WCH/Zonis

Up to 1,000 prestressed concrete railway sleepers per day from Buenos Aires

Figure: Zonis

Nicolas Wechsler, Federico Yedrasiak and Vladimir Blinoff welcome BFT editor Silvio Schade (right to left) to the Zonis production location in Ezeiza

Figure: Zonis

Figure: BFT International

View inside the production building with the three railway sleeper production lines

Figure: BFT International

Following the pretensioning of the reinforcement …

Figure: BFT International

… the fresh concrete can be poured into the molds

Figure: BFT International

The vibration machine serves all four parallel lines simultaneously

Figure: BFT International

Figure: WCH

This handling machine takes care of the demolding following the curing of the sleepers

Figure: WCH

Up to eight sleepers can be picked up and transported to the storage area by the lifting gripper

Figure: WCH

Figure: BFT International

The finished prestressed concrete railway sleepers await delivery following the capping of the reinforcement ends

Figure: BFT International

The Argentinian company Zonis has already made a name for itself amongst other things in railway and underground construction and decided in 2013 to venture into the precast industry. A new factory for the manufacture of prestressed concrete railway sleepers was thus erected; the production equipment is from WCH, a company based in Rio Claro, Brazil.

The Argentinian building contractor Luis Carlos Zonis S.A. has already made a name for itself with public and private clients from sectors such as railway and underground construction, electromechanical and hydraulic engineering, and environmental technology. Since its establishment in 1974, the company has offered its customers the expert services of an experienced, solid company whose most important assets are its employees and its technical equipment.

Zonis originally built exclusively railway lines on behalf of various companies from the public and goods transport sectors, but it soon...