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As part of its platform screen door project development, Portalp's Railway Business Unit has designed its own control system for operating its doors.

The Portalp Railway team has begun installing the platform screen doors on lines 16 and 17 of the Paris metro! The work starts with coring the platforms of the future Saint-Denis-Pleyel terminus station. This first stage is essential for the installation of the platform screen doors, as it involves drilling through the concrete of the platform nosings at the points where the posts will be fixed.

This prototype, designed and assembled in the region of Grenoble, in France, was presented to our customer, Société du Grand Paris, in the presence of the agency’s designer Patrick Jouin. The latter had validated the aesthetic aspect of the platform screen doors on the model presented in October 2022. The latter had validated the aesthetic aspect of the platform screen doors on the model presented in October 2022. The validation of the various design criteria, which will now be part of...

Portalp, a French automatic door manufacturer with over 60 years' experience, has been awarded the contract for designing, fabricating, and installing platform screens for the Toulouse metro's CLB extension, which will link the current terminus of Ramonville with the Labège business park by 2027. This extension will contribute to supplementing the Toulouse metro system.

ENGIE Solutions (contractor) and Portalp have been selected by the RATP and the Société du Grand Paris (SGP) for the project extending line 14, and the construction of lines 16 and 17 of the Grand Paris Express, respectively.

In the wake of lines 14, 16, and 17, the consortium consisting of Portalp and Ineo UTS, an EQUANS France subsidiary, has been selected by the Société du Grand Paris to outfit and secure the upcoming line 18's platforms. The planning phase for this project will begin in the coming days, followed by progressive commissioning as of 2026. This contract represents a budget of 25 million euros for the consortium.

The Wiener Linien transport authority has awarded EQUANS and Portalp the contract to continue modernizing Vienna's metro system. The U5, Vienna's sixth metro line and first automated line, will begin operations by 2023. This French consortium is tasked with supplying, installing, and maintaining the new line's platform screen doors.