Machines

Full engineering of a sleeper plant

With more than 20 years of experience in producing prestressed monobloc sleepers, Betonfabriek De Bonte has gained a considerable expertise in this field. Based on this, they developed their own optimized production machines and moulds which are sold internationally. The company offers the full engineering of a sleeper plant.

Offer

• Full design of prestressed concrete sleepers in accordance with customer’s specifications.
• Engineering of factory layout and buildings, utilities, etc.
• Design and building of machines and equipment.
• Engineering and production of moulds
• Installation as a turnkey project
• Assistance with the certification process.
• Training of technical staff and production workers.
• Start-up of production.
• Assistance with the quality control of production.
• After-sales service for maintenance and spare parts.

Advantages

• High degree of flexibility (choice of sleeper type, adjustable production speed, etc.) as well as high and uniform product quality
• Automation level can be adjusted according to customer’s requirements

Different stages of the production process

• automatic spraying of demoulding oil
• fitting of reinforcement and inserts
• electronically controlled tensioning of reinforcement
• casting and compacting of concrete
• installation of USP (Under Sleeper Pads)
• automatic transport to the curing area
• curing of the concrete sleepers
• detensioning of moulds
• demoulding of sleepers
• fitting of fastening material on sleepers
• automatic measurement
• transport of sleepers to storage