SCM HIGH TECHNOLOGY ON CHINESE TRAINS

Jul 29, 2010 There is Italian technology in the motion of the Chinese high-speed trains: the SCM Foundries have recently delivered to the Chinese Railways, an important supply of 900 gearboxes to equip the CRH5 high-speed trains, named “bullet trains”, travelling over 280 Km/h. Such gearboxes are assembled on the transmission device and require high security, structural and mechanical standards. These boxes are spheroidal iron casts requiring a resilience of 9 Joule at -40°C. It’s an extremely strong type of iron, with excellent mechanical characteristics even at low temperatures. The French company Alstom, which builds trains for the Chinese Railways, has chosen SCM Fonderie Villa Verucchio (Rimini), one of the few worldwide companies able to guarantee several and scrupulous production process quality controls. SCM Fonderie produces “as cast” pieces directly from the casting without thermal treatments which would cause serious geometrical distortions of the parts. The same gearboxes supplied to Alstom Savigliano Railways (Cn), are also installed on the Etr600 Pendolino, Italian high-speed train, named “Freccia argento” (Silver arrow).