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ArcelorMittal crane rails in Sri Lanka’s largest port
4 December 2023From port and terminal projects to giant cranes, ArcelorMittal crane rails are used in many applications and can be found in ports on all continents.ArcelorMittal Europe - Long Products contributed to new terminal project in the capital city of Colombo in Sri Lanka by supplying MRS87A grade 90 crane rails from its Rails & Special Sections mill in Rodange, Luxembourg. These rails have a high protection coating (level C5) to protect them against corrosion, achieving the desired level of protection and maintaining their specifications.
Project newsArcelorMittal Europe launches new crane rail grade
8 August 2022ArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products’ Rails & Special Sections has launched R340, a top wear performance crane rail grade for heavy loads, allowing customers to optimise their Life Cycle cost. Designed in the ArcelorMittal Rail Excellence Centre (Global R&D), R340 combines optimum process parameters with ad-hoc chemical composition. This new grade with higher mechanical properties and hardness was specifically designed for heavy loads.
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ArcelorMittal crane rails in Sri Lanka’s largest port
From port and terminal projects to giant cranes, ArcelorMittal crane rails are used in many applications and can be found in ports on all continents.
ArcelorMittal Europe - Long Products contributed to new terminal project in the capital city of Colombo in Sri Lanka by supplying MRS87A grade 90 crane rails from its Rails & Special Sections mill in Rodange, Luxembourg. These rails have a high protection coating (level C5) to protect them against corrosion, achieving the desired level of protection and maintaining their specifications.
Complete solutions to meet customers’ requirements
China's Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company (ZPMC) Ltd has won the tender to supply 12 giant cranes and 40 rail mounted automatic gantry cranes for the new port. As a result, ArcelorMittal also supplied A75 crane rails to equip the ZPMC's STS cranes used for the terminal.
ArcelorMittal is a key supplier and partner for this project thanks to our ability to offer complete solutions across our product range and steel grades. "This was possible thanks to the great collaboration between the mill and the commercial teams, which enabled us to achieve good results and meet the customer’s requirements," concludes Frédéric Goujon, ArcelorMittal Product manager for crane, grooved, and light rails.
ArcelorMittal works closely with its customers to develop new or specific rails and products according to their needs, while maintaining a high degree of production flexibility.
New container terminal for Colombo Port
Colombo is Sri Lanka's largest port and handles 90% of the country's maritime cargo, making it an important container port on the East-West maritime route in South Asia.
The new East Container Terminal (ECT) at Colombo Port will feature a 1320-metre-long, 75-hectare container yard, including the connected services needed to operate as a modern container terminal. The entire project is scheduled for completion in 2025.
A road network has been designed to ensure efficient traffic flow for warehouse operations and rail loading. The marshalling area has been designed with a container stacking facility with wagon loading and unloading facilities. Once established, this will serve as an interchange point between road and rail to serve the terminals in the port of Colombo.
Text:
ArcelorMittal Europe Communications
Constructalia
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ArcelorMittal Europe launches new crane rail grade
ArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products’ Rails & Special Sections has launched R340, a top wear performance crane rail grade for heavy loads, allowing customers to optimise their Life Cycle cost. Designed in the ArcelorMittal Rail Excellence Centre (Global R&D), R340 combines optimum process parameters with ad-hoc chemical composition. This new grade with higher mechanical properties and hardness was specifically designed for heavy loads.
Top wear performance and increased service life
A specific wear test was designed to assess in-service performance. The results show that R340 is a benchmark in wear resistance compared with other crane rail grades available on the market thanks to its customised microstructure. The combination of customised microalloying in the chemical composition along with a specific rolling process and subsequent air cooling results in this new steel grade with improved hardness and mechanical properties, in addition to a notable life service extension and consequently lower maintenance costs.
“It has been a challenging development due to the ambitious hardness target to be achieved by natural cooling, but with this grade we have gone beyond the limits of the air-cooled pearlitic rail steels. This was possible thanks to the great internal collaboration between the mill and the commercial and R&D teams, which allowed us to achieve good industrial results in record-time. Now we are aiming to go even further. There is already a strong interest from the market and its key players,” concludes Frédéric Goujon, product manager for crane, grooved, and light rails.
R340, which has been approved for welding, has been integrated into the ArcelorMittal crane rails technical specifications and is available on the entire crane and special rails range.
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Transport rails:
- rails & track fittings for public and urban railway and underground lines
- high speed rails (for speeds over 350 km/h)
- heavy rails
- conductor rails
Tram Rails (grooved, vignole, & block rail)
Light Rails (specific light transport & underground mining operations)
Crane Rails (DIN crane rails, American crane rails, special crane rails & girder crane rails)
Special sections (cathode bars, rail accessories, & track shoes)
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MoreInnovative, high quality rails
The rails and track fittings manufactured by ArcelorMittal are supplied worldwide for high speed tracks, heavy haul tracks, and urban transport systems amongst others thanks to their product quality and the elevated level of reliability which has earned ArcelorMittal the trust of their customers.
The offer is enhanced with many certificates and approvals from transport companies in different countries.
Rails are steel products that must fulfil a multitude of technological requirements. Continuous quality control and elaborate testing ensure the characteristics of the final product meet the stringent requirements regarding rail characteristics and performance.
In addition to head hardened rails, high-speed railways (with speeds over 350 km/h) are one of the most demanding applications for which ArcelorMittal has developed innovative production processes.