The STRAIL Success Story
From the first STRAIL Press (panel) to this date, STRAIL has a track record of successes spanning more than 30 years:
1976
First STRAIL Press
First STRAIL installation at Recklinghausen, Germany
1980
HiRail version for the Americas
1989
Dedication of the home-designed STRAIL production plant
1993
First use of STRAIL on a bridge (Oxberg Bridge, Sweden)
Chemnitz, Germany: Project with 25 m minimum track radius
Corundum surface
1994
Kawasaki, Japan: Container Seaport
1997
pedeSTRAIL named Product of the Year
Rail Filler for green tracks– first installation in Berlin, Germany
STRAIL Locking System
1998
Europe's largest STRAIL track covering, Wels, Austria
Rail filler for green tracks named product of the year
1st prize of the FkuR awarded to the STRAILprofile
1999
STRAIL domain Chemnitz
First installation of multi-chamber filler profiles in Augsburg, Germany
STRAIL Testbed
First STRAIL Info Letter
Installation of STRAIL in Austria, Container Terminal Wels
2000
Internet www.strail.com
Subsidiary STRAIL France established
2001
Second STRAIL production plant
First track cover on a high speed line (TGV Paris-Marseilles)
2002
Izmir Interurban
Green track element and pedeSTRAIL in Milano, Italy
First installation of STRAIL railway crossing systems in Serbia
2003
STRAIL on the "Train capitale" exhibition on the Paris Champs Elyssees
Installation of innoSTRAIL (wide gauge) in Ireland
First innoSTRAIL installation in Japan
New CNC milling machine
2004
New refrigerated racked storage
STRAIL products LGA approved
Capacity expansion press 10
STRAIL buys tram through ebay
2005
STRAIL 2005 (1-tongue/groove, new surface design, better edge protection
New method cold bonding STRAIL (for special panels such as Intervia, Radius, Sidings)
First innoSTRAIL railway crossing in Africa
Installation of STRAIL on the Belgrade Fair Ground in Serbia
Installation of STRAIL in Gdansk in poland
Great STRAIL cossing before the Storebelt tunnel in Danmark
Installation of a STRAIL/pedeSTRAIL combination in Belgrade
Zammer Tunnel - installation of STRAIL as a rerailing point for Road-Rail Vehicles
2006
pontiSTRAIL (outer panels system for high loads)
veloSTRAIL (inner panel system without flange grooves)
STRAILastic systems (green track elements and multi-chamber fillers) in Belgrade, Serbia
STRAILastic green track systems for the Swiss Glattalbahn line
Danzig is the Polish "STRAIL City"
The highest pedeSTRAIL crossing in Switzerland is at 3,089 meters altitude (Matterhorn)
STRAIL celebrates 30th anniversary
2007
Longest (48 m) veloSTRAIL crossing in Salzburg, Austria
first STRAIL railway level crossing in Brazil (Rua Pinto de Moura)
Piggyback transport terminal in Lovosice, Czech Republic
Platform edge "Marseille", later renamed STRAILedge
Installtion of STRAILastic_USM in the Viadukt Sembranche in Switzerland
2008
Relaunch www.strail.com
STRAILastic marketing campaign
Developement of a test bench with the companie Bomag
First STRAIL level crossing in Brasilia (Rua Pinto de Moura)
Project installation of STRAIL in the Terminal of Lovosice
Installation of STRAIL in Vattenfall for Road-Rail Vehicles
Installation of STRAILastic_USM, Zillertal Railway
Installation of STRAILastic_R in Berlin
Installation of STRAILastic_DUO at the Glattalbahn
Installation of the new grooved rail track insulation system STRAILastic_P in Berlin
Installation of STRAILastic_S in Serbia and Oslo
Installation of STRAILastic_DUO and STRAILastic_S in Glattal
2009
Market launch of the 1.20 m plate of STRAIL and veloSTRAIL
Installation of the 1,20 m veloSTRAIL panel in Hamburg on the Kattwyk bridge
First installation of pedeSingle on the Mosel bridge in Koblenz
KRAIBURG group