The wheelset assembly and axle production sheds were merged into a new axle and wheelset production workshop.
2022
Railway Equipment Manufacturing
Interpipe NTRP
Dnipro, Ukraine Interpipe NTRP is the Ukraine's largest railway product manufacturer and one of the world's TOP 3 railway wheel exporters in the company's structure. The plant focuses on the manufacture of wheels, tyres, axles and wheelsets for railway transport. The enterprise has 2 workshops. The wheel-rolling shop is equipped with a wheel-rolling and ring-tyring line, as well as a wheel heat treatment shed and a finishing shed, which house modern machines by Knuth, Hegenscheidt and Sermu Intermatо for full-profile treatment. The axle and wheelset production workshop is equipped with modern lathes and milling machines enabling axle finishing, as well as a press for mounting of wheelsets and a painting line for mounted wheelsets.
The plant features equipment to perform various types of control and testing in line with international standards, and its own testing laboratory.
A steel billet for train wheels are produced at the Interpipe Steel's state-of-the-art electric steel-melting complex.
The product range of Interpipe NTRP includes the following:
- Solid-rolled railway wheels for locomotives, passenger and freight railway transport, as well as subway cars with a diameter ranging 700 to 1,269 mm;
- Tyres with a diameter of 570 to 1,300 mm;
- Axles for railway wheelsets;
- Wheelsets.
The products are certified in accordance with international and national standards of ISO, ISO/TS, AAR, UIC-Merkblatt, EN, GOST, DSTU and specifications by customers.
2021
A wheelset assembly shed was launched.
2019
The investment project to boost production of rough axles and increase export capacity for machined wheels and wheel finishing was completed.
2017
Commencement of in-house production of axles and wheelsets
2016
Executing a strategic investment programme to increase export capacities (finishing work, full-face machining work, production of railway axles and wheelsets)
2012
Shutdown of open-hearth steel production and transition to production from continuously cast billets produced by the company's electric steel-melting complex
2002-2008
A comprehensive investment programme was implemented to increase production capacity.
2000
Interpipe was recognised the world's largest exporter of railway wheels.
1999
Creation of the KLW brand and establishment of the KLW Wheelko trading company
1990
First shipments of wheels to India and China.
1984
A comprehensive reequipment/modernisation of the wheel-rolling workshop was launched.
1979
The first batch of railway wheels was exported to Europe.
1935
A wheel-rolling workshop was launched and the first railway wheel was rolled at Interpipe NTRP.
1891
Near the Goriainovo station, B. Hantke, a German businessman, commissioned a nail factory.