The high quality of our products, wide range of profiles and grades according to the main manufacturing standards, technical and commercial support as well as our tailor-made assistance, make our rails to be present in the main Railway Administrations all around the world, directly allowing our products’ export to increase in the recent years.
ArcelorMittal Rails & Special Sections quality policy is focused on ensuring our customers the quality of our products supply, adapted to their needs, now and in the future.
The policy of our quality assurance system is intended for the production of goods and rendering of services to meet the changing needs of our customers according to their expectations. Customer satisfaction is our objective and the condition for the permanent success of our facilities and reliable products.
This system has the following objectives:
- To guarantee the process conditions in all production stages, with regard to the physical, chemical and metallurgical characteristics.
- To ensure thorough inspection of the finished product so as to guarantee full compliance with the specifications.
- To collect, process and assess the obtained results in order to implement a system of continuous improvement.
- To deliver on time and accordingly to customer requirements
Therefore, ArcelorMittal has the human resources and equipment necessary to properly analyse all these parameters, optimise the operation of the production systems and improve the process with the latest technology.
In ArcelorMittal we are fully committed to the quality and reliability of our products, a commitment that has allowed us to obtain the confidence of our customers. In our Rail facilities we produce rails applying the most demanding quality standards.
This video shows the rigorous quality controls that are applied to continue promoting the development of this exciting product.
Laboratory
We have full equipment laboratories with the last technology in the market for performing all the test required in the most exigent manufacturing standards.
Among all these tests performed in our facilities, and regarding to rails, it is worth mentioning:
- Tensile test
- Hardness test (running surface and cross section)
- Impact test
- Charpy Test
- Chemical composition
- Bauman prints
- Micrography
- Inclusion ratings
- Macroetching
- Decarburisation
- SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope)…
Moreover, ArcelorMittal issues quality certificates of all its rails in accordance with EN 10204 standard.
ArcelorMittal Certifications
For ArcelorMittal, manufacturing high quality products was always the main goal.
Therefore, the emphasis lies on the fact that our products must meet the needs that our customers require in their orders. We can improve the technology and widen the control range in order to get a final product with the highest quality.
The introduction of the quality assurance system according to ISO 9001 standards is a step forward to improve the organisation and to increase the quality of our products.
ArcelorMittal is homologated in the main Railway Administrations, and does not stop working on enlarging the list all around the world:Homologated by DB (GERMANY), ADIF (SPAIN), FINNISH RAIL (FINLAND), REFER (PORTUGAL), SNCF (FRANCE), SNCB (BELGIUM), OBB (AUSTRIA), SBB (SWITZERLAND), MRS (BRAZIL), ADIF (ARGENTINA), TCDD (TURKEY), PKP (POLAND), CFR (ROMANIA), NETWORK RAIL (UK) and many more.
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