburg/index.html

Ghana

• Huni Valley - 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in)/1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) dual gauge (?)^[18]
• Number: 2 m
• Cost: Euro 85m
• Cost each: Euro 42.5 per sleeper.
• Cost of plant: Euro 7
• Jobs: 130
• Output: 400,000 per annum
• Output: 1096 per day (about 0.5 km of track).
• Makers: Kampac and Rail.One
• Gauge: possibly dual gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in)/1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)

1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in) gauge.

In 2014, a new siding from Lomé across the border from Togo to a cement works in Ghana opened using concrete sleepers.^[19]

Greece

• Sleeper Factory Trikala - Strotires ^[20]

India

• ^[21] First use in 1977^[22]
• Hindustan Prefab Limited^[23]
• PCM Group - 3 plants - first in 1991^[24]
• Patil Group - 8 plants - first in 1971^[25]
• Nandgaon, Maharashtra
• Madhepura^[26]
• Kathua^[27]
• Vishal Nirmiti^[28]

Iraq

• Abu Ghraib^[21]

Kenya

• 2005 - proposed^[29][30]
• 2015 Emali - temporary ^[31]

Korea, North

• Rahung^[32]

Korea, South

• Pusan^[33]

Libya

• Khoms^[34] by Walterbau,^[35] Germany.
• Ra's Lanuf - for Russian contract

Malawi

• plant supplied earlier by same maker as plant for Mozambique (Nacala).^[36]

Malaysia

• Malaysia - various gauges, mainly 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in)

Mastrak concrete sleeper and turnout bearer factory in Negeri Sembilan

• Mastrak Sdn Bhd. Established in 1981, located in Batang Benar, Negeri Sembilan^[37] with some shares held by A-Betong AB,^[38] and was previously under management of Australia's Austrak Pty Ltd ^[3][39]
• Capable of producing 17,000 pre-stressed concrete sleepers per month
• 4,000 metres of turnout bearers in a month. The turnout bearer utilizes technologies from Voestalpine (VAE)
• Quality Management System ISO 9001:2008 valid till 2 Nov 2017, (cert no. Q878088 issue date 3 Nov 2014)
• As of early 2015, Mastrak Sdn Bhd had supplied more than 2.7 million units of sleepers, and about 300 sets of turnout bearers
• Main client being Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB), Klang Valley MRT, Sabah State Railway, IRCON
• Due to its longstanding history, it also served as field reference for studies by local university students ^[40][41][42]

Mozambique

• Namialo for northern line of Caminhos de ferro do Moçambique (CFM) of Nacala to the Malawian border.^[36][43]
• Dondo^[44]
• Sena - 600 per day

Namibia

• Tsumeb^[45][46]

New Zealand

• Te Rapa, Hamilton, North Island ^[47]

Pakistan

• Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ^[48]
• Khanewal, Punjab
• Sukkur, Sindh
• Kotri, Sindh

Poland

• Goczalkow sleeper production plant ^[49]

Romania

• Metabet
• Dunapref -Blejoi ^[50][51]
• Dunapref -Giurgiu ^[51][52]

Russia

• Viazma^[53]

Saudi Arabia

• Ha'il - Transport in Saudi Arabia 32.5T axleload - 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in)^[54]
• Rail. one^[55]
• PCM Strescon Overseas Ventures Ltd, Manufacturers of Heavy Haul Concrete Sleepers with capacity of 100,000 sleepers a month^[56]
• Hofuf sleeper production plant ^[57]

Sierra Leone

• Racegroup^[58]

South Africa

• Infraset^[59][60]

Sudan

• Sudan - north Khartoum, producing 2000 at first stage concrete sleepers a day.^[61][62] by Shanghai Hui Bo Investment Co (SHIC) ^[63]
• Cost of factory - $5m^[61]

Switzerland

• Tribeton^[64]

Syria

• Sleeper Factory Homs ^[65]

Tanzania

• Tanzania called tenders in 2008 for sleeper plant.

Thailand

• Wihan Daeng in Saraburi Province^[66]

Togo

In 2014, a new siding from Lomé across the border into Ghana to a cement works opened using concrete sleepers.^[19]

Turkey

• Sleeper Factory Denizli ^[67]

United Arab Emirates

• Mirfa - Etihad Rail

United Kingdom

• Trackwork Moll Ltd.^[68]

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