Top performance for the railway industry

with 30,000 km railway lines, more than 3,000 superstructure products and high-speed components for over 450 km/h.

Your global market leader for rail superstructure fastening components made of plastics.

Know-how

Being a Q1 supplier of Deutsche Bahn and with fifty years of experience we meet any requirements regarding output, promptness and safety.

The Deutsche Bahn was our first customer. Since then and with long-term customer relationships we have steadily developed ourselves into the global market leader for injection molded parts in the rail superstructure business. Our rail fastenings, cable ducts and switch components ensure a secure freight- and passenger transport on any heavy-load- and high-speed lines worldwide, based on process reliable plastic solutions that are manufactured and assembled at our certified plants.

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  • Certification and quality assurance according to all common railway standards, such as Q1 and HPQ
  • High responsiveness through in-house mold construction and global manufacturing strategies
  • Wide product range with numerous rail fastening components for concrete-, steel- and wooden sleepers
  • Supplier of the high-speed line Beijing - Shanghai , on which an interim speed record of 450 km/h was set
Technology

Speed and axle load determine technology and material.

Our plants process virtually all common constructional thermoplastics which are suitable for superstructure thanks to their elastic and load-bearing properties. Depending on the speed and specification we select the most efficient and useful injection process, including assembly- and refinement service upon request:

  • Joint development with customers
  • Mold design and construction
  • Thermoplastic injection molding and refinement
  • Individually automated assembly solutions
  • Global logistics solutions, directly to railtracks upon request
Solutions

Superstructure reference projects.

Our wide product range includes more than 3,000 rail fastening components, such as angle guided plates, intermediate pads, dowels, switch components as well as cable ducts. They prove their worth in the initial equipment of railway lines, rail reconstruction or also maintenance.

Cable ducts

for energy and data lines

Cable ducts
Kabelkanal aus Kunststoff

Dowels

for the initial equipment of concrete sleepers

Initial equipment dowels
Kunststoff-Schraubdübel für die Erstaustattung von Betonschwellen im Bahnoberbau

Repairdowels

for reconstruction of wooden and concrete sleepers

Repair dowels
Kunststoff-Sanierungsdübel für den Bahnoberbau

Angle guide plates

Safety and a long service life

Angled guide plates
Winkelführungsplatte aus Kunststoff für den Bahnoberbau

Intermediate pads and plates

High resilience and optimized load distribution

Intermediate pads
Zwischenplatte aus Kunststoff zur Schonung des Oberbaus

Conductor rail carrier

Elektrische Isolation der "Dritten Schiene"

Conductor rail carrier
Our team

We accompany our customers along the entire value chain, from the initial idea up to the after sales service and beyond.

Bernhard Ganter, Projektmanager

Bernhard Ganter

Supervisor Business Unit Rail Infrastructure
Bettina Böhm, Projektmanagerin

Bettina Böhm

Key Account Manager
 
Klaus Kinnemann, Werkleiter Wirthwein Brandenburg

Klaus Kinnemann

Plant Manager Wirthwein Brandenburg
 
Allen Li, Projektmanager China

Allen Li

Project Manager China

Jan Streibel

Product Manager
Your project with Wirthwein

Get in touch with our Railway team.

You have an inquiry, require technical advice or would like us to call you back? Then please make use of our contact form, write us an e-mail or just call us.

Phone
+49 7933 702 0

E-mail
railway@wirthwein.de

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Our in-house mold design and construction makes us even more flexible.

Mold design and construction

At the beginning, there was the octagonal wooden peg for the Deutsche Bahn.

The Wirthwein story