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Thermit

Corporate Member

Overview

Established in the UK since 1958, and as part of the Goldschmidt-Thermit Group, Thermit Welding (GB) Ltd are known throughout the Rail industry, especially, to those involved in the maintenance and well running of the Permanent Way, for their rail welding products; producing moulds, portions and equipment for the majority of rail profiles in use today on the UK’s rail networks.

Tools to complete work to budget and deadline

Innovative thinking

It is the constant drive of innovative thinking that has resulted in the development of Thermit’s service products, such as Rail Grinding, which employs grinding vehicles that can access track in under two minutes and work on track gauges from 1000mm to 1685mm; TRACKSAFEMONITOR for remote monitoring of track that may be prone to subsistence, TRACKBOND, which enables the track engineer to stabilise ballast for a variety of tasks.

Thermit has more apps, (look for Thermit Lookup on your App store or Google play), products and services to enter the industry, and provide the track engineer with the tools to complete the work to budget and deadline.

SPIRIT

The whole Goldschmidt Thermit Group, including Thermit Welding (GB), adhere to the principles and values of their mission statement of SPIRIT

Want to connect
with Thermit?

As a RailEI Corporate Member, Thermit are greatly involved in many of the activities we deliver to our Members and the wider Industry. Our Members get the opportunity to meet and engage with Thermit’s professionals and leaders at most of our Technical Seminars, as well as many of our Training Courses, Section Meetings, Talks, Workshops and other technical events.

Case studies

Discover the latest Thermit projects, activities, impacts and all their incredible work.

Products

Read about the products, services and innovation behind this thriving organisation.

Careers

Find out what career opportunities are currently available.

Community

Visit their community and corporate responsibility pages to learn about how they’re working to make a difference.

Original Thermit®

As the inventor and global market and technology leader in Thermit® welding, Goldschmidt has been setting standards for continuously welded tracks for 125 years.