Manufacturing

Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant is reckoned as a high-tech innovation enterprise, which meets the modern world standards in the sphere of transport machine building. Car assembling and foundry engineering have been combined in an effective production tandem that provides high productivity, flexibility of the production process and high quality level of manufactured products.

Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant is in the vanguard of transfer of western know-how technologies to the domestic transport machine building, and is supposed to be a unique enterprise with regard to its range of activities performed, the level of integration of innovative solutions and the investment volume.

Leading world companies of more than 40 world countries – Germany, the US, Austria, the UK, Canada, Spain, Israel and other took part in the creation of modern hi-tech production.

Foundry production is equipped with the modern molding line Heinrich Wagner Sinto (Germany), melting furnaces Siemens-VAI (Germany), centers for machining of castings Danobat (Spain). Environmentally friendly technological processes and materials of the melting and form-building equipment provide high-quality castings, which comply with the international standards.

Freight Car Building Plant is equipped with Danobat automatic line for the production of wheelsets (Spain), EISENMANN coating equipment (Germany), Vollert transborders (Germany). The equipment of freight cars body assembly-welding line is designed by KUKA Systems Company – the leader in the field of industrial robots. The coating section, involving shot blasting, embodies automated shot blasting robots and manipulators produced by the Finnish company Blastman Robotics.

Many samples of the equipment, installed in TVSZ, exist only in several copies in the world and are operated in the most modern enterprises of Europe and North America. 

More than 20 automatic and automated lines, more than 100 industrial robots, 3 high-capacity automated warehouses are used in the plant.

High level of automation and robotization of production, the application of modern design solutions and the comprehensive application of energy-efficient technologies can ensure high level of production capacity on equal terms with leading global companies.