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In 2025, it reported $11.167 billion in net sales and approximately 31,000 employees. [P97070055][P41333088][T10469827][P118562133]\n[P41333088][P110384552][P36533038][P97070055][T10469827][P118562133]", "updatedAt": "2026-09-28T11:24:08.957026Z" }, { "type": "PRODUCTS", "text": "Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (Wabtec) supplies locomotives and rail equipment for freight operations. Its equipment includes diesel-electric and liquefied-natural-gas locomotives, engines, electric motors and propulsion systems; its components include freight-car braking systems, compressors, turbochargers and cooling equipment. Its FLXdrive locomotive is battery-electric, with liquid-cooled batteries and regenerative braking that recharges the batteries during operation. [P108011610][P69491675][https://www.wabteccorp.com/locomotive/alternative-fuel-locomotives/FLXdrive]\n\nWabtec also provides railway electronics and software, including positive train control, event recorders, end-of-train devices, signaling, distributed-power control and tools for train, yard and network operations. Its Trip Optimizer system calculates a train’s speed profile using factors such as terrain, train makeup and speed restrictions, then controls throttle and dynamic braking. Freight services include locomotive rebuilding and modernization, maintenance and repairs, component exchange and long-term parts supply. [P41988653][P53002983][P51866307][https://www.wabteccorp.com/digital-intelligence/energy-management/trip-optimizer]\n\nFor passenger transit vehicles, Wabtec supplies braking equipment, brake discs and pads, heating and air-conditioning systems, access and platform-screen doors, pantographs, power converters, passenger-information systems and CCTV, alongside aftermarket maintenance and overhaul. Its Metroflexx brake-control system integrates service and emergency braking, wheel-slide protection, diagnostics and communication with a train’s control system. In 2024, Freight Services, Equipment, Components and Digital Intelligence accounted for approximately 33%, 20%, 11% and 8% of company sales, respectively; Transit original equipment and aftermarket accounted for approximately 13% and 16%. 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[P21312823][P118562133] Its principal facilities include sites in Erie, Pennsylvania; Fort Worth, Texas; Astana, Kazakhstan; Marhowrah, India; Contagem, Brazil; Shanghai, China; and Quebec City, Canada. [T8074844]\n\nWabtec attributes geographic sales by product-shipment destination. In 2025, U.S. sales were $5.37 billion, or about 48% of total net sales of $11.17 billion. North America as a whole accounted for $6.19 billion, or about 55%, while Europe accounted for $1.96 billion, or about 18%. Other reported markets included India ($699 million), South America ($513 million), Australia and New Zealand ($453 million), Kazakhstan and the CIS ($431 million), China ($297 million), and Africa ($326 million). 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In 1990, a successor company acquired certain Westinghouse Air Brake assets and operations from American Standard. It went public in 1995 and merged with MotivePower Industries in 1999, adopting the name Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation. [P39139751][P70702337]\n\nWabtec expanded through two major later transactions: it acquired majority ownership of French rail-equipment supplier Faiveley Transport in 2016 and completed the purchase of the remaining shares in 2017. In 2019, it completed its merger with GE Transportation, substantially expanding its freight-rail business. 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