To support the "Make in the UAE" strategy
"Etihad Rail" relies on building its network on local components
"Union of Trains" supports the national industrial sector and the wheel of economic growth.
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Since its inception, the "Union Trains" company has been keen on building a national railway network with international specifications, to contribute mainly to supporting the national industrial sector and pushing forward the economic growth.
The company has tended to accredit locally to provide many of the main components that go into building the network, which is consistent with the unified industrial identity "Make in the Emirates", which the UAE recently launched.
Concrete girders are an important component of the railway network, as they are the main base for fixing the railroad tracks. The company has built factories for the production of concrete beams in the country instead of importing them from abroad, with the aim of achieving greater efficiency in terms of time, effort and cost, and contributing to reducing the carbon footprint resulting from import operations, as concrete beams are manufactured using high-quality raw materials available locally. It also contributes to creating hundreds of job opportunities nationwide.
The first factory is located in the port city in the Al Dhafra region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which extends over an area of 13 thousand square meters, and operates with a capacity of 45 thousand beams per month, and produced all the girders of the first phase of the national railway network project.
As for the second factory, it is located in the Saih Shuaib area on the borders between the Emirates of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and extends over an area of 9,000 square meters, and took about 12 months to construct, equivalent to 700,000 hours of work, and it works on the production of concrete beams with a capacity of 1.1 million girders.
The production of concrete girder is carried out in the factories by following the longitudinal production line system, which contains eight lines, and each line produces 400 concrete girder daily, as the factory produces 3,200 concrete girder in each casting process.
All girders go through a rigorous quality assurance inspection process, which includes dimension checking, bending testing and checking for cracks before being transported to the assembly area to be ready for use.
• «The company» tended to build factories to produce concrete beams locally, instead of importing them.
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