The WireStanchions system enables efficient transportation of wire coils through stacked loading and simple load securing. Compared to transporting bundles in one layer with accordingly long trains, fewer wagons are now required as each wagon can carry up to 40 to 50 percent more payload. A 2×45 ft InnoWaggon with the WireStanchions can transport up to 38 wire coil bundles with a payload of 141 tons.

15 2×45 ft InnoWaggons equipped with the WireStanchions system have been in use for voestalpine‘s inter-plant transportation since August 2023. The project has a transport capacity of around 2,000 truck transports per year, which are now transported by rail from the wire rod mill in St. Peter-Freienstein, Austria, to the wire drawing plant in Finsterwalde, Germany, some 770 km away. This shift from road to rail saves around 1,500 tons of CO₂.

The wagons, equipped with the WireStanchions system, set new standards in terms of load securing, payload and manipulation of the wire coil bundles. The transports are carried out by DB Cargo. These wire coil bundles, also known as wire coils, are a preliminary product of steel production. The coils, which weigh between 2 and 3.6 tons, often have to be transported from one plant to another for further processing, as in this case.

Stanchions and end walls ensure optimum load securing so that additional securing is no longer necessary. Unloading is safe and fast, and stack loading also reduces the amount of shunting required. The 15 InnoWaggons travel in wagon groups and can be adjusted as required. Carried out by DB Cargo, the transport secures voestalpine’s plant traffic between St. Peter-Freienstein and Finsterwalde.