Project: Culvert Construction along Tabora-Kigoma Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), Tanzania
Supplier: Pansol Heavy Industry – Steel Plate Production Base
Delivery Date: September 3, 2026
Product: Standardized Export-Version Flat Steel Formwork
Application: Concrete Pouring for Railway Culverts
Project Background & Requirements
As a key transportation trunk in western Tanzania and a priority connectivity infrastructure project in East Africa, the Tabora-Kigoma SGR involves a large number of scattered culvert structures, featuring dispersed construction sites, tight schedules and strict cost control. The project owner set three core requirements for formwork products: high turnover efficiency for cross-site reuse, high forming accuracy to ensure culvert structural quality, and optimal comprehensive cost to meet the project’s budget control targets.
After multiple rounds of technical comparison and supplier selection, the project owner finally chose Pansol export-grade standardized flat steel formwork as the core formwork solution for culvert construction.
Pansol Formwork Solution
The flat steel formwork supplied for the Tabora-Kigoma SGR Project is Pansol’s flagship standardized product designed for overseas infrastructure scenarios, fully matching the working conditions and construction requirements of culvert works:
- High turnover for remarkable cost reduction The formwork adopts thickened steel plates and reinforced rib structure. Under proper operation and standardized maintenance, it can achieve approximately 100 turnover cycles, with reusability far above the industry average. This greatly reduces single-use cost, highlights outstanding cost-effectiveness, and adapts to the demand of long-distance, multi-site projects.
- High-precision robotic welding for excellent forming quality Produced with automated robotic welding technology, the formwork panels feature high flatness and strictly controlled splicing gaps, preventing displacement and slurry leakage during construction. The cast concrete surface is smooth and aesthetic, eliminating the need for secondary plastering, which saves subsequent material and labor costs and effectively accelerates construction progress.
- Standardized design for strong scenario adaptability Uniformly sized flat steel formwork can be flexibly combined and assembled to fit culvert sections of different dimensions, with easy and efficient assembly and disassembly. This effectively improves on-site construction organization efficiency and reduces on-site management difficulty.
Project Performance
This batch of formwork has been put into use at the Tabora-Kigoma railway culvert construction sites successively, and its stable performance and user-friendly operation have been highly recognized by the project owner. The high turnover feature effectively reduces the overall procurement volume of formwork for the project, and the secondary-plastering-free forming effect shortens the duration of subsequent processes, providing strong support for overall project schedule control and cost optimization.
As the global foreign trade brand of Panshi Heavy Industry, Pansol has been serving overseas infrastructure markets with cost-effective engineering formwork products. The implementation of the Tabora-Kigoma SGR Project once again verifies the adaptability and competitiveness of Pansol flat steel formwork in overseas infrastructure scenarios, and provides a replicable formwork application model for similar railway culvert projects in Africa.
