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SUPPLIER NEWS Ansaldo STS expanded into southern Africa with the establishment of two new companies in South Africa and Botswana: Ansaldo STS Southern Africa (Pry) Ltd. and the South African joint venture company Ansaldo STS-InfraDEV South Africa (Pty) Ltd. Duos Technologies, Inc., was awarded a contract valued in excess of $1 million to expand its existing intelligent video and security-sensor system along a segment of the Amtrak and CSX Transportation system running through downtown Washington, D.C. Miyamoto International Structural & Earthquake Engineers opened an office in Vancouver, Wash. Bentley Systems, Inc., is carrying out a strategic initiative to deliver Bridge Information Modeling technology for the entire bridge lifecycle. A new business unit, Bentley BriM, will drive the initiative and will provide broad access to newly-acquired advanced bridge products in Bentley’s software portfolio. Bombardier Transportation Rail Control Solutions launched the Bombardier EDI Track 400 jointless coded track circuit at the recent Infrarail exhibition in Birmingham, U.K. EMCOR Group Inc.’s Welsbach Electric Corp. subsidiary was awarded a contract to provide electrical and civil/structural construction services for Metropolitan Transit Authority New York City Transit’s rehabilitation of its Dyckman and 73rd Street substations. Nordco, Inc., acquired Central Power Products, Inc., the manufacturer of the Shuttlewagon Railcar Mover. Nordco also has introduced the first in a series of spare parts packages for its railway maintenance-of-way machines to help ensure that customers have key components available for machine maintenance and repair operation. In addition, Nordco introduced a new Website with the same address as its original site, www.nordco.com. Iowa Northern Railway has placed into revenue service a RailComm, Inc., computerized Track Warrant Control System. Also, Lake State Railway Co. in Saginaw, Mich., is incorporating RailComm’s Track Warrant Control functionality into its existing Domain Operations Controller (DOC®) System. Spadina Link Project Managers, a joint venture of Hatch Mott MacDonald, Delcan and and MMM Group, was awarded a seven-year project management services contract for the Spadina Subway Extension by the Toronto Transit Commission. Cambridge Systematics, Inc., and Lloyd’s Register Group plan to introduce the KBAI™ risk-based asset management technology to the U.S. transportation industry. Holland LPacquired Caterpillar Inc. acquired Lovat Inc., a manufacturer of tunnel-boring machines used in construction, metro, railway, road, sewer, water main, penstock, mine access, high-voltage cable and telecommunications tunnels. BNSF has standardized on the Earthmate GPS PN-020 from DeLorme as the GPS receiver of choice in support of track maintenance crews throughout its system. the assets and business of Industrial Metrics, Inc., of North Vancouver, B.C., Canada, including the Rangecam Track and Wheel Maintenance and Engineering software. Stella-Jones Inc. Koppers, Inc., a subsidiary of Koppers Holdings Inc., will be providing approximately 360,000 railroad crossties for new tracks being installed for mining operations in West Africa. The total order, which began shipping in late March, includes switch ties and bridge lumber and is valued at approximately $20 million. has completed the acquisition of the Burke-Parsons-Bowlby Corp., a producer of treated wood products primarily for the railroad industry, including all five of BPB’s treating plants located in DuBois, Pa.; Goshen, Va.; Spencer, W.Va.; and Stanton and Fulton, Ken. VAE Nortrak North America, acquired a majority ownership in DAMY Cambios de Via, S.A. de C.V., a manufacturer of specialty trackwork based in Guadalajara, Mexico. www.rtands.com Railway Track & Structures May 2008 7 http://www.ansaldo-sts.com http://www.duostech.com http://www.miyamotointernational.com http://www.miyamotointernational.com http://www.nordoc.com http://www.emcorgroup.com http://www.bentley.com/brim http://www.nordco.com http://www.bombardier.com http://hatchmott.com http://hatchmott.com http://hatchmott.com http://www.bombardier.com http://www.railcomm.com http://www.camsys.com.com http://www.hollandco.com http://www.camsys.com.com http://www.stella-jones.com http://www.cat.com http://www.koppers.com http://www.nortrak.com http://www.xmap.com http://www.rtands.com

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