Westinghouse AIR Brake Technologies Corp. WAB

What this company does

Wabtec is a global provider of value-added, technology-based locomotives, equipment, systems and services for the freight rail and passenger transit industries, and the mining, marine, and industrial markets and applications. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation, doing business as Wabtec Corporation, is a Delaware corporation with headquarters at 30 Isabella Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Wabtec has approximately 31,000 employees, excluding contingent workers, and operations in over 50 countries. It provides its products and services through two principal business segments, the Freight Segment and the Transit Segment. The Freight Segment primarily manufactures new and modernized locomotives, provides aftermarket parts and services to existing locomotives, and provides components to new and existing freight cars, and it accounted for approximately 72% of Wabtec's total net sales in 2025. The Transit Segment primarily manufactures and services components for new and existing passenger transit vehicles, such as regional trains, high speed trains, subway cars, light-rail vehicles and buses, and it accounted for approximately 28% of total net sales in 2025. George Westinghouse founded the original Westinghouse Air Brake Co. in 1869, and the company went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1995.

Written from the business description in WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORP's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 13 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.