60
| SUPPLY CHAIN
Rail Products – investing in green technology The team at Rail Products has drawn on decades of front-line working experience in the rail industry to help develop the company into a leading global manufacturer of Rail/Road vehicles
W
orking in conjunction with Manitou, Rail Products has invested considerable time and money in R&D to ensure its engineers have had access to the very latest technology. The result means the company continues to design and produce machines that are multifunctional, and which provide a unique and competitive offering to customers. This has earnt the company industry plaudits
Rail Professional
for its foresight and development of Rail/ Road products that will always redefine the parameters of a machine’s capabilities. Last year and integral to the companies’ future, Rail Products invested in a new manufacturing operation in Poznan, Poland. The move to a new larger purpose-built factory, alongside the recruitment of a skilled local labour force was the catalyst in allowing the company to significantly increase its productivity. This was much
needed to meet the high world-wide demand for its innovative and technically advanced MEWPs. On signing the agreement back in August 2021, Managing Director Derek Burns confirmed the new Polish operation would now be responsible for all future research and development work which would see a greater investment in green technology. He said: ‘As a global organization Rail Products is now fully committed to developing and