United Wagon Company
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Native name
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Research and Production Corporation ”United Wagon Company”, PJSC |
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| Industry | Transport machine building |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
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Key people
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Roman Savushkin (CEO) |
| Products | freight cars |
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Number of employees
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10,000 (2016) |
| Website | uniwagon.com |
Research and Production Corporation “United Wagon Company” (‘”UWC”, Russian: ПАО «Научно-производственная корпорация «Объединенная Вагонная Компания») is one of the largest rail companies in Russia and the CIS.
UWC manages the rail holding company, which incorporates Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant, TikhvinChemMash, Springs production factory, Vostok1520 railway transport company, as well as RAIL1520 leasing company. UWC also oversees its own R&D Center.
The company is headquartered in Moscow.
UWC was established in May 2012 to manage the activity of Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant and RAIL1520, a leasing company.
Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant was officially launched in January 2012. TVSZ produced its 10,000th freight car in July 2014.
The freight car leasing company, RAIL1520, was established at the beginning of 2011. In January 2012, MRC 1520 was set up, a joint venture between RAIL1520 and the Japanese company Mitsui. At this point, RAIL1520 ranked among the top 10 largest leasing companies in Russia.
In September 2013, UWC and Wabtec Corporation (United States) signed a joint venture agreement. A few months earlier, a similar agreement was signed with Amsted Rail (USA). In November 2013, UWC and , a.s. (Slovakia) launched a joint venture for manufacturing railway castings in the city of Prakovce.
UWC began manufacturing cars on Barber S-2-R bogies at the Novokuznetsk Car Building Plant and Roslavl Car Repairing Plant in Russia, and the Mogilev Carriage Works in Belarus in February 2014.
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