EVRAZ NTMK to Make Lastochka Wheels
29 June 2016 (12:03)
UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 29, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) got a certificate allowing it to make wheels for Lastochka, a high-speed electric train, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports.
The paper was issued by Russia’s Federal Railway Transport Certification Register and is valid through 2021.
The 920-mm Lastochka wheels are made from carbonized Type 2 steel in accordance with the Russian GOST standard. The product hardness comes to 255-320 HB. NTMK had to make a pilot set of wheels for them to get assessed and accepted by an ad hoc committee comprising representatives of Ural Locomotives, Russian Railways, the All-Russian Railway Transport Scientific Research Institute, and NTMK technicians. The pilot set got then tested at a special authorized lab.
The high-speed Lastochka trains get assembled at Sinara Group’s Ural Locomotives in the Urals.
The paper was issued by Russia’s Federal Railway Transport Certification Register and is valid through 2021.
The 920-mm Lastochka wheels are made from carbonized Type 2 steel in accordance with the Russian GOST standard. The product hardness comes to 255-320 HB. NTMK had to make a pilot set of wheels for them to get assessed and accepted by an ad hoc committee comprising representatives of Ural Locomotives, Russian Railways, the All-Russian Railway Transport Scientific Research Institute, and NTMK technicians. The pilot set got then tested at a special authorized lab.
The high-speed Lastochka trains get assembled at Sinara Group’s Ural Locomotives in the Urals.
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