Escorts has showcased a series of railway products that make rail travel safer both though a blend of deep in-house R&D and strategic collaborations with Global Technology Leaders. The products on display include – High-end Computer Controlled Electronic Locomotive Brake Systems, High-Speed Axle mounted Disc Brakes and Wheel-mounted Disc Brakes for Trainsets and Metros besides the AARH Coupler, Loco and LHB Dampers and Air Springs.
Escorts has collaborated with the Global technology leaders like YUJIN Machinery Ltd- South Korea for Brake Systems for Metro, High Speed trains and Trainsets like the Train -18 or the Vande Bharat Express.
The products developed through in-house R&D and some through Technology collaborations are displayed during the three-day Indian Railway Equipment Exhibition (IREE) 2019, which kick-started at Aerocity in the National Capital on 22nd October.
Escorts’ Railway Equipment Division is working on a game plan towards greater import substitution and input cost optimization through frugal engineering and value innovation in their product offerings.
Dipankar Ghosh, CEO, Escorts Railway Equipment Division (RED), said, “The massive transformation in Indian Railways in the past few years is phenomenal and progressing at an advanced stage. We at Escorts is all set to act as a catalyst in the modernization and indigenization drive of Indian Railways. We are proactively exploring joint ventures with foreign players for high-end technological collaborations under Make In India initiative of the government besides building a deep in-house R&D to develop cutting edge technologies for safer and comfortable rail transport.