Repair
& maintenance

A major activity for the group

One of the main activities of INVEHO UFF, INVEHO UFO, INVEHO UAB, INVEHO UIP and INVEHO UAP remains maintenance, servicing and repair of wagons for transporting rail freight.

With appropriate infrastructure and modern, high-technology equipment:

  • Covered workshops
  • Rail
  • Transfer
  • Conveyors
  • Shunting
  • Locomotives
  • Overhead cranes
  • Revolving
  • Press
  • Test benches
  • Shot-blasting booth
  • Painting booth
  • Flare pit
  • Washing
A wide range of operations

Associated with experienced, trained and qualified teams, and while complying with the standards in force, we are capable of handling all types of wagons:

  • Flat
  • Tilting wagons
  • Auto Doors
  • Tanks (chemicals / Food products / Gas) )
  • Special powder hoppers

Which means that, today, our workshops benefit from an excellent reputation amongst players in the European market for the quality of their services, their professionalism and their responsiveness.

Mobile
maintenance

Intervention 7d/7, 24h/24

Due to their locations across France, and thanks to significant investment in specialised equipment, INVEHO UFF, INVEHO UFO, INVEHO UAB, INVEHO UIP and INVEHO UAP are capable of providing mobile and autonomous teams, with trained and qualified personnel, to carry out all types of maintenance and breakdown repair work on their clients' sites, anywhere in France, 7 days a week.





Types of mobile operations

Our responsiveness, experience and efficiency means that our workshops have a very good reputation with European railway companies for our mobile operations:

  • Maintenance
  • Lubrication
  • Technical inspections
  • Supply and replacement of brake shoes
  • Detailed brake tests
  • Superstructure repairs
  • Infrastructure repairs
  • Axle replacement
  • Lifting wagons (empty or loaded) )
  • Servicing

Bearing in mind that the safety of personnel, infrastructure and equipment remains our priority.

Degasification
& Washing


INVEHO UFF, INVEHO UFO, INVEHO UAB and INVEHO UAP with trained, qualified and specialised teams, have infrastructure that is efficient, modern and adapted to each product family (gas, hydrocarbons, chemical products,…).



Customised services

Customised know-how for your tanker wagons, whatever the products transported (gas, food products, chemicals, hydrocarbons):

  • Degasification
  • Interior cleaning
  • Exterior cleaning of tanks
  • Neutralisation
  • Sanitisation

Environmentally friendly

To satisfy the restrictions of environmental friendliness in matters of degassing and discharge of waste water, our washing stations are subject to the regulations covering classified installations and inspected by the DREAL.

Specialised and adapted equipment
- High-performance and modern technical installations
- Trained, qualified & specialised teams
- Expertise and experience in the treatment of products in industrial sectors
- Continuous improvement approach

Design office

Design office

The design office, based at INVEHO UFO (France; 18) has more than 40 years of specialisation in the design, development, calculation, tests and approval of wagons for rail freight.

Through its experience, expertise, knowledge and modern outlook, a qualified and diversified team of engineers and technicians with the latest design technology (3-D CAD), will provide an appropriate, optimised and innovative solution to our clients.

Our policy

- Fulfil the requirements of our clients by providing them with the safest and most appropriate solutions within the deadlines

- Be compliant with current standards and techniques (regulatory oversight) to implement projects in accordance with safety, quality and the environment.

- Improve the quality of our services continuously, aiming for perfection with professionalism and responsive teams.

Confidentiality

The professional approach of our design office is based on transparency and trust. We therefore guarantee our client partners studies and expert appraisals, established by our teams, that absolutely respect the confidentiality of the information collected.





Conversion



Our services

With the quality of our technical services, backed by the support of our design office, we are capable of:

  • Conversion
  • Modernisation
  • Adaptation

Of all types of wagons…











Construction



Custom made

Relying on our own design office for design and calculation, INVEHO UFO offers an appropriate response to all the requirements of its clients for the development and construction of wagons intended for rail freight.









Axles centre



At INVEHO UFF

INVEHO UFF is currently one of the only workshops in France which has an organisation dedicated to the maintenance and repair of axles. With trained and highly qualified personnel, associated with ultra-modern facilities, INVEHO UFF is capable of processing more than 9,000 axles per year for repair and maintenance operations, in accordance with the most widespread maintenance rules in Europe:

- Disassembly / Dismantling
- Re-profiling wheels
- Checks by ultrasound and magnetoscopy
- Checks on bearings
- Shot blasting / painting
- Reassembly
- Storage and management of stock for the client (storage capacity of 5,000 axles)




INVEHO UFF is therefore a service-provider of choice, known and recognised in the processing of axles.