Wheel & Axle Plant
The name Wheel & Axle Plant has been changed to Rail Wheel Factory (RWF).
RWF was established for manufacturing wheels and aAxles required for coaches and wagons of the Indian Railways.
Built with World Bank assistance, it was inaugurated by Mrs Indira Gandhi on 15 September 1984.
Cast steel wheel manufacture through controlled pressure pouring. A ladle of molten steel placed in a pouring tank is sealed with an airtight cover. A ceramic tube is at the center. Air is pushed inside this, which pushes the molten steel up through the tube into a graphite mould positioned above the pouring tube. Molten steel fills up the mould, and the wheel is cast.
About 2000 people work at the plant, turning out about:
- 90,000 wheels per year of 4 types
- 48,000 axles per year of 15 types
Turnover of Rs 2.3 billion.
The plant is ISO 9002 Certified.
RWF is situated in Bangalore, India.
Read more about Wheel & Axle Plant: See Also
Famous quotes containing the words wheel, axle and/or plant:
“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“The Star that bids the Shepherd fold,
Now the top of Heav’n doth hold,
And the gilded Car of Day,
His glowing Axle doth allay
In the steep Atlantick stream,”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)