Wabtec

Wabtec
Wabtec Corporation
Type Public
Traded as NYSEWAB
Industry Rail industry
Founded 1999 via merger
Headquarters Wilmerding, Pennsylvania[1], USA
Number of locations Various : USA, Europe, Canada, Mexico, Australia, South America. ~50 plants[1]
Key people Albert J. Neupaver, President and Chief Executive Officer
Alvaro Garcia-Tunon, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer[1]
Products Rail braking systems, locomotives, air condition and heat exchanging systems, other rolling stock components[1]
Services Locomotive servicing, overhaul and repair[1]
Net income Sales[note 1]
2007: 1360 million $[2]
2006: 1087 million $[3]
2005: 1034 million $[3]
2004: 822 million $[3]
2003: 717 million $[3]
2002: 696 million $[3]
Operations:[note 1]
2007: 180 million $[2]
2006: 129 million $[3]
2005: 101 million $[3]
2004: 55 million $[3]
2003: 49 million $[3]
2002: 46 million $[3]
Employees 5000[1]
Divisions Motive Power Inc.
Website www.wabtec.com

Wabtec Corporation (derived from Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation) is an American company formed by the merger of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) and MotivePower Industries Corporation in 1999.

Wabtec manufactures products for locomotives, freight cars and passenger transit vehicles, and builds new locomotives up to 4,000 horsepower (3 MW).

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History

The companies' origins go back as far as 1869 with the foundation of the Westinghouse Brake Company; this company (also known as WA&B later as WABCO) became independent in 1990 via a management buy out and went public in 1995[4]. Another company: WABCO Vehicle Control Systems also created from the Westinghouse Brake Company is independent of Wabtec and was spun off by American Standard (the ultimate owner) in 2007.

The other company forming Wabtec, MotivePower Industries, can be traced back to 1972 with the formation of a Rail Systems Group by the Morrison Knudsen group; and the purchase of a manufacturing facility in Boise. In 1994 Morrison Knudsen created a subsidiary MK Rail Corporation; during the first half of the same decade the MK Rail group expanded with the acquisition of various other locomotive component companies. In 1996 MK Rail group is separated from the parent Morrison Knudsen and adopted the name MotivePower Industries Corporation. In the later half of the 1990s further companies were acquired - again all in the locomotive components business.[5]

In July 2010, Wabtec announced that it had purchased two manufacturers of rail equipment, Bach-Simpson Corp. and G&B Specialties. The companies produce locomotive components and track products respectively. The purchase price was reportedly US$48 million.[6]

In November 2010, Wabtec acquired all of the assets of Cleveland, Ohio, based manufacturer of traction motors and electric coils for rail and power generation markets Swiger Coil Systems.[7] On 28 February 2011, Wabtec announced that it had acquired Brush Traction, an English locomotive builder and maintainer, for US$31 million.[8]

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Notes

  1. ^ a b Figures rounded down to nearest 1 million

References

See also

  • List of low emissions locomotives

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