Austrak - Pre-Stressed Concrete Railway Sleepers / Ties and Turnout Bearers

Austrak was founded in 1980. Since then, it has grown to be Australia's largest railway sleeper manufacturer and a world-leader in sleeper design and production technologies.

For more than 30 years Austrak has provided its clients with safety, certainty and engineering excellence.

In that time, it has produced in excess of 17 million sleepers and built 12 factories in Australia and overseas.

Austrak offers flexible client-oriented solutions, including sleeper design and supply, and end to end logistics capability.

Concrete sleeper technology for railways

Austrak specialises in providing its clients with cost-effective concrete sleeper solutions. Our vision is to be the world's premier provider of railway sleeper solutions.

Austrak's emphasis on research and development in sleeper design and production technologies ensures it remains at the forefront of the industry.

Austrak has in-house design expertise to develop sleeper designs for any application in any track gauge.

During the past 30 years, it has manufactured more than 17 million sleepers for light, medium and heavy haul rail as well as light tramways - 9tal to 50tal, 600mm to 1600mm gauge.

Austrak not only designs sleepers to AS 1085.14:2003 but can design to any code or specification.

The product range includes:

• Heavy haul sleepers
• Mainline sleepers
• Light rail sleepers
• Timber replacement sleepers
• Special sleepers
• Monorail
• Turnout bearers
• Level crossings
• Masts and poles

Production technology

While Austrak specialises in sleeper solutions, its real product is the intellectual property tied up in its factory designs and operating systems.

Austrak has built 12 factories in Australia and overseas in its 30-year history. Some of those factories were custom-built to meet a client's specific project needs, at times in very remote and challenging locations.

The latest factory, due for completion in early 2012, is based in Dubai and will be the largest factory it has ever constructed with a capacity in excess of 1.4 million sleepers per year.

The factories operate under Austrak's own work methods and quality assurance standards which are third party accredited to ISO9001. The systems also comply with the requirements of ISO 14001.

Austrak owns the design of more than 12 tailor-made machines. Built-in automation improves product quality by reducing product variation concerns.