BONATRANS GROUP – Who We Are - Railvolution

BONATRANS
GROUP
Largest European
Wheelset Producer
Czech Raildays 2011, Ostrava
Jiří Vodák

Across the horizon
safely reliably
comfortably
on BONATRANS wheelsets
Our care does not end at the horizon.
We care for the whole product life.

BONATRANS GROUP – Who We Are
Strategic field of business:
Wheelsets for rail-bound vehicles,
and their parts
Complex care of the product starting from
design, optimisation and validation, to inservice
monitoring and LCC management
Flexible solutions tailored to customer needs
Technical support and full-scale customer
service

BONATRANS GROUP – Who We Are
The largest European and the only Czech
producer of railway wheelsets and their
parts.
Headquarters and production facilities in
Bohumín, Czech Republic
Workforce of 1260 employees (end of
2010)
Sales € 208 mil., (2010)
More than 95% of sales realised outside
of the Czech Republic
Deliveries to 80 countries of 5 continents

Products and services – a full spectrum
Freight
vehicles
Passenger
vehicles /
Metro
EMU / DMU
Locomotives
Very high
speed
Resilient
wheels
Noise
absorbers
Stress
optimised
low-weight
BONATRANS
wheelsets
B29, BBS
Other
standard and
special freight
wheelsets,
wheels, axles
and tyres
Power and
trailer
wheelsets
and their
parts
Complete with
components
and noise
reducing
applications
Power and
trailer
wheelsets
and their
parts for all
types of EMU
and DMU
units
Including
molybdenum
spraying and
roller
burnishing of
axles and/or
gearbox
assembly
where
applicatble.
Complete
locomotive
wheelsets up
to the
diameter of
1250 mm.
Including
molybdenum
spraying and
roller
burnishing of
axles and/or
gearbox
assembly
where
applicable
Products for
very high
speeds above
250 km/h
Including
induction
hardening of
axles for high
fatigue
strength
Wheels with
rubber
segments
considerably
reducing
wheel /rail
noise
Various types
including
applications
for 100% lowfloor
vehicles
Fine-tuned
wheelmounted
noise
absorbers
Effective
reduction of
noise
generated by
wheel/rail
contact
Applicable
especially for
urban
transport and
very high
speed
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Care for complete product life
Product research and development (completely new product
development, increasing product life, noise reduction…)
Design validation (in full scale own fatigue testing lab)

Research & Development
Strong design, research and development team (19 engineers)
State-of-art SW equipment and fatigue testing laboratory
Experience with development of product for customers worldwide
Main activities
Development, optimisation and verification of new designs
Development of entirely new product types
Optimisation of material properties
Enhancement of products‘ operational life
Solutions for noise reduction
Monitoring and evaluation of in-service data

State-of-art testing equipment
ILAC Fully accredited metallurgical laboratory comprising:
Mechanical laboratory
Metallographical laboratory
NDT laboratory
Fatigue testing laboratory
More about the
fatigue testing lab

Care for complete product life
Quality and reliability based sourcing (high-quality material, …)
Scheme
After-sales and customer services (technical support, in-service
product monitoring…)

Integrated management system
IRIS – International Railway Industry Standard
TÜV Nord, Germany
QUALITY SYSTEM
ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
TÜV Nord, Germany
RAILWAY CERTIFICATES
See examples further in presentation.
PRODUCT CERTIFICATES
TSI certificates for all main products
Customer specificis product certificates
(DB AG, AAR, PKP, ČD, SKF, FAG, …)

Delivery countries
BONATRANS

Customers - Railways
Ahaus Alstätter Railways Greek Railways (OSE)
Polish State Railways (PKP)
(AAE)
Association of American Hungarian State Railways (MÁV) Portuguese Railways (CP)
Railroads (AAR)
Austrian Railways (ÖBB) Indian Railways (IR (India)) Railways of Serbia and Montenegro
(ŽS and ŽSF)
Bangladesh Rail (BR) Indonesian Railways (KA) Rhaetische Bahn, Switzerland (RhB)
Belgian Railways (SNCB) Irish Rail (IE) Romanian Railways (CFR)
BLS Lötschbergbahn,
Switzerland (BLS)
Bulgarian State Railways
(BDŽ)
Croatian Railways (HZ)
Islamic Republic of Iran
Railways (RAI)
Israel Railways (IR (Israel))
Slovakian Railways (ŽS)
Slovenian Railways (SZ)
Korean National Railways (KNR) Spanish Railways (RENFE)
Czech Railways (ČD) Luxembourg Railways (CFL) State Railway of Thailand (SRT)
Dutch Railways (NS) Macedonian Railways (MZ) Swedish Railways (SJ)
Egyptian Railways (ENR) Moroccan Railways (ONCF) Swiss Federal Railways (SBB)
Eurotunnel (EUROTUNNEL) National Railroad Passenger Tunisian Railways (SNCFT)
Corporation, USA (AMTRAK)
Finnish Railways (VR) Network Rail (UK) Turkish State Railways (TCDD)
French Railways (SNCF)
North Italian Railways (FNME)
German Railways (DB) Pakistan Railway (PR) … and others

Customers - Manufacturers
Passenger trains, locomotives, urban transport
Bombardier
Transportation
Kinki Sharyo
Alstom Transport Nippon Sharyo
Siemens Mobility Talgo
GE Transportation
Systems
Škoda
Transportation
Rotem Tokyu Car
Vossloh China CSR
Kawasaki Rail Car China CNR
…and others

Customers - Manufacturers
Freight wagons
Tatravagónka Nordwaggon
International Railway
Systems
ELH
Greenbrier Europe
(Wagony Swidnica)
Fabryka Wagonow
Gniewczyna
Techni Industrie
Arbel Fauvet Rail
MÁV Tae Yang Heavy
Industries
T.Z.V. Gredelj
…and others

Value for our partners
First-class products for all rail-bound applications
Uncompromised care for the whole product cycle
Worldwide presence and experience
Dynamic growth and flexibility
Leading position at the European market
Healthy product mix and wide customer portfolio
Strong growth dynamics and stability
Strong research and development
Well invested production base
High labour productivity and capacity utilisation

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