VAE Nortrak North America, Inc.

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VAE Nortrak is a manufacturer of railroad track components. It started in October 1981 as Nortrak Railway Supply Ltd., an industrial supplier of new and used railroad track components. In November 1983, the company began manufacturing trackwork in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. In 1990, Voest-Alpine Eisenbahnsysteme of Austria, which had been in the trackwork manufacturing business for over 140 years, formed a joint venture with Nortrak Ltd. and the company became known as VAE Nortrak Ltd.

A second plant in Birmingham, Alabama was completed in 1992, and a third operation in Cheyenne, Wyoming was established in 1995. In January 2004, VAE Nortrak North America Inc., acquired the assets of its competitor, Meridian Rail Track Products Corp. with operations at Pueblo, Colorado, Newton, Kansas, and Chicago Heights, Illinois. In November 2004, Nortrak acquired the assets of Rail Products and Fabrications including a trackwork plant and a manganese foundry in Seattle, Washington.

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