10 Facts About Wabtec

Wabtec Corporation is an American company formed by the merger of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company and MotivePower Industries Corporation in 1999.

In July 2010, Wabtec announced the plan to purchase two manufacturers of rail equipment, Bach-Simpson Corp.

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 for approximately $43.

On 4 January 2022, it was announced that Wabtec had acquired the New Delhi-based railway friction business, Masu, for 34 million USD.

Wabtec bought Brush Traction of Loughborough, an English locomotive builder and maintainer, for US$31 million on 25 February 2011.

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In November 2011, Wabtec acquired Bearward Engineering, an industrial radiator manufacturer employing some 300 people based in Northampton, England.

Wabtec Rail Limited is a railway engineering company based in at the Doncaster Works in Doncaster, England.

Wabtec Rail occupies part of the former British Rail Engineering Limited site known locally as the Plant Works.

In September 2021, at an event in Pittsburgh, Wabtec unveiled the world's first battery-electric freight locomotive.

Wabtec claimed that the next version of the locomotive, to be developed within two years, would reduce the consumption of diesel fuel by nearly a third, and that emissions could entirely eliminated through the development of accompanying hydrogen fuel cells.