Company Presentation

2. Components & Equipments Components & Equipments for
for Signalling Rolling Stock
Plants for railway sleepers Infrastructure

3. Components and equipment for Signalling
WEGH GROUP operates in the safety
equipment and railway signalling sector with
over 50 years of consolidated know-how in
the design and manufacture of mechanical,
electromechanical and electronic equipment.
The range of mechanical products includes
particularly significant equipment such as
switch points machines, level crossing barrier
machines, train detectors, etc.
In our range of electronic products, LED line
signals, LED roadside signals for level
crossings, blinkers, power supply units,
devices for delaying or advancing excitation
of railway relays, etc have been developed.

4. Components and equipment for Rolling Stock
WEGH GROUP is particularly active in the
design and manufacture of components for
rolling stock.
The production range offers automatic door
systems, lighting systems and components,
control and drive devices, electric coach
control boards, etc.
WEGH GROUP's own design capability
enables it to offer assemblies or components
with characteristics of high reliability that
allow the company to place itself as qualified
point of reference in the co-design of rolling
stock and offer suitable assistance in the
application of its products.

5. Plants for railway sleepers
WEGH GROUP offers itself to the railway
infrastructure market as a point of reference
in the manufacture of complete plants for
the production of pre-stressed concrete
railway sleepers and turnout bearers.
The acquired know-how has allowed WEGH
GROUP production to be included among the
most qualified in the world and to offer itself
with competence in the manufacture of both
LONG LINE and CAROUSEL systems.

6. Infrastructure
WEGH GROUP offers its services to the
infrastructure market with the realization of
machines and complete plants for the
manufacture of bridge beams and
prefabricated concrete elements.
The many years of experience, resulting from
the numerous prefabrication plants around
the world, has allowed the design and
manufacture of specialized machines and
equipment in the production process of
prefabricated reinforced concrete and pre-
stressed concrete elements

7. WEGH GROUP Italian know-how for the railway industry
The various specializations and corresponding
know-how acquired and consolidated over the
years allow WEGH GROUP to realize important
synergies in the development of innovative
products and to offer itself as reference partner
in the various sector of intervention.

8. WEGH GROUP Italian know-how for the railway industry
The guarantee of quality and reliability of
WEGH GROUP products together with
meeting delivery dates and an after-sales
service of recognized efficiency and
competence make WEGH GROUP an ideal
partner for achieving objectives that give
increasingly good performance.

9. In the 2008 we celebrated over 50 years of activity…
The history of WEGH GROUP began in 1958 with the birth of “Niccoli e Naldoni”
an established enterprise in the Italian railway sector both in Signalling and Rolling Stock.
To this main sector, various companies have then been added, each of them with a specific
know-how
BIMA: company active in prefab plants planning and manufacturing
SICI Impianti: company in the field of concrete sleepers plants and precast ;
TECNO DEVICE: company active in signalling systems planning and manufacturing
LES Elettronica: company in research and planning of highly reliable electronic apparatuses ;
IPA: company with an important know-how as manufacturer of precast elements for railway sector.
Today it is possible to find all these excellences combined in WEGH GROUP, which achieves the synergies to
obtain products always more and more groundbreaking and up to date .
Brands of our history

10. WEGH GROUP mission
WEGH GROUP main mission is the customer satisfaction,
which must be high, starting from the first contact with
the company ,up to the after-sale service, considered as
essential.
It is with this eye that WEGH GROUP looks at the future,
constantly searching for customer satisfaction, as main
element in each decision concerning specific company
functions.

11. Business philosophy
To obtain the Mission results, WEGH GROUP pursues 3 main goals :
- To join excellences of other product lines in order to better satisfy the overall customer’s needs
through the acquisition of field companies with specific know-how.
- Focus on the company core business
- To be based in markets where growing opportunities and interests converge

12. WEGH GROUP Strategic Staff
"Different skills together to respond to market needs…"
Small: to guarrantee a quick reply to the management
decisions
Young: to develop strategies for the
future
CEO Managing Director Sales Coordination Manager Technical Department Manager

13. WEGH GROUP Operative Staff
Professionalism: to guarantee the handling of all functions
Young: to take up all the challenges that the market has to offer
Dedicated to reach the goals
Human Resource Manager Brand Manager Finance Department Manager Quality Assurance Manager

14. Production sites
Parma
La Spezia
Prato
Bergamo

15. Production sites

16. India Branch Ecuador Branch Egypt Branch

17. Research & Development Center
The WEGH GROUP design and development processes
are carried out by particularly qualified and expert
personnel and make use of up-to-date CAD modelling
and simulation techniques as well as cutting-edge
experimental techniques.
These processes enjoy the contribution of special
Verification and Validation functions, independent
from the project teams, which follow the entire
design procedure up to the issue of the final
project validated for use.

18. Research & Development Center
The constant monitoring of the products in operation and the
marked sensitivity developed over time to the results offered
by it are the main source on the basis of which the RESEARCH
AND DEVELOPMENT functions develop the guidelines for
perpetual improvement of the product in line with the
company's mission:
Manufacture equipment and plants that give technologically
good performance with extremely high levels of reliability
and maintainability to guarantee a fast return of investment
and better management of the railway business.

19. Research & Development Center

20. Some references

21. Our events: PRESENTATION OF “RAILWAY ENGINEERING” MAGAZINE
Eng. Mauro Moretti, CEO of Gruppo FS meet Mr. Marco
Ranzieri, General Manager of WEGH GROUP
Eng. Mauro Moretti, CEO of Gruppo FS
and Eng. Renato Casale, CEO of Italferr

22. Our events: INAUGURATION OF WEGH GROUP PLANT IN BRAZIL
Brazilian President Lula da Silva inaugurated the new plant for the production of prestressed concrete railway
sleepers realized by WEGH GROUP for Construtora Norberto Odebrecht.

23. Our events: INAUGURATION OF WEGH GROUP PLANT IN INDIA
President of South/East Railway (India), Mr. U.C. Dwadash Shreni, inaugurated a new Long Line plant for the
production of prestressed concrete railway sleepers realized by WEGH GROUP for M/S ANNAVARAM CONCRETE
PVT LTD.

24. Our events: INAUGURATION OF WEGH GROUP PLANT IN ETHIOPIA
Ethiopia Transport Minister, inaugurated the plant for the rehabilitation of Ethiopian railway network realized by
WEGH GROUP for COMSA Consortium.

25. Components & equipments for Components & equipments for
Signalling Rolling Stock
Plants for railway sleepers Infrastructure

26. Components and equipment for Signalling
WEGH GROUP operates in the safety
equipment and railway signalling sector with
over 50 years of consolidated know-how in
the design and manufacture of mechanical,
electromechanical and electronic equipment.
The range of mechanical products includes
particularly significant equipment such as
switch points machines, level crossing barrier
machines, train detectors, etc.
In our range of electronic products, LED line
signals, LED roadside signals for level
crossings, blinkers, power supply units,
devices for delaying or advancing excitation
of railway relays, etc have been developed.

27. Components and equipment for Signalling
In switch point machine “MET TD03”
MET TD 03 is a machine for simple point
switches, 60E1 (UIC60) track, viable up to
300 Km/h with relocated path, which,
through appropriate changes, can be also
used on point switches of different track and
gauge.
It is usable on point switches with single
drive point and has identical dimensions of a
standard crossing timber in order to allow
the packing of sleepers with automatic
machines.
It is laid in exchange of the first headstock of
point switches.

28. Components and equipment for Signalling
Level crossing barrier machines “PL TD 96/2”
TD96/2 is an electromechanical machine for
level crossing barrier complete with a
groundbreaking system of
hydraulic drive .
It has been designed by WEGH GROUP
to cut off the maintenance costs and
to be in line with the continuous
research for improvement of safety
Installations and signalling.
Thanks to the high technical ability
of WEGH GROUP, TD 96/2 allows a
high level of personalization based
on user‘s requirements, ensuring
the adaptability requisites, typical
of the company planning mission.

29. Components and equipment for Signalling
Driver's indication signal road side
The colour-light signal is a device used in
driver's indication signals .
It signals the level crossing bars to the car
drivers through red light emission when they
are closed or in the process of closing.
The unit of light is made up of a led matrix.
It can be supplied both with 95Vcc supply or
with 12Vcc supply.

30. Components and equipment for Signalling
Deactivation delay device
The deactivation delay device has the
purpose of cutting off the supply of an
external relay connected to the device itself
after a pre-determined period of time.
The deactivation delay device is made up of
five cards :
- switch card;
- base card;
- A side card;
- B side card;
- central card.

31. Components and equipment for rolling stock
WEGH GROUP is particularly active in the
design and manufacture of components for
rolling stock.
The production range offers automatic door
systems, lighting systems and components,
control and drive devices, electric coach
control boards, etc.

32. Components and equipment for rolling stock
WEGH GROUP's own design capability
enables it to offer assemblies or
components with characteristics of high
reliability that allow the company to place
itself as qualified point of reference in the
co-design of rolling stock and offer suitable
assistance in the application of its products.

33. Components and equipment for rolling stock
Knowledge and use of mechanics,
electronics, hydrodynamics and pneumatics
enables WEGH GROUP to meet users'
increasingly demanding requirements, to
place the high level of know-how achieved
and the many years of experience in the
sector at the service of a constant
improvement in its products and guarantee
the reliability required by the sector and also
their low life cost.

34. Plants for railway sleepers
WEGH GROUP offers itself to the railway
infrastructure market as a point of reference
in the manufacture of complete plants for
the production of pre-stressed concrete
railway sleepers and turnout bearers.
The acquired know-how has allowed WEGH
GROUP production to be included among the
most qualified in the world and to offer itself
with competence in the manufacture of both
LONG LINE and CAROUSEL systems.

35. Plants for railway sleepers
The performance of the designed and
manufactured equipment allows the group to
meet the increasing precision and quality
requirements required by organizations using
the product.
The enterprise's
thirty years of
experience and the
quantity of projects
realized guarantee
a qualified production
of sleepers and bearers
for railway lines
in several countries
and continents.

36. Our Long Line Plant
In-line cycle where the moulds are in gangs
of eight and the pre-stress against
abutments into foundations.
A complete set of machine to accomplish
with all the various phases of the production
process.

37. Our Long Line Plant
High productivity and efficiency , the Long
Line system can be applied to any type of
fastening: Pandrol, Vossloh, Stedef, D.E. Clips,
Denik, KB, etc.
Moulds designed to allow changing of the
necessary type of fastening by replacing the
plates being screwed onto the structure of
the mould.

38. Our Long Line Plant
The adherent wire or strand system
represents considerable savings in sleeper
production, being standard product easily
available on the market and avoiding any
need of specifically processing.

39. Our Turnout Plant
Simplicity and efficiency : the WEGH GROUP
turnout concrete bearers line are available
in self-resistant solution (the mould frame
support the pre-stressing force) and
therefore with no need of foundations, as
well as in traditional system with stressing
and relaxation anchor post.

40. Our Turnout Plant
Lines are designed to guaranty a fast and
easy replacement on bottoms and casting
separators during the phase of changing of
product typology. All the production process
is fully assisted by machines .

41. Our Carousel Plant
A closed cycle where the moulds are in gangs
of four each of which stressed against the
mould structure.
These move around the production line to
various stations where individual operations
are carried out before moving on to the next
station.

42. Our Carousel Plant
Various pre-stressing systems available:
 pre-stressing system by smooth pre-
stressing wires button-headed to the end
anchor plates
 pre-stressing system by indented wires
post –tensioned system by sheathed and
threaded steel wires with end anchor steel
plates

43. Our Carousel Plant
Controlled curing system:
A controlled cycle into insulated curing chambers
climate maintaining the ideal conditions for the
curing process, including water spry nozzles to
assure the proper moisture.

44. Our Carousel Plant
Moulds:
Accurate self resistant moulds to assure the most strictly
tolerances, interchangeable rail fastening shoulders
holding plates which are finely adjustable for outer
shoulder gauge, rail seat cant and for twist.

45. Infrastructure
WEGH GROUP offers its services to the
infrastructure market with the realization of
machines and complete plants for the
manufacture of bridge beams and
prefabricated concrete elements.

46. Infrastructure
The many years of experience, resulting from
the numerous prefabrication plants around
the world, has allowed the design and
manufacture of specialized machines and
equipment in the production process of
prefabricated reinforced concrete and pre-
stressed concrete elements.

47. Infrastructure
The range of products meets the
requirements of the whole production
process starting from the casting of the
concrete that is managed in various ways
and obtains the best performance with the
adoption of the Speedy model casting
machine, up to the management of storage
areas satisfied by the Hydrolift model tyred
portal crane.
Likewise, WEGH GROUP is organized to offer
the design and construction of “turn key”
factories in addition to training and
assistance in the stages leading up to the
start of production.

48. www.gwegh.it
Wegh Group srl
Via G. Di Vittorio, 87
43045 Fornovo Taro – Parma - Italy
Phone: +39 0525 300111
Fax: +39 0525 300150
info@gwegh.it
Prato Factory
Via del Lazzaretto, 113
59100 Prato - Italy
La Spezia Factory
Via Ameglia, 78
19030 Romito Magra - La Spezia - Italy
Parma Factory
Via G. Di Vittorio, 87
43045 Fornovo Taro - Parma - Italy