Freight

Heavy Duty VHD Wheels

More than 30 years experience in heavy haul

More than 30 years experience in heavy haul

Tailor-made solutions from our R&D department adapted to your specific requirements. Hardness and steel grades designed according to your applications.

Surpass AAR M107/208 requirements

Surpass AAR M107/208 requirements

Very high cleanliness and specially developed steel grades (with targeted micro-alloying). Optimized wheel and wheelset geometries to improve life, reduce wear and weight and improve safety.

Increased payload

Improved wheelset design can help you increase both your axle loads up to 40 tons and thence the payload by reducing the weight of the wheelset.

Wheel life improvement

By working closely with our customers we have been able to increase wheel life up to an average 1.7 million km.

Worldwide experience

Worldwide experience

Our products are currently in service throughout the world, giving us a wide experience of all extreme conditions: - 40°C to + 45°C, desert, arctic, tropical, mountain, steep gradients…

Quality and safety

Special steels, specific heat treatments and optimized wheelset design not only enhance wheel life and increase payloads but also significantly improve railroad safety.

Our main references

BHP Billiton (Australia), QCM, QNSL, Wabush Mine, Canadian Pacific, Canadian National,
Via Rail (Canada), Comilog (Gabon), SNIM (Mauritania), Transnet (South Africa)...

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