Products

Pantograph strips

Mersen: leading manufacturer of pantograph carbon strips

Mersen offers a large range of pantograph strips for electrical current collection, or collector strip.

The high speed train that hit the world rail speed record on April 3rd 2007, reaching 574,8 km/h, was actually equipped with Mersen’s pantograph carbon strip.

Characteristics

  • Lead-free carbon material (pure or impregnated with metal - copper or bronze) 
  • Extrusion or stamped and machined
  • Welded,  bonded or crimped
  • Fault detector if necessary
  • Mechanically robust
  • Lubricating power
  • Sheaths in aluminum, copper, tinned steel or tinned copper
  • Kasperowski Design

Applications

  • Locomotives
  • High speed trains
  • Electric rail car
  • Tramways
  • Urban trains