KLW WHEELCO - Wheels, Wheel Centers, Tyres and Axles

KLW WHEELCO is a Swiss company, a subsidiary of ALLIED STEEL, incorporated in Lugano in July 1999 with a representative office in Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine). KLW WHEELCO is able to supply the following railway material: wheels, tyres, wheel centers, other ring type items with symmetrical axis, axles, wheel sets, rails and turnouts.

KLW WHEELCO's management team background combines long-term activity within the structure of major European wheel and tyre producers with sales and marketing experience in international markets.

KLW WHEELCO organization employs, globally, about 15 people who will handle in 2001 a total turnover in excess of $40 million made up of a customer network spread across more than 20 different countries.

KLW WHEELCO has dealings with major banks both in Switzerland and abroad with particular reference to Gotthard Bank and Raiffeisen Zentralbank, Vienna.

RAIL VEHICLE WHEELS

Our manufactured wheels cover more than 100 types of monoblock wheels of different configurations for the freight and passenger cars, locomotives, high-speed express trains, electric trains and underground cars, trams, etc.

Outside diameter: 725 - 1268 mm
Width of rim: 90 - 160 mm
Height of hub: 90 - 450 mm
Diameter of bore: 90 - 190 mm
Mass: 270 - 1100kg

The railway wheels are manufactured to include all types of Customers requirements for special steel quality and web profiles.

Standards: UIC 812 - 3, BS 5892, part 3, BN 918277, prEN 13262, AAR M 107/208, TTS 094, TTS 248,JIS E 5402, NF F 01 - 131, MOR M - 2001 - 2,PN - 92 K - 91019, IRS R 34 - 99, SNC.

TYRES

The tyres are produced for locomotives, underground cars and trams, etc.

Outside diameter: 690 - 1300mm
Inside diameter: 550 - 1100mm
Width of rim: 80 - 150mm
Height of forepart: 15-50mm
Mass: 100 - 600kg

Standards: UIC 810 - 1, BS 5892, part 4, SSW - Q1M, DN 91857, M4T - 2000, PN - 91 K - 91032, ASTM A 551 - 81 (1988), IRS R - 15/95.

RAILWAY AXLES

Manufactured to UIC, GOST, AAR for load range 22.8 - 39.2t, for wheelsets running on railway gauges 1435, 1520 and 1676mm.

RAILS

Manufactured to UIC 860 specifications, as well as R38 and R43 types as per GOST 30165.

OTHER RAILWAY PRODUCTS

Freight cars to UIC and customer specifications:

• Various modifications of gondola car
• Box, self-dischargeable and hopper cars for aluminium, grain, pellets
• Cement-hopper car
• Tank cars for heavy and light oil products
• Flat Car
• Wooden and concrete sleepers

OUR MARKET

Our products are supplied to more than 50 countries of the world and are successfully operated in the various climatic zones from Far North to the Tropics.

OUR QUALIFICATIONS

Quality of the products is assured through our Quality Management System, which is certified for compliance with ISO 9002:1994 by TUV and AAR M-1003 by Association of American Railroads.

OUR BUSINESS

KLW WHEELCO is the marketing, distribution and export sales organization of the following producers of railway material: JSC "Nizhnedneprovsky Tube Rolling Plant" (Ukraine), JSC Krukovsky Railway Car Building Works" (Ukraine), JSC "Dneprovsky Metallurgical Industrial Complex", CSC "LugCentroKuz", and JSC "Dnepropetrovsky Railway Turnout Plant".

KLW WHEELCO has exclusive distribution agreements with JSC "Nizhnedneprovsky Tube Rolling Plant" (Ukraine), and JSC Krukovsky Railway Car Building Works" (Ukraine).