TikhvinChemMash has delivered new generation tank cars of Tpr dimension to Metafrax
TikhvinChemMash (CJSC), part of RPC United Wagon Company (UWC) has started the mass production of a new generation of tank cars for methanol transportation within the Tpr dimension. The first batch of freight cars has already been shipped to PJSC Metafrax, the largest Russian producer of methanol and its derivatives.
The car for methanol model 15-6880-01 is the second model on UWC’s product line and features an increased body space thanks to the Tpr dimension. In terms of dimension, its design is similar to the design of tank car for ammonia.
The cars will significantly improve the efficiency of methanol transportation. The payload capacity of the new model is 71.7t and the tank car tank volume has been increased by 8.5 m3 to 94 m3.
Chief of Transport Department of Metafrax, Igor Chukreev said: “These are freight cars of the future, to which there are no counterparts neither in Russia nor in the entire post-Soviet space. We will be the first company to load them, dispatch and evaluate, and this work is of great interest to us”.
First Deputy CEO for Strategy and Product at RPC United Wagon Company, Alexey Sokolov said: “Rolling stock dimensions increase within the current parameters of the railway infrastructure is a logical and effective method to increase volumes of freight traffic. Specialists of RZD have conducted check-studies which have shown that freight cars of Tpr dimension can be operated on public tracks practically without restrictions”.
According to the market experts, there will be a great demand for this type of rolling stock within the next five years: the predicted write-off will amount to 1.4 thousand units, i.e. about a third of the current fleet of methanol tank cars on the network.
For more information visit www.uniwagon.com
27th Feb 2017
