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United Wagon Company and Tatravagonka launch freight car casting production plant
07.11.2013United Wagon Company and Tatravagonka a.s., the largest manufacturer of freight cars in Europe, have launched a JV Railway Casted Components a.s. (RCC) to produce Barber bogie heavy castings for rolling stock designed for 1520 mm gauge.

United Wagon Company supplies the Acron Group with 400 hopper cars for transporting mineral fertilizers
28.10.2013Leasing company RAIL1520 (managed by United Wagon Company) and rail operator Acron-Trans (Acron Group) have signed a contract for delivery of 400 hopper cars for transporting mineral fertilizers equipped with innovative Barber bogies. Operating lease fleet term is 3 years.

UWC and Kamkor Wagon have signed an agreement for maintenance services for freight cars equipped with Barber bogies
18.10.2013United Wagon Company and Kamkor Wagon have signed an agreement for maintenance services for new generation freight cars equipped with Barber bogie in Kazakhstan.

United Wagon Company joins the Association of American Railroads
15.10.2013United Wagon Company (UWC) has joined the Association of American Railroads (AAR).

SUEK concluded a contract with Tikhvinsky Carriage Works (TCW) on delivery of 6000 innovative BARBER S-2-R bogie carriages
11.10.2013The carriages have increased load capacity (75 tons) and special tariff. The design of BARBER S-2-R bogie features technologies, which allowed to produce the undercarriage of rail cars with safety, functional reliability and life cycle cost indices having no analogs on the RF and CIS territory. Carriages of other manufacturers have no tariff allowance at analogous operating parameters.