Articles Tagged with ''railcar manufacturing''

ROCHELLE, IL—Nippon Sharyo USA has completed its rail car assembly plant here and will hire an additional 90 employees, bringing total employment at the facility to nearly 500.

PITTSBURGH—Siemens Rail Automation will expand its manufacturing and engineering operations here, in a move that will bring an additional 129 jobs.

ATLANTA—Trinity Industries Inc. will begin making railcars at its new assembly plant here.

SOREL-TRACY, Canada—Alstom has started building bogies for subway cars at a new assembly plant here.

WESTMINSTER, MD—Knorr Brake Corp., a manufacturer of braking systems for railcars, has installed an 865-kilowatt solar array on the roof of its assembly plant here. The system is expected to provide up to 60 percent of the plant’s energy requirements.

ROCHELLE, IL—Nippon Sharyo’s passenger railcar assembly plant here will undergo a $54 million expansion, creating about 80 permanent local jobs.

CHEROKEE, AL—FreightCar America Inc. has subleased approximately 25 percent of Navistar’s assembly plant here to build various types of railcars. FreightCar expects to invest $23 million to equip the facility, which will have the capacity to build more than 7,000 railcars per year.

MONTREAL—Bombardier is bracing for what could be a lengthy strike at its Quebec railcar assembly plant after workers rejected what the company characterized as a generous offer that raises wages and pension benefits and contained a commitment to invest in new technology.

ROCHELLE, IL—Nippon Sharyo has opened a new $50 million railcar assembly plant here. The plant will employ 250 by next year.

WARRENDALE, PA—Mitsubishi Electric Power Products Inc. has opened a 50,900-square-foot assembly plant here that will produce HVAC systems for the railroad industry.