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Équerre d'argent 2019 winners: A special jury prize for the Roland Garros Stadium
7 January 2020A special jury prize was presented at the Équerre d'argent 2019 awards in Paris on 25 November. The prize was awarded for the Simonne-Mathieu tennis court designed by architect Marc Mimram in the Roland Garros Stadium in Paris. Gearing up for the 2020 French Open, works are being carried out at the Roland Garros Stadium, including a retractable roof built with ArcelorMittal crane rails.
Event NewsArcelorMittal rails will keep the French Open players dry
7 January 2020In May 2020, all eyes will be on the French Open / Roland-Garros tournament. While encouraging Novak, Serena, Rafael, or Roger, we invite you to admire the new retractable roof of the central court! Thanks to ArcelorMittal Rodange rails, your favourite players will be protected from the rain.
Project NewsThe many applications of ArcelorMittal crane rails
30 December 2019From port and terminal projects to giant cranes or retractable roofs (the latest trend in sport stadiums), ArcelorMittal crane rails are used in many applications and are present in every continent.
Product NewsArcelorMittal provides rails and fences to Africa’s first high-speed rail line
9 January 2019Inaugurated on 15 November 2018, the Kenitra-Tangier line is the first high-speed line in Morocco. Its main objective is to link the biggest town of the country, Casablanca, to Tangier. This is the first stage of a project to create up to 1500 kms of new railway lines in Morocco. ArcelorMittal is proud to contribute to this high-level project with the participation of ArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products Rails & Special Sections, who provided rails, and WireSolutions, who provided fences.
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Équerre d'argent 2019 winners: A special jury prize for the Roland Garros Stadium
A special jury prize was presented at the Équerre d'argent 2019 awards in Paris on 25 November. The prize was awarded for the Simonne-Mathieu tennis court designed by architect Marc Mimram in the Roland Garros Stadium in Paris. Gearing up for the 2020 French Open, works are being carried out at the Roland Garros Stadium, including a retractable roof built with ArcelorMittal crane rails.
The competition
It was a jury chaired by the architect Paul Chemetov and composed of previous winners of the awards that the nominees of the Équerre d'argent 2019 had to convince. Twenty achievements were in contention, and the selection was made by the editors of Moniteur and AMC from some 220 applications divided into four categories: Structures; Culture, Youth & Sport; Activities; and Habitat.
Winners
The Julia-Bartet Residence, a training centre for apprentices and the distribution centre for the ‘Restos du coeur’ in Paris, designed by the architect Charles-Henri Tachon, won the Équerre d'Argent 2019 prize. Four other projects have been awarded respectively in the categories mentioned above. The prize for the Première Œuvre (First work) 2019 was awarded to a glassware workshop in Brioude (Haute-Loire), designed by Antoine Dufour Architects.
Click here to see the winners in pictures!
Text: Constructalia
Image: Équerre d'argent
ArcelorMittal rails will keep the French Open players dry
In May 2020, all eyes will be on the French Open / Roland-Garros tournament. While encouraging Novak, Serena, Rafael, or Roger, we invite you to admire the new retractable roof of the central court! Thanks to ArcelorMittal Rodange rails, your favourite players will be protected from the rain.
Premium rails provided in record time for the French sports monument
The Rodange site produced the 44 crane rails used for the construction of the retractable roof of the court. The A150 rails are the largest in our DIN range and were produced in 110CrV of superior quality. This shade has long been exclusively developed by ArcelorMittal with special straightening to ensure perfect track alignment.
The rails were mainly produced for the Philippe Chatrier central court roof. Once the rails were manufactured, the finishing operations were managed and organised in Yutz, France for:
- Cutting: The rails were cut to length according to customer specifications, including 45° corner cuts while respecting the required lengths with a tolerance of +/- 1mm.
- Hardness: The A150 are the highest quality in the range.
- Handling: Made with textile straps only, without magnets or chains, despite the size of the rails (the A150 are the largest rails in the range of crane rails produced in Rodange).
- Fast delivery
In total, it took only two months between ordering and shipments to provide the end customer with completely finished rails - from production to delivery. Thanks to good internal cooperation, we were able to provide the customer with a complete solution.
The revival of an iconic tennis court
Built in 1928, the Philippe Chatrier central court has undergone a complete renovation to modernise the stands and build a retractable roof.
This roof will not only allow the organisation of night games, but will also protect players from the rain in case of bad weather. It is composed of 11 panels of 100 metres and 350 tonnes each which slide on our rails. Thanks to our high quality products, this 3850-tonne roof will open and close in 12 minutes.
Click here to see the construction of the retractable roof.
Text: ArcelorMittal Luxembourg, Constructalia
Images: ArcelorMittal Europe
Video: Roland-Garros
The many applications of ArcelorMittal crane rails
From port and terminal projects to giant cranes or retractable roofs (the latest trend in sport stadiums), ArcelorMittal crane rails are used in many applications and are present in every continent.
Working closely with customers
ArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products Rails & Special Sections is working closely with its customers to develop specific rails and new products according to their needs. Flexibility is another key factor in improving customer service. We can supply standard rail lengths from 6 to 36 metres, but other lengths are available upon request as well as finishing possibilities (cuts, special cuts, drilling, machining, bending, blasting-painting, etc.).
Incomparable knowledge, selection, and expertise
Crane rails are produced in several steel grade qualities and specifications according to customers’ requirements. Historical crane rails producer, ArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products Rails & Special Sections has built an incomparable knowledge and expertise of this product range. The company has also created with its customers numbers of rails as per all the MRS range used worldwide in major port projects and has established levels of quality control even stronger than the basic standards to secure our customers in their choice of a key product related to most often critical applications.
ArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products Rails & Special Sections has the largest products and grades portfolio, from the full range of DIN crane rails, MRS crane rails, CR crane rails, and many other specific rails, with hundreds of references in main ports worldwide.
Retractable roofs: a new trend in stadium construction
Retractable roofs are getting more and more popular in stadium construction, and ArcelorMittal crane rails are already present in some spectacular stadiums all around the world. Retractable roofs are designed to move panels that weigh hundreds of pounds in just minutes and they allow to control the stadium’s interior environment more effectively as they can be closed during inclement weather and opened on sunny days. After the roofs, retractable pitches might soon become the new trend.
From the world’s largest crane to the latest Ariane rocket
Another impressive application of crane rails is giant cranes. ArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products Rails & Special Sections has supplied crane rails for Sarens’ SGC-250, the largest crane in the world, capable of lifting 5000 tonnes, which is equal to 1408 elephants, 63 trains, or 20 planes.
Another major application is the launching pad of the Ariane 6 rocket, for which crane rails have been supplied for the construction of the rail track.
Text: ArcelorMittal Europe Communications
Images: TaMaNKunG / Neil Mitchelll, Shutterstock; ArcelorMittal
ArcelorMittal provides rails and fences to Africa’s first high-speed rail line
Inaugurated on 15 November 2018, the Kenitra-Tangier line is the first high-speed line in Morocco. Its main objective is to link the biggest town of the country, Casablanca, to Tangier. This is the first stage of a project to create up to 1500 kms of new railway lines in Morocco. ArcelorMittal is proud to contribute to this high-level project with the participation of ArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products Rails & Special Sections, who provided rails, and WireSolutions, who provided fences.
Sole rails supplier for the Kenitra-Tangier line
ArcelorMittal is the sole rails supplier for the first phase of this project and provided 46 000 tonnes of rails produced by ArcelorMittal España at the Veriña site. We were able to offer the customer rails that combine excellent reliability, geometrical precision, strict flatness tolerance, and the highest quality on the market. Our 60E1 R260Mn rails measuring 36 metres long have a lower wear than our R260 standard grade. They also fulfil all of the requirements for high-speed railways:
- Safety
- Comfort
- Durability and cost efficiency
- Minimum acoustic impact
- Service
- Environmentally-friendly
Fences from Bissen on the north part of the line
The Moroccan rail operator ONCF*, via the local provider/installer Menasteel Industry, has entrusted the supply of WireSolutions’ high security fencing Atak®, produced in our plant in Bissen, Luxembourg. Our fences were installed along the north part of the line. This represents 50% in terms of volume (of the north part of the line) and 146 kms of fences. This is the first entry into the public market in Morocco for Bissen and a good opportunity to become an important player on the North African market.
Kenitra-Tangier in only 47 minutes
The line between Casablanca and Tangier is the first step in ONCF’s project to create 1500 kms of railways in Morocco. It will significantly reduce travel time from Casablanca to Tangier from 4 hours 45 minutes to around 2 hours. The 200-km track between Kenitra and Tangier is linked to the existent rail line between Kenitra and Casablanca. With trains running at a speed of 320 km/h, it is now possible to travel from Kenitra to Tangier in only 47 minutes.
In the future, the line will be extended to the south through Marrakesh to Agadir, and another line is planned from Rabat through Fez to Oujda.
*ONCF (Office National des Chemins de Fer du Maroc)
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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.