L&T Opens Fully Automated Casting Facility for Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-speed Train Project

AHMEDABAD (Metro Rail News): NHSRCL on Saturday announced the opening of a state-of-the-art casting facility in Anand, Gujarat, to manufacture J-slabs for the MAHSR Project. The facility has been built mainly to manufacture slabs for Package T3 of the MAHSR project. 

The casting facility spans an area of 1 Lakh sq meters with a production capacity of 45,000 pre-cast track J-slabs. The slabs manufactured here will be installed on a 116.175 Km section of the line connecting Vadodara City 7 Sabarmati Depot in Gujarat. 

The entire casting facility has been constructed over eight months from its inception of civil works. The facility has been created to ensure the production of 45,000 pre-cast track slabs for the MAHSR Project. The facility can produce about 60 track slabs per day.

The track facility has automatic technologies, including a Concrete Distribution System, Boiler Plant, RO Plant and electric overhead travelling (EOT) cranes.  It can store up to 9000 track slabs to facilitate seamless track installation. 

Another track slab manufacturing facility is underway at Kim Village near Surat district in Gujarat for track slab construction for 236 km of the MAHSR corridor in Gujarat.

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