List of manufacturers of concrete sleepers

Below, is a list of manufacturers of concrete sleepers.

List of plants

Angola

(Three plants needed)

• North - Bengo Province
• Centre - Liangongo - Benguela
• South - Caraculo^[1]
• South - Namialo - concrete sleeper plant.^[2]

Australia

Austrak concrete sleeper factory in Wagga Wagga

(clockwise)

• Townsville Austrak - 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) - defunct^[3]
• Mackay Austrak - 1,067 mm - defunct^[3]
• Rockhampton Austrak - 1,067 mm^[3]
  • 610 mm are also made for cane tramways.
• Mittagong - 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in)
• Taree - 1,435 mm
• Denman - 1,435 mm
• Mittagong - 1,435 mm^[4]
• Grafton - 1,435 mm ^[4]
• Wagga Wagga - 1,435 mm (Bomen) Austrak - 1,435 mm
• Geelong (Avalon) Austrak - 1,435 mm & 1610 mm (2 ft)
• Port Hedland Austrak - 1,435 mm
• Wedgefield Austrak - `610 mm, 1,067 mm, 1,435 mm^[5]
• Wickham - 1,435 mm
• Katherine Austrak - 1,435 mm - defunct^[3]
• Tennant Creek Austrak - 1,435 mm - defunct^[3]
• Austrak - Australia's largest manufacturer of concrete railway sleepers^[6]

Azerbaijan

• Sleeper Factory Baku ^[7]

Bangladesh

• Chhatak^[8]

Botswana

• Gaborone - Kwena Concrete Works^[9]

Bulgaria

• Svishtov ^[10]
• ZPSV-Varna ^[11]

Cameroon

• Bélabo ^[12]

China

• China United Railway Logistics^[13]

Democratic Republic of Congo

• Due 2012 ^[14]

Ethiopia

• Dire Dawa - 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in)^[15][16]

Georgia

• Concrete Sleeper Plant - 1,520 mm, 1435 mm

Germany

• Walter Beton^[17] 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in)
• Thosti^[18]
• DW Schwellen^[19]

Ghana

• Huni Valley - 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in)/1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) dual gauge (?)^[20]
• Number: 2 m
• Cost: Euro 85m
• Cost each: Euro 42.5 per sleeper.
• Cost of plant: Euro 7
• Jobs: 130
• Output: 400,000 per annum
• Output: 1096 per day (about 0.5 km of track).
• Makers: Kampac and Rail.One
• Gauge: possibly dual gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in)/1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)

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1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in) gauge.

In 2014, a new siding from Lomé across the border from Togo to a cement works in Ghana opened using concrete sleepers.^[21]

Greece

• Sleeper Factory Trikala - Strotires ^[22]

India

• ^[23] First use in 1967^[24]
• Hindustan Prefab Limited^[25]
• PCM Group - 3 plants - first in 1991^[26]
• Patil Group - 8 plants - first in 1971^[27]
• Nandgaon, Maharashtra
• Madhepura^[28]
• Kathua^[29]
• Vishal Nirmiti^[30]

Iran

• Railway Services and Technical Construction Engineering Co. ^[31]

Iraq

• Abu Ghraib^[23]

Kenya

• 2005 - proposed^[32][33]
• 2015 Emali - temporary ^[34]

Korea, North

• Rahung^[35]

Korea, South

• Pusan^[36]

Libya

• Khoms^[37] by Walterbau,^[38] Germany.
• Ra's Lanuf - for Russian contract

Malawi

• plant supplied earlier by same maker as plant for Mozambique (Nacala).^[39]

Malaysia

• Malaysia - various gauges, mainly 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in)

Mastrak concrete sleeper and turnout bearer factory in Negeri Sembilan

• Mastrak Sdn Bhd. Established in 1981, located in Batang Benar, Negeri Sembilan^[40] with some shares held by A-Betong AB,^[41] and was previously under management of Australia's Austrak Pty Ltd ^[3][42]
• Capable of producing 17,000 pre-stressed concrete sleepers per month
• 4,000 metres of turnout bearers in a month. The turnout bearer utilizes technologies from Voestalpine (VAE)
• Quality Management System ISO 9001:2008 valid till 2 Nov 2017, (cert no. Q878088 issue date 3 Nov 2014)
• As of early 2015, Mastrak Sdn Bhd had supplied more than 2.7 million units of sleepers, and about 300 sets of turnout bearers
• Main client being Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB), Klang Valley MRT, Sabah State Railway, IRCON
• Due to its longstanding history, it also served as field reference for studies by local university students ^[43][44][45]

Mozambique

• Namialo for northern line of Caminhos de ferro do Moçambique (CFM) of Nacala to the Malawian border.^[39][46]
• Dondo^[47]
• Sena - 600 per day

Namibia

• Tsumeb^[48][49]

New Zealand

• Te Rapa, Hamilton, North Island ^[50]

Pakistan

• Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ^[51]
• Khanewal, Punjab
• Sukkur, Sindh
• Kotri, Sindh

Poland

• Goczalkow sleeper production plant ^[52]

Romania

• Metabet
• Dunapref -Blejoi ^[53][54]
• Dunapref -Giurgiu ^[54][55]

Russia

• Viazma^[56]

Saudi Arabia

• Ha'il - Transport in Saudi Arabia 32.5T axleload - 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in)^[57]
• Rail. one^[58]
• PCM Strescon Overseas Ventures Ltd, Manufacturers of Heavy Haul Concrete Sleepers with capacity of 100,000 sleepers a month^[59]
• Hofuf sleeper production plant ^[60]

Sierra Leone

• Racegroup^[61]

South Africa

• Infraset^[62][63]

Sudan

• Sudan - north Khartoum, producing 2000 at first stage concrete sleepers a day.^[64][65] by Shanghai Hui Bo Investment Co (SHIC) ^[66]
• Cost of factory - $5m^[64]

Switzerland

• Tribeton^[67]

Syria

• Sleeper Factory Homs ^[68]

Tanzania

• Tanzania called tenders in 2008 for sleeper plant.

Thailand

• Wihan Daeng in Saraburi Province^[69]

Togo

In 2014, a new siding from Lomé across the border into Ghana to a cement works opened using concrete sleepers.^[21]

Turkey

• Sleeper Factory Denizli ^[70]

United Arab Emirates

• Mirfa - Etihad Rail

United Kingdom

• Trackwork Moll Ltd.^[71]

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2. RailwaysAfrica 5/2013 p20
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4. Rocla
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62. INFRASET
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69. |url=http://www.itd.co.th/en/complex.php |date=20140407081847 ITALIAN-THAI Development Public Company Limited Archive copy at the Wayback Machine
70. Denizli sleeper production plant - Thosti-International
71. Trackwork MOLL :: Pre-stressed concrete railway sleepers