Escorts launches innovative rail products

Escorts Railway Products (ERP), a division of Escorts Group, launched several new products for the Metros and Indian Railway segments during International Railway Equipment Exhibition (IREE) 2015.
The newly launched products include automatic door for metro and high speed train, LHB Alstom coach dampers, heavy duty locomotive dampers, rubber to metal bonded products , friction products like brake pads, and axle mounted disc brake systems for LHB.
“The new rail products are an outcome of continual frugal and value engineering by in house R&D and global technology partners for making rail travel safe,  reliable and more comfortable while also paving the way to import substitution and reducing the need for costly imports. In sync with the new vision of railway transformation, this marks the initial steps of success of ‘Make In India’ by indigenous manufacturers,” the company statement said.
According to Nikhil Nanda, Managing Director of Escorts, “We have partnered with the best companies around the world to Make In India the new products required for railway transformation as envisioned by the new Railway Minister.”
Dipankar Ghosh, CEO, Escorts Railway Products added saying, “Escorts Railway Division is gearing up to the challenge of participating in the transformation of Indian Railways and Metro segment with a strategic mix of new product introduction through both in-house innovation and global technology partnerships.”

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