Wiener Linien and BATEGU embark on cooperative partnership
BATEGU is the world's first rubber manufacturer to successfully develop a material and a method by which it is now possible to use natural rubber produce rubber/rubber-metal components, which meet and even exceed current European fire safety standards, and thus offer maximum possible fire prevention and protection to passengers when used in rail vehicles.
Wiener Linien has announced that it plans to incorporate this innovation into its low-floor vehicles. At the start of January 2014, the two companies signed a multi-year contract for the manufacture and delivery of layer springs designed to comply with EN 45545. The first retrofitted tram sets will be in use as early as next year.
"In BATEGU we are delighted to have found an Austrian specialist company, which will help us to make our fleet of rail vehicles even safer," states Günter Steinbauer, Managing Director of Wiener Linien. Frank Schmitt, Managing Director of BATEGU, adds: "Wiener Linien is one of Europe's largest urban public transport companies and is giving us the opportunity and trusting us to deploy our innovation for the first time in Austria. They are thus setting a good example and are very conscious of their considerable responsibility towards their passengers."
Contact for queries
Frank J. Schmitt
BATEGU
Gummitechnologie GmbH & Co KG
Muthgasse 22, 1190 Vienna
Tel. +43 (1) 368 21 53 – 25
Fax. +43 (1) 368 21 53 – 24
frank.schmitt@bategu.at
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