Thank you very much for visiting us at the Railway Forum Berlin yesterday! You still have one more day to meet our experts. We are at Booth J09. Don’t Miss it 😉
📅 September 2–4, 2025
📍 Estrel Congress Center, Berlin, Germany
🔗 www.railwayforum.de
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Save the date! We are heading to the Railway Forum Berlin 🚆
We are excited to present our FFU® Synthetic Wood Railway Sleepers, a reliable solution for railway infrastructure. Engineered in Japan and distributed from Düsseldorf, FFU® sleepers have been used worldwide since the 1980s for their durability, stability, and cost-efficiency.
Made using advanced ...
A locomotive is running over FFU Synthetic Railway Sleepers on a beautiful summer day! 🌻🌻🌻
FFU Synthetic Railway Sleeper is one of the best options for the replacement work of transoms on open deck steel girder bridges because:
✔️ It is a long-lasting material with high strength and durability.
✔️ Since its weight is quite similar to natural lumber, there is ...
A beautiful steam locomotive is running on the Ieyama River Bridge, which consists of FFU Synthetic Railway Sleepers. The bridge structure and railway operations are managed by the Oigawa Railway Company in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Oigawa Railway has been performing dynamic preservation operations for steam locomotives since the early 1970s and restarted ...
In September 2021, SEKISUI had a FFU Synthetic Railway Sleeper project with Väylävirasto, the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency. This bridge with a ballasted track is located in Punkasalmi, Southeast of Finland – about 40 km away from the Russian border. The old wooden sleepers were removed and stored as shown in one of the pictures, and 205 pieces of ...
We are honored to announce that SEKISUI CHEMICAL’s Shiga-Ritto Plant, the mother plant of FFU Synthetic Railway Sleeper in Japan, has been awarded the EcoVadis Gold Medal!
EcoVadis is a globally recognized assessment platform that rates businesses' sustainability based on four key categories: environmental impact, labor and human rights standards, ethics, ...
We are excited to announce that FFU has obtained the full acceptance certificate from Network Rail for use in level crossing systems as an alternative to timber layouts!
FFU is suitable for this application because:
💧 It has a high life expectancy. It is weather-resistant and absorbs almost no moisture.
🦺 Its weight is 740 kg/m3, which means that it can be ...
Thank you for visiting us for the first day of SIFER 🚆
Feel free to meet with our experts on Wednesday and Thursday. We are at booth 2-325. Don’t miss it!
Exhibition Name: SIFER 2025
📍 Lille Grand Palais, France
👉 Booth 2-325
📅 Tuesday, 24th – Thursday, 26th June
We look forward to meeting you! 😊
SEKISUI FFU Railway Technology
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Thank you very much for visiting us at Rail Live in UK last week! We were thrilled to meet you all. Now, we are heading to:
Exhibition Name: SIFER 2025
📍 Lille Grand Palais, France
👉 Booth 2-325
📅 Tuesday, 24th – Thursday, 26th June
We look forward to meeting everyone in Lille, France this week 😊
SEKISUI FFU Railway Technology
#RailLive #UK #Sifer #Lille #France ...
Thank you very much for visiting us at Rail Live yesterday. You still have one more day to meet our experts. We are at booth B13! Don’t Miss it 😉
Exhibition Name: Rail Live 2025
📍 Porterbook's Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre, UK
👉 B13 with Direct Track Solutions Ltd
📅 Wednesday 18th – Thursday 19th June
SEKISUI FFU Railway Technology
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Looking for solutions to make your railway tracks safer, more sustainable, and resilient? Then come and visit us at Rail Live this week!
We will showcase the FFU Synthetic Railway Sleeper, which has been used in more than 2,100 km of railway track all over the world and has been in reliable service for 45 years since 1980.
We look forward to meeting you all ...
FFU Synthetic longitudinal beams were installed on 135m long 5-span Shannon River Bridge UBE16 in Limerick, Ireland in 2017. This bridge is on the line between Limerick and Ennis operated by Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail, which is a single track line with bi-directional operation.
FFU Synthetic material was awarded a contract to supply with its long product ...
Thank you very much for visiting us at iaf in Münster this week. We were thrilled to meet you all 😊
Now, our next destinations are:
Exhibition Name: Rail Live 2025
📍 Porterbook's Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre, UK
👉 B13 with Direct Track Solutions Ltd
📅 Wednesday 18th – Thursday 19th June
Exhibition Name: SIFER 2025
📍 Lille Grand Palais, France
👉 Booth ...
Thanks for those who visited our booth at iaf yesterday 😊
If you have not, you still have two more days to meet our team.
We are at Booth S-423 in hall South. Don’t miss it!
Exhibition Name: iaf - 29th International Exhibition for Track Technology
📍 MCC Halle Münsterland, Münster
👉 Booth S-423 in hall South
📅 Tuesday 20th – Thursday 22nd May
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Railway Interchange is just around the corner, starting May 20th in Indianapolis. And there is no better occasion than an exhibition focused on innovation for railroads to announce some exiting news!
We are delighted to share that SEKISUI will be exhibiting in a joint booth together with voestalpine Railway Systems Nortrak at the upcoming Railway ...
We are excited to announce that we will be participating at iaf 2025 - the 28th International Exhibition for Track Technology - next month!
We will showcase our “FFU Synthetic Railway Sleeper” which has been used in more than 2,000km of railway track all over the world and have been in reliable service for 45 years since 1980.
We look forward to meeting you ...
A beautiful locomotive is running on the Togawa Bridge, which consists of FFU Synthetic Railway Sleepers.
The locomotive in the picture was made in 1946, so it is almost 80 years since its production. The steel bridge structure is even older that it was produced by Andrew Handyside & Co in UK in 1896 and were imported to Japan about 130 years ago. This ...
FFU Synthetic Railway Sleeper has 45 year experiences in actual railway tracks. Today, we would like to introduce its brief history.
In the 1970s', Japanese National Railways (JNR, currently known as JR) observed that the lifetime of wooden sleepers they were using was short and they sought new materials. SEKISUI, who is a developer of FFU which behaves like ...
One of the unique applications of FFU is asphalt formworks at railroad crossing areas. Here is an example in Tokyo, Japan.
Initially, timber was installed in this area, but the railway operator was looking for a different material. They were concerned about the possibility of pedestrians getting caught in the deteriorated wood while walking the crossings ...