Rail components
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- Proven lightweight solutions for transportation
- Classic sandwich panel lay-up: operational since 2009
- Smart sandwich panel lay-up: best performance by best cost optimization
- Complete product solutions
Rail components
Lars Rosenbaum
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Proven lightweight solutions
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Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH (EFW) has been manufacturing lightweight tramway floor panels since 2009. EFW’s sandwich panel lay-up has been accordingly optimized for interiors and load carrying structure of rail and road transportation.
Application areas of lightweight rail components:
- Floor panels
- Lining
- Walls in sanitary facilities
- Partition walls
- Heated sandwich panels
Classic lay-up: successfully established
in tram floor panel design
Smart lay-up: competitiveness through composite innovation
Why should you use composites in transportation?
- Functional integration
- Substitution of wooden floor panels and reduction of load carrying metallic structures
- Outstanding thermal insulation and noise absorption
- Excellent fire safety properties
- Customization by system integration
- Heating systems
- Provisions for electrics, hydraulics, pneumatics, mechanical applications
Lightweight rail components: together from idea to ready-to-install product
EFW provides turnkey solutions in manufacturing of highly integrated sandwich panels for transportation:
- Concept development with focus on customers‘ requirements
- Research and development of customized composite product solutions
- Design
- In-house testing
- Certification
- Industrialization and large scale manufacturing
- Permanent product optimization
