Pantograph Contact strips

Leading manufactuer of carbon strips for pantograph rail systems

Mersen offers a large range of pantograph strips for electrical current collection, or collector strips. 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 copper-impregnated)
• 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