EoW January 2014

News Corporate

Silver Fox lining to re-signalling contract

stations, 191 trainsets, 49 engineering trains and six heritage trains, followed by a two-year warranty period. As part of this project, Silver Fox LSZH (low smoke zero halogen) tie on cable labels are being used to label both low and high voltage power cables on the LUL rail network. LUL has adopted a red-on-white cable label for high voltage cables and black-on-white cable label for low voltage cables. Silver Fox – UK Website : www.silverfox.co.uk

system in operation on Shenzhen Metro Line 3 in China and also the one operating on the Metro de Madrid Lines 1 and 6 in Spain. The LUL contract is for the signalling renewal and provision of an ATC system for the four sub-surface lines, which carry some 1.3m passengers a day. Together, the lines comprise 40 per cent of the LUL network and carry 25 per cent of the total ridership. By 2018, Bombardier will equip the 310km of track line (40km in tunnels), 113

Thorne with Bombardier Transportation, is supplying the Silver Fox Fox-in-a-Box Cable Label System for use on the London Underground (LUL) SSR Contract – reportedly the largest metro re-signalling contract ever undertaken in the world. The system, from the leading UK manufacturer of labelling solutions, Silver Fox, is based around the Fox-in-a-Box thermal printer using the Labacus Innovator Professional Software. This printer can provide complex and multiple cable labels, split cable labels, cross-ferruling and the variable replication of cells. Thorne & Derrick is a national distributor and worldwide exporter of cable installation, cable jointing and electrical equipment for industrial and hazardous areas; the £354m contract for SSR automatic train control (ATC) signalling upgrade for LUL was awarded to Bombardier Transportation in June 2011. At the heart of the new system is Bombardier’s proven CITYFLO 650 ATC system which uses communication-based train control technology. It is similar to the & Derrick, along

New chief executive takes the reins Beck and Pollitzer, based in Kent, UK, has appointed Andrew Hodgson as the new chief executive officer. 
He replaced Tony Percival who has retired after more than 30 years in the industry. Mr Hodgson joined the company from Sulzer Dowding & Mills, where was managing director and had responsibility for 23 sites in the UK and two joint ventures overseas. 
Prior to this he worked as a director for Flowserve Corporation.
 As CEO of Beck and Pollitzer, he will oversee all areas of the business in both the UK and the 13 countries in which it operates worldwide. Beck and Pollitzer – UK Website : www.beck-pollitzer.com

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