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Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation

WABRailroad Equipment ManufacturingPittsburgh, United States

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (WAB) delivers a comprehensive suite of advanced technological solutions, equipment, and services tailored for the global freight railway and urban mass transit sectors. Its operations are bifurcated into two principal divisions: Freight and Transit. The Freight segment develops, produces, and maintains critical components for both newly manufactured and operational freight carriages and locomotives. This includes constructing brand-new commuter-focused locomotives, undertaking comprehensive rebuilding of freight locomotives, and delivering sophisticated railway electronic systems, positive train control (PTC) technology, signal design expertise, and related engineering provisions. This segment also furnishes essential heat exchange and cooling apparatus. Its clientele encompasses major publicly listed railway operators, equipment leasing firms, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of locomotives and freight cars, and various utility companies. The Transit segment is responsible for the production and upkeep of components utilized in both new and existing passenger conveyance systems, including regional and high-speed trains, subway cars, light-rail vehicles, and buses. This division also renovates subway cars and supplies HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) systems, alongside doors for both buses and subways. This division caters to public transit agencies, municipal governments, leasing corporations, and manufacturers specializing in subway cars and buses. Beyond these core offerings, the company's extensive product portfolio further includes advanced electronically controlled pneumatic braking systems, various railway electronic devices, robust freight car undercarriages, crucial draft gears, couplers, and slack adjusters, as well as air compression and drying units. They also offer diverse heat exchange and cooling solutions, track and switch apparatus, and comprehensive railway braking components. WAB manufactures new switcher locomotives, friction products, and provides extensive overhaul, modernization, and refurbishment services for both transit and freight locomotives and cars. Additionally, their offerings extend to platform screen doors, pantographs, window assemblies, specialized couplers, accessibility lifts and ramps for public transport vehicles, and traction motors. Established in 1869, the company maintains its corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation is a railroad equipment manufacturing company headquartered in Pittsburgh, United States. It is publicly listed (WAB) with a market capitalisation of $48.5B. Xcout tracks 26 named people at Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation, including Rafael O. Santana (Chairman & CEO).

Industry
Railroad Equipment Manufacturing
Headquarters
Pittsburgh, United States
Market cap
$48.5B
Employees
29,500
Ticker
WAB

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation leadership

  • Rafael O. SantanaChairman & CEO
  • Rafael SantanaChairman and Chief Executive Officer, Wabtec Corporation
  • Pascal SchweitzerPresident of Transit
  • John A. OlinExecutive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
  • Eric GebhardtExecutive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
  • Nicole TheophilusExecutive Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer

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曙ブレーキ工業7238 · Automotive Components ManufacturingTokyo, Japan
66% matchPublic

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. is a global leader in the research, development, manufacturing, and distribution of braking systems and associated components. Its operations span across Japan, North America, Europe, and various other Asian countries. For the automotive sector, the company provides a comprehensive range of products, including disc brake calipers, pads, and rotors, as well as drum brake linings, shoes, wheel cylinders, and integrated drum-in-hat brake assemblies, along with sensors. Motorcycle applications feature disc brake calipers, pads, and master cylinders. Beyond road vehicles, Akebono also supplies braking solutions for rolling stock, such as disc brakes and linings for high-speed bullet trains, conventional trains, and monorails, alongside brake shoes for general railroad stock. The company further extends its expertise to industrial machinery, offering drum brakes for forklifts, clutch facings for car air conditioners, elevator brake shoes, and robust disc brakes for wind turbine generators and rough terrain cranes. Additionally, Akebono develops a diverse portfolio of sensor technologies, encompassing accelerometers, angular rate sensors, sensor clusters, devices for vehicle behavior detection and wireless vibration measurement, inclinometers, and seismic detectors for long-wave motors. Established in 1929 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, the company was formerly known as Akebono Sekimen Kogyo Co., Ltd., adopting its present name in 1960.

Market cap$189.2M
Employees5,096
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