The state Corporation will provide more than 650 ultra high strength glass products for driver’s cabs

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Obninsk Research and Production Enterprise Technologiya named after A.G. Romashin will provide more than 650 ultra high strength glass products for subway train cabs before 2026. Windscreen can withstand the impact of an item weighing 0.5 kg at a speed of up to 180 km/h. The structural optical products will be used in 60 new trains in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Nizhny Novgorod. 

Each head car of the same-type Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk and Baltiets trains is furnished with six structural optical products. The glass is made using a heat-strengthened triplex technique — two silicate glasses are bonded together by a polymer film to ensure driver safety and comfortable visibility. Glazing of the Moskva-2024 trains is electrically heated to ensure safe operation of the train on open subway sections in any season, thus, retaining the high optical performance of the glasses at low temperatures. 

Rostec is currently a leader in high-performance glazing with 70% Russian market share. ORPE Technologiya produces more than 400 types of high-performance structural optical products for airliners, locomotives and subway trains. Products made by the Obninsk-based factory are used, for example, on the Moskva-2024 trains that can be found on the Zamoskvoretskaya subway line in Moscow.