The companies of the holding carry out the repairs of wheelsets of freight wagons and traction rolling stock. The complete inspection of wheelsets with axle box revision, replacement of solid-rolled wheels, axle gears, as well as the standard survey with reprofiling of the wheel's rolling surface and revision of the axle box are carried out. RAIL SERVICE performs forming the wheelsets of both OANW (Old axle new wheels) and NANW (New axle new wheels) types.
The enterprises are equipped with a full range of technological equipment for the high-quality performance of works, including wheel lathe, press and lifting equipment, electronic devices for non-destructive testing, diagnostics and registration the parameters of axle elements, wheels and components axle boxes.
RAIL SERVICE companies perform the repairs of all types of freight wagons – open-top wagons, box wagons, tank wagons, flat wagons, hoppers, etc. The range of services includes the organization of scheduled types of repairs (like interim and major overhauls), operating repairs (OR-1, OR-2), modernization of freight wagons, components and parts, cast parts of the wagons with the replacement of elements, as well as redeployment of wagons to the repair site, technical inspection, claim activity.
Services are provided in Russia, the CIS and the Baltic countries. p>
Servicing, maintenance and repairs of rolling stock is carried out in full accordance with the requirements of Russian Railways («RZD» JSC).
The service includes the provision of maintenance depots and rolling stock owners with the refurbished units and details of freight wagons, as well as carrying out of cargo handling works and storage of spare parts on a contractual basis. Full range of new or used spare parts and components, required for the repair of rolling stock is available in warehouses. The companies of the holding use direct contracts with the manufacturers of spare parts and this excludes deliveries of substandard products.
To date RAIL SERVICE is the only certified supplier and representative of solid-rolled wheels manufacturer MA Steel, Maanshan (PRC) in the Russian Federation.
Cutting of all types of freight and passenger wagons into scrap metal includes their disassembling and dismantling of removable equipment, element-by-element cutting of wagon's body and frame into parts, enlarged cutting. The service also includes the delivery of scrap metal by rail and road. In addition, storage and shipment of returnable spare parts, formed during cutting, is provided.
Own approaching lines allow the customers to reduce the cost of wagons downtime significantly.
The total production capacity of the holding companies in wagons cutting is 300 rolling stock units per month.
RAIL SERVICE companies provide the services for parking and storage of railway cars throughout the entire 1520 mm gauge railway network. The service includes the shunting of rolling stock and the provision of secured railway tracks for general and private use.
The capacity of own tracks is 1,500 wagons. Own locomotives are used for shunting works. Guarantees are provided for the rolling stock safety at the parking spots. Own private railway tracks are adjacent to the Kotjol railway station of the Yugo-Vostochnaya railway and to the Sterlitamak railway station of the Kuibyshevskaya railway.
Repair of wheelsets of traction rolling stock is carried out by «VKM» LLC at its own production facilities in Staryj Oskol town.
Certificate, issued by the Federal Agency for Railway Transport, allows the company to provide services for the standard and complete inspection of wheelsets of traction rolling stock, their parts and components.
The list of services includes:
— complete inspection of wheelsets with revision of axle boxes, replacement of the solid-rolled wheels and axle gears;
— standard survey of wheelsets with reprofiling of the wheel's rolling surface and revision of the axle box.
«VKM» LLC (Staryj Oskol town) provides the maintenance of traction rolling stock at its own production facilities.
The depot is equipped with the necessary equipment to perform all types of repair works and works on restoration the locomotive's standard operational performances.
Services include the replacement and repair of worn parts, partial modernization of equipment, as well as the complete replacement of worn parts and restoration of operational characteristics of traction rolling stock.
Rail Service is a holding company, the structure of which includes: VKM LLC (Stary Oskol), VRZ JSC (Sterlitamak), Wagon Repair Plant Zavyazovskoye LLC (Nizhny Tagil), RVK LLC (Bogotol), Wagon Repair Center LLC (Abdulino), Garant Rail Service LLC (Moscow), NovoTechRail LLC (Novozybkov), Allegro LLC (Verkhnyaya Salda). The holding companies provide a range of services for repair and maintenance of freight wagons, locomotives, tank containers and also produce spare parts.
2 300
total number of employees
railways in the geography of service provision
70 000
wagon repairs per year
100 000
wheelsets formed a year
production volume of finished wanog axles per year
VKM LLC: Wagon repair company in Stary Oskol. It provides services for repair of freight wagon wheelsets and traction electrical equipment, formation of freight wagon wheelsets, repair of freight wagons, cutting wagons into scrap metal and provision of railway tracks for wagon storage.
VRZ. STERLITAMAKVRZ JSC: Wagon repair plant in the Ural-Volga region (Sterlitamak). It provides services for freight cars repair, repair and formation of freight cars wheelsets, repair and inspection of tank containers, washing and degassing of tank cars, cutting of freight cars. The company also provides its own railway tracks for storing wagons.
WAGON REPAIR PLANT ZAVYAZOVSKOYE. NIZHNY TAGILWagon Repair Plant Zavyazovskoe LLC: a wagon repair company in Nizhny Tagil. It provides services for depot and current repairs of freight cars, their components and parts. The company also provides its own ways for storing cars.
RVK. BOGOTOLRVK LLC: the wagon repair plant in Krasnoyarsk region. It provides services for depot and current repairs of freight cars, wheelsets formation and steam-cleaning of tank cars.
WAGON REPAIR CENTER. ABDULINOWRC LLC: the wagon repair plant is located in Orenburg region. It provides services for repair of all types of freight railcars and wheelsets formation.
GARANT RAIL SERVICE. MOSCOWGRS LLC: a service company that provides a range of services for organizing and supporting the full cycle of repair of freight wagons, as well as for supplying spare parts and components in the Russian Federation, the CIS countries and the Baltic States. The company provides an opportunity to organize the repair of freight wagons online through the Vagonmaster Internet platform.
NOVOTECHRAIL. NOVOZIBKOV
NovoTechRail LLC: a joint venture between GRS and TransFin-M located in the Bryansk region (Novozybkov). Machine-building plant for the production of freight wagons, spare parts and components for them.
ALLEGRO. VERKHNYAYA SALDA
Allegro LLC: a joint venture between the EVRAZ Group and Rail Service. It carries out the construction of a plant for solid-rolled railway wheels with a production capacity of 200 thousand units in the special economic zone Titanium Valley. The first production is scheduled for early 2023.
CHARITABLE FOUNDATION SCARLET SAILSThe foundation provides comprehensive assistance to social support institutions and protection of citizens in need, children from orphanages and residential care homes, the disabled, low-income and large families. It also carries out works on reconstruction and restoration of Orthodox churches and adjacent areas.
At the new production of railway wheels of the Allegro company, established EVRAZ and the industrial group "Rail Service", started commissioning work on the new line of output quality control. The company is based in special economic zone "Titanium Valley" in Verkhnyaya Salda. The output control line consists of 10 units, RIA "New Day" was informed in EVRAZ press service. It includes a unique for Russia laser installation for wheel geometry measurements. It automatically reads data from 660 wheel points in 74 seconds. Washing and drying installations were built on the line, ultrasonic testing, magnetic particle flaw detection. For check hardness level will use a hardness tester, and to harden the surface disc - shot blasting machine. Needle-punch robot will mark on the wheel.
Assembly work on the assembly and installation of large units is carried out on the territory of the entire enterprises. The plant's equipment is 50 percent installed. The connecting link in the Allegro technology chain is completely robotic interoperational warehouse of wheels. Through it from the site heat treatment wheels will be automatically guided to the mechanical processing, and then to the output control line. In stock applied modern digital technologies. Cranes in automatic mode will distribute the wheel stacks on the racks, and then feed them further according to the technology. Hardware along with software designed specifically for plant "Allegro" engineers "Tomsk Electronic Company". The plant will use the most modern and environmentally friendly technologies. A closed process water cycle was implemented, a system was built water treatment with filtration, chemical treatment. Implemented system recuperative heating with secondary heat from waste gases of heating ovens. An oil warehouse has been equipped, where oils will be collected and disposed of for sent for recycling.
Two railway lines will enter the production workshop - for the import procurement and export of finished railway wheels. It is also possible to download wheels by road.
“The new production of railway wheels is being built using the most modern technologies, there will be a high level of process automation. At the same time, we are interested in qualified employees who will work with advanced equipment, and create 443 jobs for them,” – noted the Vice-President of EVRAZ, the head of the division "Ural" Denis Novozhenov.
“The construction of the plant is being carried out by a highly professional team with colossal production experience, which largely determines the success project. I am glad that, despite all the difficulties, the enterprise already has a high readiness stage, and next year we will be able to provide a new volume railway wheels of consumers of the Russian market,” added General Director of Rail Service Pavel Makarov. The area of all production and auxiliary premises is about 26 thousand square meters. meters. The capacity of the enterprise under construction is 200 thousand wheels per year with the possibility of increasing up to 300 thousand. Investment in construction amounted to about 18 billion rubles. Start of production scheduled for the second half 2023.
Allegro will work in conjunction with EVRAZ NTMK. From Nizhny Tagil steel billets are supplied, the plant will bring its unique expertise - EVRAZ NTMK is one of the leading enterprises in the production of railway wheels in Russia and the CIS, the plant produces more than 80 types railway wheels.