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Balfour Beatty Rail at Elmia Nordic Rail and Future Transport 2007

Balfour Beatty Rail AB, the Swedish company of the Balfour Beatty Rail group, confirmed its strong presence in the Nordic rail market.

1.1   Visitors on the Balfour Beatty Rail stand
The Elmia Nordic Rail and Future Transport 2007, took place in Jönköping from October 9th to 11th, and was a great success for Balfour Beatty Rail.

Situated in Hall B stand B03:40, our stand set the standard proving that we can offer our customers the rail capabilities which allow us to provide a “Total service from a single source”.

We have recently strengthened our presence in the Nordic market with successful acquisitions of the Nordic signalling operations of Saab Communications and Carillion’s Swedish rail contracting company, which have brought us to further broaden our multi-disciplinary capabilities and to build up our expertise in the rail market.


On our stand we displayed some of our most representative projects as well as a range of innovations from the Balfour Beatty Rail world, available for the Baltic markets, such us:
  • 1.2   Discussing Balfour Beatty Rail's capabilities
    The TracFeed® OLSP an automated and integrated Emergency Tunnel Earthing System (ETES) comprising all components and services necessary for ETES functionality
  • The XiTRACK®, Ballast stabilisation - a geo-composite process for treating track ballast
  • The TracFeed®LTC, a line test controller
  • Our innovatice tensioning wheel including a range of catenary products and components
  • Transformer, a new type of magnetic core presented at Nordic Rail for the first time. The traditional E-core has approximately 4500 pcs of steel versus the new Hexacore which only has 9 pcs of steel; the new transformer gives lower energy losses than conventional E-types transformers.
Elmia Nordic Rail is the most important meeting-place for the Nordic railway industry.

In 2005 the event attracted over 4,000 visitors from 22 countries: buyers, technical designers, engineers and supervisors, as well as business leaders, politicians and other decision makers.
 
1.3   Manfred Leger, [right] Balfour Beatty Group Managing Director with responsibility for rail, attends Nordic Rail.
 
1.4   Visitors discover the advantages of Xi-Track® for ballast stabilisation on the stand