Knorr-Bremse South Africa, through its subsidiary IFE, is pleased to announce that the door leaf for Passenger Rail Agency South Africa (PRASA) have exceeded the original local content requirement as designated by the Department of Trade Industry & Competition, having now reached over 90% local content. The physical door leaf and door mechanism are being locally manufactured at Knorr-Bremse South Africa’s facility in Kempton Park.
“We have completely localised the production of the doors for the new PRASA trains being delivered by Gibela. On the door leaf, local content is standing at 97%, and on the mechanisms, we are above the 70% threshold,” says Andrae Nieuwoudt, general manager, Knorr-Bremse South Africa.
Andrae Nieuwoudt
General Manager
Knorr-Bremse South Africa
The doors are manufactured according to European EN standards through locally sourced components and then assembled to accommodate the windows and guide rails, whereafter the doors are packaged for delivery to Gibela. The current delivery schedule is set at six train sets per month.
Each train has 36 door systems – three per side of each car. The door control mechanism has been designed to optimise stopping times, ultimately increasing passenger volumes, as well as providing enhanced safety features. The computerised system ensures that the train cannot leave the station unless all doors are closed, whilst at the same time mitigating tampering or system override and ensuring the doors do not open during operation or accidently close on a person. At the same time, an emergency exit system has also been provided.
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Door Leaf
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Door Mechanism
By the end of the current project, Knorr-Bremse would have supplied 21,600 S3 sliding door systems to the project.
“Knorr-Bremse, through its subsidiary IFE, is globally renowned as a reliable partner for the supply of entrance systems, including electro-pneumatic and electric door systems for trains. In South Africa, aside from supplying door systems for PRASA’s X'Trapolis train, we also supplied the door entry system for the Gautrain,” explains Andrae.
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