Al-Burhan Group resumed work to complete the rehabilitation of its factory's after 3 years occupation by the the Multi National Forces.

According to the schedule plan which has been agreed with factory consultant RM&S, the factory will be in operation in 6 to 8 months and the production will be based on making some advance alternation in the production technology to produce 1260 concrete sleepers per day with Pandrol Fast Clip System and PR607.

Further planning to increase the daily production to reach 3000 concrete sleepers per day by providing full automatic machines to convey the concrete from the Batching Plant to the moulds and to de-mould the sleepers which will lead to reduce the number of employee and increase the daily production.

Concrete sleepers are essential for Iraqi Republic Railways in order to support the Iraqi railway network in construction of the new railway lines and to maintainethe old railway tracks.

All the new Sleepers will be manufactured according to the Quality Control Standard of Iraqi Republic Railway with high speed of up to 250 Km/h. [Click here to see the design].

This factory is one of the biggest factories in the Middle East was built in the eighties of the last century . It was manufactured by Dow-Mac System / UK but due to war and sanction the factory was stopped since then.

Al-Burhan Group have contracted with Ministry of Transport to rehabilitate the factory and keep it in production