ArcelorMittal has announced that it has secured rail deliveries to Deutsche Bahn for another year, until 2018; the rails will support the Deutsche Bahn network renewal and expansion programmes.
Beyond the delivery contract, ArcelorMittal and Deutsche Bahn are also cooperating to develop new rail products together. Following this contract extension, ArcelorMittal will have supplied Deutsche Bahn continuously for four years.
The German rail network provider will receive rails from ArcelorMittal´s production facilities in Spain and Poland, totaling an annual amount of up to 147,000 tons or 2,500km in length. "We are very pleased to continue working with Deutsche Bahn", commented Augustine Kochuparampil, CEO of ArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products.
Future deliveries include 120m rails from Dabrowa Gornicza in Poland, where the group produces rails at its heavy section mill, one of the few sites in the world capable of producing rails of this length. Suitable for high-speed trains, the 120m rails provide high safety standards due to a reduced need for welding.
Uwe-Günther, Chief Procurement Officer of Deutsche Bahn, stated “Deutsche Bahn focuses on a very strong and strategic partnership with their suppliers, based on a common supplier management system. We purchase products and services in accordance with technical and commercial criteria, especially quality, logistics, and costs. I believe that this is a win-win situation for both DB and ArcelorMittal. We are proud that one of the world’s largest suppliers of rails belongs to our portfolio.”
ArcelorMittal is one of the world`s largest suppliers of rails for railways, subways, tram, light tracks, crossings, crane rails, and rail components. From its sites in Gijón, Dabrowa Górnicza and Huta Krolewska (Poland) and Rodange (Luxembourg), it supplies rails and tracks fittings of the highest quality to the European market and the rest of the world.
