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- Product life forecasted with more than 50 years
- Minimum lifecycle costs
- Minimum maintenance costs
- Maximum track system availability
- Short possessions for installing FFU railway sleepers
- Reduction in maintenance costs and effort in the rail infrastructure
- LCC analysis by the Technical University of Graz/Austria shows that their use is economic for open steel bridges with a bridge life expectancy of 15 years or more
- LCC analysis by the University for Technology and Architecture in Freiburg/Switzerland indicates for switches
- economic benefits of 8 to 12% when wood is replaced with FFU
- economic benefits of 7 to 14% compared to a replacement of wood with concrete sleepers where the substructure must also be refurbished
Safety
- Proven track record with more than 1,400 km of track fitted
- In daily use for over 35 years
- Gauge reliability in case of derailment
- Increased safety of the railway system overall
- Continuously excellent material technical properties
- Quality controlled material
Environment
- Free from insecticides
- No water absorption
- Very high chemical resistance
- Very high resistance to weathering
- No chemical effect on soil and water
- 100% recyclable
Project
- Customised, dimensionally stable production to the millimetre ex works
- Machinability during project the same as that of natural wood
- Specific weight is the same as for natural wood
- Use of standard tools
- Use of existing rail fastening devices
- No change in the unladen weight of a bridge
- Constant static load bearing system of a railway bridge
- Visual appearance of the bridge remains intact
- Very high elastic load bearing ability – switch frog
- Good interlocking with ballast
- Very good electrical insulation
