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Safer tracks and less noisy. The battle against “moireing”, typical mechanical wearing signs of tracks, has started. In Centre-Northern Italy, it returned to RFI, already over 500 km of restored railway, with ground and perfectly re-profiled tracks. “Grizzly”, precious alley of GCF (Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie), is one of Scheuchzer’s power profiling trains, Swiss sub-contractor boasting at least sixty years of experience in the sector.
Two super Suite rapide trains side by side on the same railway yard that is being used as GCF’s construction site in Nantes. The singular, unusual and rare event (only 3 Suite Rapide trains in France) that has attracted many curious people and those fond of trains in Nantes construction site, is the result of activities planned by GCF and Transalp Renouvellement to provide for the maintenance of trains and high-efficiency machines involved in Lots 2 and 3 of the Suite Rapide rolling stock.
“This is a big day for Kosovo.” The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, has welcomed the official signing of the contract which assigns renewal work on the Fushë Kosovë - Hani i Elezit line to GCF (Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie). Scheduled to be completed within three years, the project will link the Balkans to countries in the European Union.
A healthy company that consolidates the growth and highly focuses on innovation. Rossi Group, in the traditional annual convention, shows its cards and confirms the development strategies that led GCF and Gefer, the two companies specialized in railway construction, to be among the top Builders.
"Proud to have helped RFI with renewal work on the railway lines” Mario Alvigini, Site Director for Gefer, said. With support from the Novi Ligure-based company which is part of the Rossi Group, the railway lines involved in the dramatic collapse of the Morandi Viaduct in Genoa this summer have now been rebuilt in record time.
A new look for the Mestre - Venice S. Lucia bridge over the lagoon. GCF has just finished installing the new innovative gantries which not only support a completely new, more efficient overhead contact line, but also give a new sober, modern look to the bridge that leads to the most famous city of art in the world.
Official inauguration of Rabat-Agdal Railway Station. His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, two days after the launch of the first high-speed train in the African continent, wished to celebrate the amazing new railway station of the Moroccan capital formally and personally by inviting the companies chosen by ONCF (Moroccan railways) to implement the project: Moroccan company TGCC (civil works) and the Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie (entire range of technological works).
Another 160 kilometres of renewal work for the last two GCF work sites in France. Work on the fifth work site for 2018 has begun over the last few days in both Lots 2 and 3 of the TransalpRenouvellement consortium. It is now in full swing and involves two powerful Suite Rapide convoys recently boosted by the purchase of high performing trains and machinery.
Recently unveiled at Innotrans in Berlin, it aroused a great deal of general interest. Visitors to the trade fair were impressed by the fact that the Dynamic Weighting System, which is used to measure railway track loads and has been developed by the GCF R&D Department with collaboration from the Sapienza University of Rome and Milan Polytechnic, is accurate and reliable as well as lightweight, versatile and easy to install.
The first railway builder to represent Italy abroad. GCF takes fifteenth place overall in the 2018 national ranking drawn up by Ance in relation to penetration by Italian construction companies into world markets. GCF consolidates its role of excellence as a specialist in railway systems and a driving force behind economic development.
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