The INNOVA standard A category buffer (code IST-01.00.00), developed by INNOVA Systems & Technologies and manufactured by AZOMA, provides a storage capacity of mechanical work of min. 30 kJ, in dynamic regime.

INNOVA’s A category buffer is fully compliant with all conditions set forward for A category buffers, as per UIC leaflets 526-1 ed. 3/2008, 573 ed. 7/2007, and EN15551:2009.

The buffer is executed in a welded construction, with a removable plate.
Its standard variant includes a plate of steel type S355J2+N EN10025-2:2004, 450 mm in length. Upon request, the following extras are available:
- additional manganese steel wearing plate;
- extra long buffer plate, 550 mm.
The INNOVA A category buffers min. 30 kJ are typically equipped with A cat. thermoplastic shock absorbers (i.e. MINER TecsPak), or butyl shock absorbers (i.e. Spencer Moulton).

Upon beneficiary’s request, we can accommodate any other type of shock absorber within the buffer, providing its maximum pre-compressed length does not exceed 560 mm, and its diameter does not exceed 197 mm.

Compliant with:

- UIC leaflets: 526-1 ed. 3/2008, 573 ed. 7/2007

- EN15551:2009.

Homologated with: AFER (Romanian Railways Authority), 2009.

Certifications: The buffer has undergone certifications as constitutive element of interoperability (ECI) and has received the type examination certificate from Bureau Veritas as Notified Body. The certification is based on modules B and D of the annex to the Commission Decision 2006/861/EC of 28 July 2006 concerning the technical specification of interoperability relating to the subsystem rolling stock – freight wagons of the trans-European conventional rail system. The buffers are delivered with a certificate of conformity as constitutive element of interoperability.