Rail Engineer has published an interesting article!
The first FFU longitudinal bulks and cross sleepers were installed in UK in 2014. This article describes their current appearance after 10 years of operations.
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It is our honor to get to work more with Network Rail, and to contribute to the safe, stable, ...
In 1980, the first FFU Synthetic Railway Sleepers were installed in actual railway track. In 2010, 30 years after the installation, the Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI) in Japan conducted a follow-up survey of the sleepers. They concluded in the report that “the sleepers after 30 years in service...are considered unlikely to present any problems ...
Nos enorgullece anunciar que la traviesa sintética FFU ha sido aprobada oficialmente para su uso en vía general, túneles y puentes metálicos en ADIF (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias), la red ferroviaria nacional de España.
Nuestros primeros proyectos con ADIF han tenido lugar en un puente metálico, en un túnel y vía general en la población de
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We are honored to announce that SEKISUI Chemical’s Shiga-Ritto Plant, the mother plant of SEKISUI FFU Railway Technology in Japan, is 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, and
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It has been a busy week for us. We would like to thank all the visitors at Rail Live 2024 in Warwichshire, UK and also Direct Track Solutions Ltd.
Now, our next destinations are...
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Exhibition Name: American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA) 2024 Annual Conference & Expo
Location: Kentucky International Convention Center,
Thanks for those who met us at Rail Live 2024 in Warwichshire, UK yesterday. You have one more day to meet our team. Looking forward to meeting everyone there!
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Exhibition Name: Rail Live 2024
Location: Porterbrook’s Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre, Warwichshire, UK
Period: Wednesday 19th – Thursday 20th June
Booth #: B13 with Direct Track Solutions ...
SEKISUI CHEMICAL’s new corporate video, “SEKISUI Today 2024” has been released. This 15 minutes long video introduces how we aim to realize a sustainable society with our technologies and services.
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[0:15] Carbon recycling project with ArcelorMittal, S.A., Spain – Chemical looping technology for CO2 to CO conversion.
[2:40] Mounted ...
Thanks for those who met us at RAILcph / BaneBranchen in Copenhagen, Denmark, RAILWAY summit 2024 in Entroncamento, Portugal, and #BNSFNight in Texas, the United States last week.
Our next destinations are...
[ UK ]
Exhibition Name: Rail Live 2024
Location: Porterbrook’s Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre, Warwichshire, UK
Period: Wednesday 19th – Thursday ...
Thanks for those who visited us at RAILcph / BaneBranchen in Copenhagen, Denmark and RAILWAY summit 2024 in Entroncamento, Portugal last week.
Our next destinations are...
[ UK ]
Exhibition Name: Rail Live 2024
Location: Porterbrook’s Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre, Warwichshire, UK
Period: Wednesday 19th – Thursday 20th June
Booth #: B13 with our partner ...
This week on Tuesday 21st and Wednesday 22nd, we will be participating at RAILWAY summit 2024 in Entroncamento, Portugal with ACOSTA INGENIEROS, S.L. We will present FFU Synthetic Railway Sleeper as well as Calmmoon Rail, a web noise shielding system.
We are excited to meeting you all there!
Exhibition Name: RAILWAY summit 2024
Location: the National Railway ...
One of the great locations to replace natural wood sleepers to FFU Synthetic Railway Sleepers is open deck bridges because the specific gravity of FFU is identical to natural lumber (740kg/m3). It does not increase dead weight thus no need to review structural strength or implement additional reinforcement of the bridge structure. Its expected service life ...
A beautiful train is passing through a turnout section with FFU Synthetic Railway Sleepers. This is Chuo Line which is operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and runs through the central Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the main arteries in Tokyo - the average passenger intensity in 2019 was over 0.3 million passengers per day.
The train is entering into ...
A great article has been published in Rail Engineer! It summarizes the Network Rail Newark Flat Crossing project where FFU was used to replace the traditional hardwood to support railway tracks in 2019. It also talks about maintenance after four years. It compares maintenance requirements between 2003-2007 hardwood timber renewal and 2019-2023 FFU renewal.
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We are pleased to announce that we have renewed our website for FFU Synthetic Railway Sleeper and Calmmoon Rail web noise shielding technology. We have renewed the designs and tried our best to make it feel more comfortable for all the visitors to find the information they are looking for. We will continue to improve the contents and usability.
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In 2011, FFU Synthetic Railway Sleepers were delivered to the Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) in Pueblo, Colorado, USA, for testing. Their evaluation had been taken place at the Facility for Accelerated Service Testing (FAST) and a report was issued on Railway Track & Structure Magazine in April 2021.
According to the report, after over 10
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In 2021, ArcelorMittal and SEKISUI CHEMICAL started partnering on a project to capture and re-use carbon waste gases from the steelmaking process. Last year in 2023, we achieved a CO2 conversion rate of 90% and a hydrogen conversion rate of 75% at ArcelorMittal S.A. plant in Asturias, Spain.
Now, we are pleased to announce that we have begun a project which
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This is another installation example of FFU Synthetic Railway Sleepers in Shinkansen (high-speed line) in Japan. The sleepers with brown color are FFU Synthetic Railway Sleepers that are installed on precast slab bed at the turnout area in main line. This picture is a bird-view of Kyushu Shinkansen at Kagoshima Central Station. This station is the terminal ...
Calmmoon Rail is a rail noise reduction system from SEKISUI FFU Railway Technology. It was approved by EBA, the German Federal Railway Authority, as a rail web shielding technology in 2010 and installed in actual track for more than 80km.
In order to investigate the effectiveness of noise and vibration mitigation systems on railway track, an economic ...
Today we would like to introduce you another installation example of FFU Synthetic Railway Sleeper in Tohoku Shinkansen operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The Tohoku (“Northeastern”) Shinkansen is a Japanese high speed rail line, connecting Tokyo Station with Shin-Aomori Station in a route length of 675 km (419 miles). The maximum line speed ...
Application of FFU is not only limited to railway sleepers. Approach way to the track for road-rail vehicles is an example. FFU is one of the best structural materials around railway tracks because it is durable, electrically insulated, and can be fabricated and assembled flexibly for various usage.
We have been supplying many types of applications of FFU ...