Integrated manufacturing of REciclable multi-material COmposites for the TRANSport sector

Stadler Rail Valencia S.A.U. (STAV) is a subsidiary owned 100% by Stadler Rail Group.

Closely linked with the industrial history of railways and with the benefit of more than a century of experience, Stadler Rail Valencia is designing and manufacturing diesel-electric locomotives for freight and passengers services with proven components and high performances with total customer satisfaction. The core business also covers light rail vehicles such as metros, tram-trains and tramways. Stadler Rail Valencia is also supplier of bogies, for locomotives, trains and metros, for freight and passenger services.

Stadler Rail Valencia Engineering Centre has a commitment to Innovation. State of the art technology and optimum quality are the characteristics of the whole range of products developed and produced in the Valencia plant.

The company has a modern manufacturing plant with 200.000m2 distributed in several workshops, and it has maintenance sites in Spain and France.

As stated above, STAV has more than a century of experience in the design and manufacturing of rolling stock vehicles, mainly in diesel-electric locomotives but in the last 15 years also in LRVs, and therefore having a large expertise to carry out the tasks of the project. Special mention for RECOTRANS project is the experience in the design, calculation, manufacturing, testing and maintenance of structures and interiors for different kinds of rail vehicles.

STAV has core competences in the calculation of structural resistance and fatigue of rail vehicles, as well as in crash simulations according to the current EN standards, which together with the knowledge and work of the REFRESCO EU project and the currently on-going Roll2Rail project will make perfect contributions to this project.

STAV’s main role in the project will be the specification and design of the new hybrid pieces, giving feedback on the manufacturing processes, and the validation of the new pieces manufactured in the project in a real tramway or train-tram, assessing the real performance of the new materials produced in the project.

» Publication Date: 02/02/2018

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