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SweMaint Wheel Maintenance doubles turning capacity with SEK 25 m investment

Laying a stronger foundation for the competitiveness of rail freight is SweMaint AB’s mission. The role of Northern Europe’s leading supplier of repair and maintenance services for freight wagons also comes with a responsibility to continually deliver the right solution at the right price. The company is now once again taking its level of service up a notch in line with its strategic long-term goals.

SweMaint and Covid-19

Keeping infrastructure and rail freight transport up and running is fundamental to consumption, society and, by extension, our entire prosperity. Several of Sweden’s industrial companies rely on rail freight, which has great advantages over other methods of transport in terms of capacity and especially from a sustainability perspective.

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Four new powerful trucks give SweMaint nationwide coverage

As a continuing part of SweMaint AB’s strategic long-term efforts to lay a stronger foundation for the competitiveness of rail freight, Northern Europe's leading supplier of repair and maintenance services for freight wagons is once again setting the bar higher for service. ‍

Team SWE 33 and SweMaint are doing their part on 21/9 – join and lend a hand

It all started in Estonia in 2008 when 50,000 people came together under the slogan “clean the whole country in five hours". This inspired people around the world to follow the same "one country, one day" formula.

Midwaggon gives way to SweMaint in Ånge

SweMaint is now taking over Midwaggon’s freight wagon maintenance operations in Ånge after doing the same in Borlänge nearly two years ago. Midwaggon will focus fully on locomotive maintenance in Ånge.

Sustainable service and maintenance since 1905

Sustainability issues at SweMaint are managed as an integral part of other business issues. The overall strategic direction is set at the board level and then pursued by management. The strategic direction is governed by the company's management system and its sustainability, work environment, and quality & environmental policies in addition to SweMaint’s core values.

Higher carbon dioxide emissions – a sure sign of more rail freight

After decreasing for years, carbon dioxide emissions from road traffic are on the rise again. Preliminary estimates show a 0.5 per cent increase in greenhouse gas emissions from road traffic in 2018, primarily as a result of increased truck traffic, according to a report written by the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) presented on 27 February. This increase in truck traffic poses a threat to climate goals. According to the report, meeting the environmental goals that have been set will require a substantial decrease in emissions from cars and trucks.

Rail freight traffic to Port of Gothenburg on the rise

In 2018, 398,000 TEU was transported to or from the port by rail. These figures were the strongest in the final quarter of the year when container freight transported by rail increased by as much as 27 per cent.