Railcare Group AB, founded in 1992 and headquartered in Skelleftehamn, Sweden, specializes in providing innovative railway maintenance solutions. The company offers a range of services, including track maintenance, vacuum excavation, relining, and specialized transportation. Railcare is renowned for developing unique machinery, such as the Railvac and MPVe (battery-powered maintenance vehicles), which enhance efficiency and safety in railway operations. Committed to sustainability and technological advancement, Railcare operates primarily in Scandinavia and the United Kingdom, delivering cutting-edge railway maintenance services to clients across these regions.
On behalf of the locomotive rental company Nordic Re-Finance, Railcare is working to upgrade and adapt a total of 28 locomotives to be rented out to the Scandinavian market.
In northern Sweden, a new green industry is being formed, and the railway is a central part of climate-smart and efficient transport. There is also a general increase in demand for both freight and passenger transport, which puts the focus on railway maintenance.
Railcare has signed a new 2-years framework agreement with Network Rail. Network Rail has overall responsibility for the construction and maintenance of large parts of the UK rail network.
The battery-powered MPV (Multi-Purpose Vehicle) is a maintenance machine for the railway that is currently working in perhaps its most advantageous environment – in a railway tunnel on the Citybanan – Stockholm.
Railcare has renewed its agreement with LKAB Malmtrafik relating to iron ore transports. The value of the agreement is approximately SEK 50 million and spans the period until 31 December 2022.
Asia is a large market and Railcare is now ready to take the step into a new market consisting of many railways, including subway and mining tracks. With our modern, sustainable, and efficient machines together with our home markets as our foundation, this strategic investment is the next step in Railcare's company development
Railway specialist Railcare presented its new innovation the MPV (Multi-Purpose Vehicle). The new maintenance machine is equipped with self-propelled vacuum pumps, hydraulics, and control cabins enabling the vehicle to be used as a complement to Railcare’s vacuum excavator, snow melter, and function as a towing vehicle for, for example, ballast wagons during track work. What makes the MPV extra unique is that it is battery powered.
Railcare has received an order for 6 million SEK from Loram for machine parts, namely power packs for a Railvac in Brazil for delivery in November 2021. Loram is a North American railway company with which Railcare has had a business relationship since 2000.