Rail Products and Services
L.B. Foster Company’s Rail Products and Services (“Rail”)
segment is comprised of several manufacturing and distribution businesses that
provide a variety of products and services for freight and passenger railroads
and industrial companies throughout the world. The Rail segment has sales offices
throughout the Americas and Europe, and frequently bids on rail projects where
it offers products manufactured by the Company, or sourced from numerous supply
chain partners, and aftermarket services. The Rail segment is comprised of the
following business units: Rail Products, Rail Technologies, and CXT Concrete
Ties.
Rail Products
The Rail Products business is comprised of the Company’s Rail Distribution,
Allegheny Rail, Transit, and Trackwork divisions.
Rail Distribution sells new rail mainly to passenger and shortline freight railroads,
industrial companies, and rail contractors for the replacement of existing lines
or expansion of new lines. Rail accessories sold by the Rail Distribution division
include track spikes, bolts, angle bars, and other products required to install
or maintain rail lines. These products are manufactured by the Company or purchased
from other manufacturers and distributed accordingly.
The Company’s Allegheny Rail Products (“ARP”) division engineers
and fabricates insulated rail joints and related accessories for freight and
passenger railroads and industrial customers. Insulated joints are manufactured
at the Company’s facilities in Pueblo, CO and Niles, OH.
The Company’s Transit Products division supplies power rail, direct fixation
fasteners, coverboards, and special accessories primarily for passenger railroad
systems. These products are fabricated at Company facilities or by subcontractors
and are usually sold by sealed bid to passenger railroads or to rail contractors.
Construction Products
The Construction products segment is composed of the following product groups:
Piling Products, Fabricated Bridge Products, and Precast Concrete Products.
Piling Products
Sheet piling products are interlocking structural steel sections that are generally
used to provide lateral support at construction sites. Bearing piling products
are steel H-beam sections which are driven into the ground for support of structures
such as bridge piers and high-rise buildings. Piling is often used in water
and land applications including cellular cofferdams and OPEN CELL® structures
in inland river systems and ports.
Piling products are sourced from various manufacturers and either sold or rented
to project owners and contractors. The piling division, via a sales force deployed
throughout the United States, markets and sells piling domestically and internationally.
This division offers its customers various types and dimensions of structural
beam piling, sheet piling, and pipe piling. The Company is the primary distributor
of domestic steel sheet piling for its primary supplier.
Fabricated Bridge Products
The fabricated products facility in Bedford, PA manufactures a number of fabricated
steel and aluminum products primarily for the highway, bridge, and transit industries
including concrete reinforced steel grid deck, open steel grid deck, aluminum
bridge railing, and stay-in-place steel bridge forms.
Precast Concrete Products
The precast concrete products unit primarily manufactures concrete buildings
for national, state, and municipal parks. This unit manufactures restrooms,
concession stands, and other protective storage buildings available in multiple
designs, textures, and colors. The Company is a leading high-end supplier in
terms of volume, product options, and capabilities. The unit also manufactures
various other precast products such as burial vaults, bridge beams, box culverts,
septic tanks, and other custom pre-stressed and precast concrete products. The
products are manufactured in Spokane, WA, Hillsboro, TX, and Waverly, WV.
Tubular and Energy Services
The Tubular and Energy Services segment has four primary product or service
groups: Protective Coatings, Threaded Products, precision measurement systems
and upstream test and inspection services. The segment provides products and
services predominantly to the mid and upstream oil and gas markets.
Protective Coatings
There are two pipeline service locations that make up the Protective Coatings
business unit. The Birmingham, AL facility coats the outside diameter and, to
a lesser extent, the inside diameter of pipe primarily for oil & gas transmission
pipelines. This location partners with its primary customer, a pipe manufacturer,
to market fusion bonded epoxy coatings, abrasion resistant coatings, and internal
linings for a wide variety of pipe diameters for pipeline projects throughout
North America. The second location is in Willis, TX. The Willis facility applies
specialty outside and inside diameter coatings for a wide variety of pipe diameters
for oil & gas transmission, mining, and waste water pipelines. This location
also provides custom coatings for specialty fittings and field service connections.
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