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SETGA will light up the Dutch railways
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SETGA will light up the Dutch railways

Pro-Rail, the public railway infrastructure manager in the Netherlands, awards the exterior lighting of its stations to Galician company Setga. Not only the trains that connect the country of Van Gogh will come from Spanish companies such as Caf or Talgo, but the light that connects and moves Holland will now be made in Spain.

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  • Holland
  • LED

In mid-2017, Pro-Rail, the Duth equivalent of the Spanish Adif, launched a contest for the supply of LED luminaires for lighting in all stations in the country. Many manufacturers participated in an arduous process of pre-selection and approval, but only three brands were selected by the Dutch railway management company to participate in this tender: Dutch company Philips, Belgian company Schréder, and Spanish company Setga.

The Galician manufacturer was the winner of the project to provide the exterior lighting of the platforms with a value of 1.8 million euro. Despite the complex technological requirements, SETGA achieved the highest score in technical terms and total guarantee.

Its patented anti-humidity technology applied to the LED module, based on high-resistance IP67 and IP68 seals with Argon gas have been highly valued by Pro-Rail when estimating a longer life cycle and the consequent reduction in total maintenance costs. Equally important was the speed of supply achieved through a production system based on native manufacturing of 97% of the value added in components through a JIT system (“Just in Time”) composed exclusively of auxiliary industries throughout Galicia and further afield in Spain.

This scheme has allowed this tender to be submitted with a maximum delivery period of five weeks, which has even been beaten in supply of the first nine stations, achieving a record period of four weeks. Stations such as Rotterdam, Zuid and Rhenen, among nine others, have already been equipped with the TSD LED luminaires manufactured by the Pontevedra factory since last November. This is undoubtedly the beginning of a project that will cover a significant part of the 397 stations of the Dutch Rail Network over the next five years.

With this milestone, this thriving Galician manufacturer demonstrates not only that it is consolidated in the municipal market of the Netherlands with the presence of its technology in over 84 municipalities, including Amsterdam and its metropolitan area, Almere, Nijmegen, Assen and the Hague; it also reaffirms its capacity in the market of the great governmental infrastructures of Holland, after illuminating the expansion of the port of Rotterdam between 2016-2017, as well as various infrastructures of the Dutch defense ministry.

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