INNOTRANS 2018: Forum of the future
12th fair «InnoTrans», the largest exhibition of the railway industry in the world, was held from 18 to 21 of September 2018 in Berlin, Germany. More than 3000 companies-participants from 61 country presented their know-hows and products in railway industry field at 220 sq. meters of 40 exhibition halls and on 2 outside exhibition spaces for 4 days. More than 400 recent developments were demonstrated at the forum.
«InnoTrans» is a unique event, where the hall exhibition is united with outside exposition on the railway tracks and wide variety of meetings, presentations and conferences. This combination makes Berlin an effective platform for concluding major deals between global manufacturers and consumers of railway technologies and equipment, including in the area of control and technical diagnostics.
It has been 5th time, since JSC «Firma TVEMA» has been taking part in Berlin Forum and had traditionally presented the wide range of its products: both state-of-art devices and the products, that are well known and had reliable worldwide.
Today TVEMA is among the world leaders in development, design and production of equipement for railway infrastructure diagnostics. Our products allows provide all the variety of measurement and control operations, at the same time, all products are universal in use, both for high-speed and manual testing.
This year at our booth at «InnoTrans 2018»,for the first time was demonstrated our newest series of railcars called SEVER 1435. This vehicle was specially designed for European railways. In 2019 Serbia will be the first country of delivery of this model. Within this project, that is TVEMA the full-cycle built product, were held meetings ith suppliers of the components such as AltPro, GANZ, GlasTrösch, KnorrBremse, Safkar, UniControl-Tramex,Voith and others.
Visitors and traders of «InnoTrans 2018» had opportunity to get acquainted with the whole range of our manual and portable devices such as trolleys PT-10 well-known in Europe, as well as new devices as manual diagnostic complex for railways and subways RDK PT-12M, electronic gage SEP-2, new generation of ultrasonic devices SPRUT-2, SKAT-2, SOM, manual complex for spatial scanning «GABARIT-S». All the devices showed their operation at the section of the track, built with the composite sleepers.
During the exhibition representatives of OAO “RZD”, Federal Agency of Railway Transport, Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russian Federation, OSJD, representatives of the railways and subways of foreign countries. Dozens of meetings were held by the members of the company, in particular on cooperation with railways, metros and rail civil transport industry representatives from Russia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Israel, China, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria, India, Iran, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, as well as with the representatives of the leading infrastructure inspection industry manufacturers Alstom, Plasser & Theurer, Mer Mec, DB Systemtechnik, Moser and others. In Berlin previous negotiations about installing and testing of our high-speed ultrasonic and videoinspection equipment with French Railways (SNCF) were successfully completed. At the same time was concluded the agreement about testing of our equipment on the railways of Brazil and the USA.
The InnoTrans Forum once again proved that it deserves the title of the leading fair in this sector of industry. Exhibitors showed their focus on the future of safe transport. They were able to demonstrate how their technologies help make the industry safer by combining traditional products with innovative technologies.
The results of our work at InnoTrans 2018 allow our company to hope that its developments will find potential customers in Russia and abroad and will transform into mutually beneficial contracts.