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Quarry products

Quarry product division: your materials are in good hands!

Do you need strong carrying capacity for supplying your industries and customers? Are you looking for optimum rotations to keep plants and construction sites supplied?

Our role: Being your partner in success!

Quarry Products Fret SNCFWe deliver your materials to your plant sites, storage platforms and customer job sites, while supporting your industrial and commercial performance.

Offers to match your requirements

Large carrying capacity

Thousands, even millions of tons of materials leave your quarries, and your storage capacity is limited. Our 22-wagon heavy load trains carry up to 1360 short tons. They can be loaded in three hours.

 

Reliability

You supply industrial or job sites which will not tolerate late delivery.
We provide regular weekly shuttle wagons  so you can plan your rotations.

The Quarry product division is...

BTP Branch

  • Rail work
    2 million tons/year
    60% unit trains
    40% individual wagons
  • Aggregates
    8.8 million tons/year
    100% unit trains
  • Cement
    2.1 million tons/year
     100% unit trains
  • Other materials
    1 million tons/year

Minerals for industrial use
5 million tons/year
100% unit trains

  • Sand and quartz
  • Limestone
  • Glass wool
  • Other minerals, kaolin, feldspar

Lumber
800,000 tons/year
53% unit trains
47% individual wagons

  • Logs
  • Sawnwood and Panels

Transport of Waste
96% individual wagons

Responsiveness

You'd like to set up an efficient, competitive flow, to establish your position at a construction site.
We put together specific offers with you:

  • when leaving the quarry, heading for the stations nearest to your delivery sites .
  • as straight rail transport, as well as end-to-end delivery with FERCAM.

We take you far outside your trading area, you gain market share!

Nearness

Our market managers and sales representatives are specialists in your business.
Our regional agencies and Customer Service Center are at your service, keeping close track of your needs:

  • 11 market managers nationally, specialists in every business sector.
  • 6 regional agencies: Lille, Bordeaux-Toulouse, Chalon en champagne, Saint Pierre des Corps, Lyon-Narbonne 
  • 38 quarries with private sidings in France
  • 2 quarries with private sidings in Belgium
  • International transport available, leaving or towards: Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Germany, Poland.

 

You appreciate reliability

Through multi-year agreements, we become your partners in success for the long haul.

  • You let us know your expectations and provide the merchandise to ship;
  • We transport your merchandise on the basis of a plan drawn up jointly;

You achieve gains in productivity.

Railways favoring sustainable development

The train is your most ecological transport solution.

Handling of waste

We are owner-operators of the trains assembled by Ecorail at the request of public entities.

Let's win the LGV together!

Seizing the opportunity offered by French and European High Speed Lines (LGV), INFRA SNCF asked us to transport aggregates and ballast from your LGV approved quarries.


Thus, we contribute to processing or disposing of:

  • 550,000 tons/year in the Marseilles metropolitan area.
  • 100,000 tons/year in Faucigny Genevois, near the Swiss border.

1 train = 50 trucks

 

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