Monorail Palm Jumeirah Dubai UAE is a 5.4-kilometre-long monorail connecting Atlantis Hotel Gateway Towers,located on Palm Jumeirah island in Dubai. Monorail connects Palm Jumeirah to mainland, with a planned further extension Dubai Metro. The line opened on 30 April 2009 is the first monorail in the Middle East.
Construction of passenger monorail system was done by Marubeni Corporation, with Hitachi, Ltd., Obayashi Corporation and other parties, Marubeni, sole main contractor, constructed a straddle-beam monorail system 5.4 kilometers long with four stations. This system consisting of four trains each with three cars, Obayashi and Oriental were responsible for civil engineering and construction, while Tonichi Engineering Consultants, Inc. and Tostems, Inc. l provide design supervision works.
The Palm Jumeirah a artificial island group created using land reclamation part of three planned islands called the Palm Islands (Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali and Palm Deira) which extended into the Persian Gulf, increasing Dubai's shoreline by a total of 520 kilometres. The Palm Jumeirah is the smallest and the original of three Palm Islands located on the Jumeirah coastal area of the emirate of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
Pretread.com’s roll was involved in design, manufacturing and testing of elastomeric bearings used in Palm Jumeirah monorail. Laminated Elastomeric bearings used for elevated viaducts and stations and acoustic bearing pads were developed by pretread.com and all of Elastomeric Bearings used Palm Jumeirah monorail was supplied by Pretread.com, where our in-house facility was used by Obayashi for testing of bearings, its functionality and its accessories including bearing palm jumeriah bearings monorail neoprene
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