From August 10th to 15th is Japanese Summer Holiday called Bon Holiday. SEKISUI FFU Railway Technology Team in Japan will be out of office and the production plant will be closed during this time. We will resume our business after the holiday, August 16th.
In Japan, it is believed that each year during Bon holiday, the ancestors’ spirit return to this world ...
Sustainability Report 2022, which contains all information relating to the sustainability activities of SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group, has been issued through our corporate website. The aim of this report is to inform stakeholders on the Group’s various initiatives and deepen their understanding of its activities to realize both a sustainable society and ...
This incredible replacement work was done at one of the railway bridges in Australia. FFU Synthetic Railway Sleepers were chosen as a replacement material of worn out timber transoms at open deck bridge.
Since FFU Synthetic Railway Sleepers weight is identical to natural lumber, there is no need to review structural strength or implement additional ...
We are proud to announce that we have obtained the product approval for Calmmoon Rail from ADIF (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias), the national railway in Spain.
Calmmoon Rail is a rail noise reduction system from SEKISUI FFU Railway Technology. In order to cover the rail, Calmmoon Rail has a triangular shape. It consists of thin steel plate, ...
This is another project SEKISUI had with Deutsche Bahn (DB), German Railway.
This bridge locates in Hamm, a city in the North Rhine-Westphalia State in Western Germany. 164 pieces of FFU Synthetic Railway Sleepers (w/h/l = 24/26-36/300cm) were delivered to DB for this project.
Since it was a curve section, there was a rail inclination on the track. As shown ...
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 ...
In the early summer in 2020, ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways) renewed Nordbahn Bridge with FFU Synthetic Railway Sleeper. This bridge locates in the center of Vienna across the Danube River. It connects Handelskai Station and Neue Donau Station on U6 of the Vienna U-Bahn which opened in 1996.
More than 1,500 pieces of FFU Synthetic Railway Sleepers (w/h/l = ...
In the early summer in 2020, ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways) renewed Nordbahn Bridge with FFU Synthetic Railway Sleeper. This bridge locates in the center of Vienna across the Danube River. It connects Handelskai Station and Neue Donau Station on U6 of the Vienna U-Bahn which opened in 1996.
More than 1,500 pieces of FFU Synthetic Railway Sleepers (w/h/l = ...
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 Oigawa Railway Company in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Oigawa Railway performed the operations of dynamic preservations for steam locomotives from early 1970’s, and restarted its ...
A great article about FFU Synthetic Railway Sleeper has been published in Rail Engineer, one of the most popular railway magazines in the Great Britain. It mainly describes about how FFU can contribute to the sustainability and safety of the railway track and why it could suit as a substitute for timber.
Please take a look at the article to get a better ...
iaf – the 28th International Exhibition for Track Technology 2022 in Münster, Germany has now started. You have three days to meet our team.
We look forward to meeting everyone there, in the hall “middle” at booth M-203!
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After a long silence, we are finally back at iaf – the 28th International Exhibition for Track Technology 2022, which will be held next week from 31st May to 2nd June in Münster, Germany. You can not only find FFU Synthetic Railway Sleeper, but also our rail web noise shielding system Calmmoon Rail.
We look forward to meeting you all next week in the hall ...
SEKISUI is having another outstanding project with Deutsche Bahn (DB), German Railway. 8,600 pieces of FFU Synthetic Railway Sleepers (w/h/l = 260/240-280/2,600mm) will be installed on Rendsburg High Bridge, which locates in North Germany. The first few thousand pieces have already been delivered to DB, and another 1,600 pieces are now ready to travel the ...
We would like to update you on the new FFU Synthetic Railway Sleeper production plant in Roermond, the Netherlands. As shown in the pictures, the construction of the nice green colored building has almost been completed, and we plan to bring in the production machineries to the plant within the next few months. We are excited to start the production in ...
From April 29th to May 8th is Japanese Spring Holiday called Golden Week. It is a collection of national holidays and many offices will be closed during this time. Sekisui in Japan will be also closed, so we will resume our business after Golden Week.
In Japan, we hang up “Koinobori,” carp streamer, outside of the house on Children’s Day on May 5th. ...
SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD., INCJ, LTD., and SEKISUI BIO REFINERY CO., LTD. (SBR) have completed construction of a demonstration plant in Kuji City, Iwate, Japan with the aim of demonstrating the viability of the technology that converts municipal/industrial waste into ethanol on a commercial scale. This technology uses a microbial catalyst and gas ...
In the middle of March 2022, Network Rail installed FFU on a bridge in Fort William, Scotland. This was the first project we supplied using our stock in Germany, held with the aim to dramatically shorten our lead time to a matter of weeks
8 pieces of FFU Longitudinal Bulk were taken from stock, adjusted to the required sizes (w/h/l = ...
In September 2021, SEKISUI had a FFU Synthetic Railway Sleeper project with Väylävirasto, the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency. This bridge with ballasted track locates 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 the ...
SEISUI CHEMICAL, the manufacturer of FFU Synthetic Railway Sleeper, was selected as a 2021 Semi-Nadeshiko Brand with outstanding performance in encouraging female empowerment by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Tokyo Stock Exchange on March 22, 2022. SEKISUI CHEMICAL has been chosen as a Nadeshiko Brand in fiscal years 2016, 2017, 2019 and ...
In the middle of March, 2022, Network Rail, a government owned railway company in the Great Britain, installed their first level crossing with FFU in Snargate which is a village in South East England. For a smooth and quick installation, Network Rail was seeking for a material that can be lifted up by two to three people by hand. The weight of FFU is almost
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