MONTE LAKE, British Columbia — Vossloh North America’s Tie Technologies division has opened a new plant in Monte Lake to produced prestressed concrete ties for Canadian customers. The facility near Kamloops, B.C., uses an automated production system and can produced 100,000 to 350,000 concrete ties annually. It is directly served by a rail spur.
“Vossloh has entered into long-term contracts to supply concrete ties to Canada’s Class I railways,” Brett Urquhart, senior vice resident, Vossloh Tie Technologies, said in a press release. “Our Monte Lake plant is ideally located to provide a quality product with great logistic benefits to national, regional and industrial rail networks.”
Vossloh operates seven tie plants in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and four in Australia.
