L.B. Foster to Supply Rail, Trackwork Products for V&M Star Pipe Mill
01/18/2012 - L.B. Foster Co. has begun delivery of $3.4 million of rail and trackwork products to rail contractor Wintrow Construction for the construction of 8.5 miles of track and other track materials at the new Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes (V&M) Star Steel pipe mill in Youngstown, Ohio.
L.B. Foster Co. has begun delivery of $3.4 million of rail and trackwork products to rail contractor Wintrow Construction of Barberton, Ohio, for the construction of 8.5 miles of track and other track materials at the new Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes (V&M) Star Steel pipe mill in Youngstown, Ohio.
L.B. Foster has teamed with key strategic partners to meet the product requirements for track construction at this facility. The new 115# continuous welded rail (CWR) is produced by Steel Dynamics, Inc. (SDI) in its Columbia City, Ind., facility. SDI welded 240-ft rail sections into 1600-ft strings and loaded them onto a special L.B. Foster work train for delivery to the Ohio project site.
L.B. Foster is managing the logistics required to provide just-in-time delivery of the rail and trackwork materials to the jobsite.
The new rail, trackwork, and rail accessories supplied by L.B. Foster will provide mainline access and in-plant transportation for seamless steel pipe at the new Youngstown mill. V&M is building the facility to meet the growing demand for small-diameter oil country tubular goods (OCTG) due to the increase in drilling for natural gas in the nearby Marcellus Shale region.
Pittsburgh, PA-based L.B. Foster Co. is a leading manufacturer, fabricator, and distributor of products and services for the rail, construction, energy, and utility markets with locations in North America and Europe.
