United Wagon Company launched a new transport mechanical engineering plant TikhvinChemMash for the production of new generation tank cars. The first tank cars for the transportation of chemical freight to the copper smelting enterprise Sredneuralsky Copper Smelter (it is part of Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company) and to the transport and logistic company Polar Freight Company (it is part of Yekaterinburg Commerce and Industry Company) were dispatched from the plant. The Parties are entitled, under the signed agreements, to increase the lot of tank cars of model 15-9545 for the transportation of sulfuric acid (up to 200 units to Sredneuralsky Copper Smelter).

In comparison with standard-type analogues, new generation tank cars are characterized by improved technical and economic features. Tank cars are equipped with Barber bogie with an axle load of 25 tf. The application of this bogie reduces costs of operational use and maintenance of rolling stock.

The tank car's load capacity, increased up to 77 tons, allows to increase the weight of transported freights by more than 10%, and eventually to reduce the required fleet. On the basis of production of TikhvinChemMash UWC intends to manufacture more than 15 models and modifications of tank cars with increased load capacity, intended for transportation of all nomenclature of chemical products (sulfuric acid, methanol, ammonia, caustic, etc.). There are plans to produce at TikhvinChemMash articulated tank cars, to which there are no analogues in the CIS countries.

The production capacity of the plant is up to 3,600 cars per annum. More than 20 suppliers from Europe and America were involved in the project of the plant's creation. The production process of TikhvinChemMash is designed with the application of the best practices of the western and domestic transport mechanical engineering.

Production lines allow to be readjusted for the production of different types of tank cars tailored to the customer's requirements. The main technological equipment is presented by the modern robotic systems and automation. The construction of TikhvinChemMash obtained the backing of the Ministry of Economic Development and the Industry Development Fund, the State guarantee of the Ministry of Finance.