The Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant is a new high-tech greenfield project that is arranged within the territory one of a Soviet industrial giant enterprises in the north-west called the Tikhvin Production Association Kirovskiy Zavod. The advantage of such location is determined by the availability of the infrastructure required for large-scale production facilities, reserved areas for future development, proximity to regional industrial productions and its integration with the transportation logistics center in the North-Western region.
March
Hopper cars model 19-9870 manufactured by Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant reached the first 8 years of operation without scheduled repairs. The condition of the bogie showed that there were large stocks for wear and tear for the declared maintenance standards.
NPC «Springs» (part of United Wagon Company) increased production capacity to 1.4 mln automobile springs a year and produced a millionth spring for the domestic automobile industry.
April
United Wagon Company and Railway Transport Engineering (Uzbekistan) signed an agreement on the establishment of service centers in the Republic of Uzbekistan to provide guarantee and post-warranty service of freight wagons on innovative bogies manufactured by UWC.
March
United Wagon Company has delivered a new batch of flat cars and boxcars to Bodi International LLC. Today, Mongolian railways operates above 700 freight cars of various types manufactured in Tikhvin.
April
United Wagon Company agreed on the delivery of a total of 1,000 grain hoppers with the ASTON Group and the railway operator MRT.
May
United Wagon Company will fulfil an order for 100 box cars, placed by Eurologistic international transport group.
April
United Wagon Company is developing ties with its Mongolian partners. A total of 300 large-capacity container flat cars will be delivered to the country before the end of June.
June
At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum United Wagon Company and United Chemical Company Uralchem signed a contract to supply 1,494 hopper cars for mineral fertilisers and a memorandum with Ural Mining Group to supply 5,000 gondola cars.
September
The Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant has assessed the accomplishments of the National Labour Productivity Programme. The expected economic effect from the introduction of lean tools will exceed RUB 9 million. The Programme implemented at the region's largest enterprise was sponsored by the Leningrad Region as part of the agreement signed at SPIEF in 2021.
December
The enterprises of the Tikhvin Industrial Site have successfully passed a surveillance audit proving compliance of their business management system with the global rail industry standard ISO/TS 22163:2017. The audit was held by the voluntary certification body of the Union of Industries of Railway Equipment. As a result, the Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant, TikhvinSpetsMash and TikhvinChemMash have proved the validity of their certificates for 2023.
March
United Wagon Company and the intermodal container operator Trans Synergy have signed a deal on the supply of 1,000 innovative large-capacity container flat cars.
April
United Wagon Company will supply 3,600 container flat cars to transport company RB GROUP.
As part of its warranty and post-warranty maintenance programme for new generation freight cars UWC has opened a service centre in Kyrgyzstan. The state-owned National Company Kyrgyz Temir Jolu, Kyrgyz Railway, will carry out current uncoupling repairs and maintain a warehouse with stocks of components and serial spare parts.
May
United Wagon Company and GantsevichiDrevStroi, LTD, a Belarusian producer of wood and wood chips for the energy and pulp and paper sectors, have sighed a contract for the supply of a batch of gondola cars.
June
United Wagon Company has obtained the vehicle type approval for its flat cars from the European Union Agency for Railways, which allows operation of the railcars on European railway network.
United Wagon Company took part in XXIV Petersburg International Economic Forum and signed agreements for the supply of 6,600 freight wagons with EuroChem, transport company RB GROUP, Uralkali, Akron Group and GTLK. Also an agreement was signed with the government of Leningrad region on the participation of the Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant in the national project «Labour Productivity».
September
UWC has signed a new agreement to supply 100 flat cars for the transportation of freight containers to VTG Rail Russia, which is a member of the VTG AG Group, the European market leader in the rolling stock leasing market.
December
United Wagon Company continues to expand its service network in the 1520-mm gauge area. The total number of the Company's service centres in the CIS and Baltic states reached 109 (increased by 14 centres compared to the end of 2020). The scheduled maintenance of freight cars on 25-t axle-load bogies can be carried out at 49 service centres now (increased by 17 centres compared to the end of 2020). The rest of the centres have spare part storage facilities for new generation cars to reduce their downtime due to uncoupling repair.
January
UWC has been ranked on sustainable development among 100 Russia’s largest companies by the Expert multimedia group.
February
United Wagon Company has received RC FRT certification for the 19-6978 and 19-6978-01 six-axle articulated hopper car models running on 25 t axle load bogies. There are no models similar to such cars on the CIS market.
March
UWC and Togliattiazot, one of Russia’s largest producers of chemicals ranking among the top three producers of ammonia in Russia and the top ten worldwide, have signed a contract on the supply of 200 Tikhvin-produced hopper cars for the transportation of mineral fertilizers.
May
A robotic centre for the arc welding of intermediate beams in the gondola car body has been launched at the blank production of Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant. The new robotics will guarantee a high quality of welded seams by minimizing the human impact.
June
United Wagon Company is launching the UWC Young Leaders programme to promote the training and development of promising employees with high career growth potential. The project’s main objective is to build a talent pool that will one day be able to fill key management positions at the Group’s car-building enterprises.
According to the Ranking of Russia’s Top Rolling Stock Manufacturers of 2019 compiled by INFOLine-Analytics, United Wagon Company was placed first by the number of freight cars produced in Russia and second among the world’s leading manufacturers.
A collective agreement was signed at the Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant, covering the period of 2020–2022. The adopted collective agreement establishes the bases for a social partnership between the workforce and the employer and is upheld by the plant’s regulations on social protections for workers.
October
Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant has been awarded a certificate in the category Largest Industrial Enterprises of North-Western Federal District. The independent annual Ranking of Industrial Enterprises is drafted by Delovoy Peterburg, the largest newspaper in the North-Western District, supported by the Executive Division of the Russian President’s Regional Office in the North-Western Federal District, and Higher School of Economics of Saint Petersburg.
May
According to a Ranking of the TOP Rolling Stock Manufacturers in Russia in 2018 compiled by INFOLine-Analytics, United Wagon Company took first place by number of freight cars produced in Russia and third place among the leading global manufacturers.
August
Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant has sent a batch of Sggrs80 articulated flat cars produced for Deutsche Bahn for testing.
November
United Wagon Company has received certificates from the Register of Certification on the Federal Railway Transport Federal Budgetary Organization for the articulated gondola cars with loading capacities of 117 t (model 12-6877 with a solid bottom) and 114.5 t (model 12-6877-02 with unloading hatches).
December
United Wagon Company has released the 100,000th freight car produced since the launch of the Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant in January 2012. The milestone gondola car was delivered to the State Transport Leasing Company as part of a contract to supply 20,000 gondola cars.
August
United Wagon Company has successfully passed a quality audit by Deutsche Bahn, the largest railway operator in the European Union. UWC was assigned Q2 quality status based on the audit results. In addition to the Deutsche Bahn audit, the Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant has successfully passed certification to the EN 15085 Welding of Railway Vehicles and Components European standard.
November
United Wagon Company has won an international tender by Deutsche Bahn to supply Sggrs80 articulated container flat cars. The cars for the European market were manufactured at UWC’s production site in the town of Tikhvin (Leningrad Region).
April
Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant has been certified by Register of Certification on the Federal Railway Transport to produce a new generation flat car for shipment of large-capacity containers and tank containers with a loading length of 80 feet.
August
Gondola with unloading hatches of model 19-9853 manufactured by Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant became the winner of the competition held by Russian Railways for the best quality of the rolling stock and complicated technical systems and won the first place in the nomination “Rolling stock”.
September
Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant Receives Certification of Quality by the Association of American Railroads and has started shipping the large-size castings (Barber S-2-HD® bogie Side Frames and Bolsters) to equip the North American freight cars.
December
Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant has been certified compliant with ISO/TS 22163:2017, which is the new international standard for quality management systems in the railway industry.
January
United Wagon Company and railway operator VM-Trans have agreed on the delivery of up to 3,000 of new generation freight cars of various types.
February
Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant has successfully underwent recertification audit of the system of business management on its compliance with the requirements of international standard of railway industry IRIS. The audit was performed by the specialists of the Russian branch of DQS Holding GmbH – international certification body. The actual level of maturity of TVSZ management system according to IRIS Audit-Tool has been increased up to 73%. It is one of the highest indicators among domestic companies, possessing IRIS certificate.
May
The Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant held an annual competition of professional skill of welders, which was attended by as plant employees and students of the Tikhvin Industrial Technology University.
June
JSC “Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant” (TVSZ, part of the railway holding RPC UWC) has been proclaimed the winner of Ekaterina Dashkova’s Award – the most prestigious award in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region library environment. The enterprise has become the winner in the nomination “Patron” for the implementation of the sociocultural center “Teffy” project.
August
The fifth anniversary annual conference of suppliers of the railway holding “United Wagon Company” took place on Tikhvin industrial site. The representatives of more than 30 Russian and foreign enterprises, among them —“Severstal”, “United Metallurgical Company”, TC “EvrazHolding”, “MTZ Transmash”, “SKF”, Zanardi Fonderie (Italy) and other, took part in the event.
October
United Wagon Company has started bulk manufacture of austempered ductile iron (ADI) components.at the facilities of Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant. The annual production capacity is 30,000 railcar sets.
July
Research and Production Corporation “United Wagon Company” and “Eurosib SPb-transport systems” signed a lend lease agreement of up to one thousand innovative log platforms of load capacity. The agreement provides for the long-term lease of log platforms, new 13-6852 model, with improved technical and economic features in the course of 2016-2017.
September
Railway corporation “United Wagon Company” and “Eurosib SPb-transport systems” signed a lend lease agreement of up to one thousand innovative log platforms of load capacity. The agreement provides for the long-term lease of log platforms, new 13-6852 model, with improved technical and economic features in the course of 2016-2017.
Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant received a certificate of compliance for a solid-bottom gondola with 98-m³ capacity from the Register of Certification on the Federal Railway Transport" (FBO "RC FRT").
December
United Wagon Company and Uralkali, the world’s largest producer of potash fertilizers, signed an agreement for the supply of 400 hopper cars for mineral fertilizers manufactured in Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant.
February
At Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant the compliance audit was successfully carried out by DQS-Ul Group (Germany), a leading certification body. According to audit results the IRIS Audit Tool’s estimate (the enterprise automatic ranking score) was 61%, and TVSZ foundry production was included in IRIS certification scope.
April
Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant has been awarded the Best IT-Project category at the Adam Smith Russian CFO Awards 2014.
July
Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant has produced the 10,000th freight car from the moment of the enterprise`s launch in January 2012. The jubilee hopper car model 19-9870 for the transportation of mineral fertilizers equipped with innovative bogies (25 tf) has advanced technical and economic parameters compared to standard rolling stock.
September
Batch production of solid bottom gondolas model 12-9869 with improved technical and economic characteristics was launched at the capacity on Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant. The line capacity of solid bottom gondola building is up to 500 units per month.
Febuary
Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant released first mass-produced cars on innovative Barber bogies and found its way into the railway system of CIS and Baltic countries.
March
Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant was certified with International Railway Industry Standard (IRIS) in March, 2013. The certificate given to the company is a proof that TVSZ production meets the highest standards of excellence in the railway industry.
May
Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant has started batch production of Solid-bottom universal gondola model 12-9869 fitted out with the Barber bogie increased axle load of 25 t.
June
Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant has become a laureate of the first Development Award instituted by Vnesheconombank in the nomination “The Best Project in Industrial Sectors”. Head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Ivanov has presented the Awards in the course of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
September
Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant has become a laureate of the first Development Award instituted by Vnesheconombank in the nomination “The Best Project in Industrial Sectors”. Head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Ivanov has presented the Awards in the course of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. United Wagon Company and Wabtec Corporation (USA) have signed a JV ageement to develop and produce innovative components for rolling stock, including heavy haul railway components. Production is planned to launch in Tikhvin, the Leningrad Region, in 2014.
United Wagon Company and the global leader in cassette bearings production American Company Timken, have announced about long-term cooperation. Under the Agreement the new generation freight cars fitted with Barber bogies with axle load of 25 tf produced by the TVSZ will be equipped with Timken box cassette bearing and will be included in the Russian Railways managed maintenance program.
Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK) and United Wagon Company (UWC) agreed on delivery up to 6 000 innovative rail cars equipped with Barber bogies with axle load of 25 tf produced by the Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant. This is first major deal on supply of commercial innovative railcars in the russian market.
January
On January 30th the symbolic launch of the Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant took place. Start-up of the Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant will become a remarkable benchmark for the Russian industry. For the first time in more than half a century an innovative full-cycle enterprise has been constructed – car assembly and foundry production are integrated into a single technological complex ensuring high rate of productivity and flexibility of production. On the amount of investment, production facilities and level of the technological infrastructure it is one of the most large-scale objects in the European machine building industry
February
Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant has put out to the railway network first new generation gondolas equipped with innovative Barber S-2-R increased capacity bogies. In order to undergo the controlled service the multipurpose drop bottom gondola model 12-9853 have been sent to JSC “Siberian Coal Energy Company”.
April
International certification body DQS GmbH in April, 2012 has granted Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant with a certificate which proves the enterprise's quality management system accordance with requirements of the ISO 9001:2008 standard. Tikhvin plant has also been qualified with a uniform certificate of the major international certification network, IQNet.
May
United Wagon Company incorporated in 2012 has acquired management of Tikhvin Frieght Car Building Plant and RAIL1520, an operating lessor. The Company’s aim is to develop an integrated provider of railway services, including the manufacturing, operating lease, engineering and maintenance of freight cars. Its strategic objective is to become a leader in the 1520 gauge region.
January
The Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant obtained the Compliance Certificate issued by the Federal Railway Transport Certification Register for the bogie of the Barber S-2-R type (Model 18-9855) with the axial load of 25 tf and the drop-bottom universal gondola with unloading gates ( Model 12-9853) designed on its base.
The Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant and Tatravagonka a.s. (Slovakia) signed an Agreement on strategic partnership in the sphere of design, manufacture and implementation of innovation products in the railway mechanical engineering industry. The Agreement was signed within the frame of the visit arranged by JSC Russian Railways’ delegation and headed by its President Mr. Vladimir Yakunin to Slovakia. Pursuant to the document signed, Tatravagonka will secure a license for the right to manufacture and export of bogies of Barber S-2-R type and their elements to the RF.
February
The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and the State Corporation “Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)” increased the credit line limit for the construction of the Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant up to 660 million USD.
March
The Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant sent to OJSC “Freight One” the first batch of freight hopper cars of the new generation for carrying out of experimental under-control operation.
The Compliance Certificate issued by the Federal Railway Transport Certification Register was obtained for the hopper car for mineral fertilizers based on the bogie of Barber S-2-R type with the axial load of 23,5 tf.
January
The Acceptance Commission with the participation of the Russian Railways and the Railcar-Building Engineering Centre has positively assessed the results of designing and product launching of the solid-bottom gondola of Model 12-9833.
February
The first prototype models of the bogie of Model 19-9855 (Barber S-2-R) with the 25 tf axial load have been produced.
March
The certificate of conformity issued by Federal Railway Transport Certification Register has been received for a solid-bottom gondola of Model 12-9833 with the 23.5 tf axial load produced for the first time in the history of the domestic transport machine building on the basis of an American design.
April
The first industrial equipment has been supplied to the plant.
May
The favorable opinion for a hopper car of Model 19-9835 has been obtained from the acceptance commission with the participation of the Russian Railways, Federal Agency for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision and the Railcar-Building Engineering Centre.
June
The agreement on intent to provide supply of 15 000 freight cars of the new generation up to the year 2014 has been signed with company Transgarant.
Within the scope of the RF President’s visit to the USA, the ICT Group and the Wabtec Corporation (USA) have concluded a revolutionary for the market Agreement for cooperation in innovation of technologies, which provides cooperative design, manufacture and implementation of innovation products used for rolling stocks for mainline railway track 1520. The Russian party has acquired the incorporeal right for the construction of Barber S-2-R bogie, its manufacture, selling, as well as granting of the license on production of new bogies to other railway engineering manufacturers in the territory of Russia and CIS countries.
July
The governor of Leningrad Region Serdyukov V. has ceremonially launched the first stage of the plant’s foundry production with the capacity of 6 000 tons of railway casting per year.
The installation of the first production equipment has been started in the freight car assembly production department.
August
The agreement on cooperation in the sphere of implementation of the innovation products for the railway machine building for the period of 5 years and supply of freight cars manufactured by TVSZ, including bogies of Model 18-9810 (Barber type), during the period of 2011-2013 has been signed with Freight One.
The hopper car designed by an American company has been certified in Russia for the first time ever. The Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant has received the certificate of conformity issued by the Federal Railway Transport Certification Register for a hopper car for mineral fertilizers of Model 19-9835 with the axial load of 23.5 tf.
September
An innovation bogie of the Barber S-2-R type for the 1520 gauge has been manufactured. The Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant has become the first plant among domestic manufacturers that received the certificate of conformity issued by the Federal Railway Transport Certification Register for the freight bogies based on an American design of the Barber S-2-R type with the axial load of 23.5 tf.
The Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant has received the certificate of conformity issued by the Federal Railway Transport Certification Register for a drop bottom universal gondola and a solid bottom gondola on the basis of an innovation bogie of the Barber S-2-R type with the axial load of 23.5 tf.
November
The agreement on cooperation in the sphere of implementation of the innovation products for the railway machine building for the period of 5 years and supply of freight cars manufactured by Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant, including bogies of Model 18-9810 (Barber type), during the period of 2011-2012 has been signed with Freight Two.
December
The agreement on cooperation in the sphere of innovation technologies, which aim is to satisfy the demands on an innovation railway product and its promotion to RF and CIS markets has been signed with the Corporation UralVagonZavod.
The bank of Khanty-Mansiysk and the Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant have started the realization of social private & government program , which aim is to implement the large-scale program on providing the plant employees with the affordable housing of high quality.
The agreement with the Independent Transport Company for the period of up to the year 2015, which aim is to satisfy the Independent Transport Company’s demands on the rolling stock of the new generation. The company is ready to purchase up to 300 freight cars with the innovation bogie of the Barber S-2-R type in 2011.
March
The certificate of conformity on manufacture of a preproduction drop- bottom universal gondola of Model 12-9761 has been received.
April
The first prototype models of a solid-bottom gondola and a hopper car with the bogie of the Barber S-2-R type have been manufactured.
June
Joining the Association of Railway Machinery Manufacturers and signing of the Charter on cooperation between the Russian Railways, Association of Railway Machinery Manufacturers and Russian enterprises engaged in transport machine building, manufacturers of railway technics, units and components.
July
The first prototype models of a flat car for the bulk containers transportation of Model 13-9834 have been manufactured.
January
The construction of the Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant has been started.
June
The supervisory board of the state corporation The Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank) under the chairmanship of the RF Prime-Minister Vladimir Putin has approved the participation of the bank in the financing of the plant construction.
July
The experimental production of cars with the annual capacity of 100 cars has been commissioned.
August
Prototype models of drop-bottom universal gondolas of Model 12-9761 have been manufactured.
November
The Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant construction project has been acknowledged as the best investment project in transport machine building industry in CIS countries.
The full range of pre-design and design activities, including the assessment of the impact of the projected enterprise on the environment has been performed, the project has been approved during the public hearing in Tikhvin, the favorable conclusion on the project and the permission on construction by Russian GlavGosExpertise have been received.
The large-scale preparatory measures have been taken, namely, clearing of buildings and constructions by removal of an old process equipment , dismantling of a wall barrier, roofs, floors of old buildings and structures. Having completed the preparatory period, the active stage of construction works was started.
