New system engineering technology for railway sleepers curing

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The traditional concrete specialist Leonhard Moll is regarded as significant pioneer for railroad track and switch sleepers

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Curetec has delivered a system for controlling the climate in the curing chamber of the new Biebesheim Railroad Sleeper Plant of the concrete plant Leonhard Moll Betonwerk GmbH & Co

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View of the heating and cooling system that Curetec recently delivered to Leonhard Moll Betonwerke

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Just installed Curetec system before commissioning

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View of the new system delivered by Curetec

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Moll Project engineer Lars Wobisch (right) in conversation with BFT editor-in-chief Silvio Schade

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The Leonard Moll-Betonwerk located in Biebesheim in the German state of Hesse has its own railroad connection

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Curetec GmbH & Co. KG has delivered a system for controlling the climate in the curing chamber of the new Biebesheim Railroad Sleeper Plant of the concrete plant Leonhard Moll Betonwerk GmbH & Co. The system controls the temperature and the humidity in the individual compartments of the curing chamber, in accordance with the technical specifications of German Railroad (DB).

The company Leonhard Moll Betonwerke GmbH & Co KG has a long tradition going back as far as to 1929, when the Munich building contractor Leonhard Moll founded a concrete plant. The foundation stone for developing a new industrial segment was Leonhard Moll’s patent for prestressing concrete railroad sleepers. Moll has been a family-owned company in the market since its foundation.

The company is currently headed into the fourth generation. Owing to its growth in recent years, the company evolved into the second-largest manufacturer of European railroad sleepers. The recent years were marked,...