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L.B. Foster Company
L.B. Foster Company
08/14/2012 | Press release
L.B. Foster Provides 11,000 CXT Concrete Ties for Tesoro Refinery
distributed by noodls on 08/14/2012 14:39
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 14, 2012/PRNewswire/ -- L.B. Foster Company (NASDAQ: FSTR) announced that it has been awarded a contract by RailWorks Track Systems, Inc. to supply 11,000 of its CXT® Concrete Ties for the construction of an unloading facility at the Tesoro oil products refinery in Anacortes, Washington.
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The Tesoro Corporation refinery is at the western end of an ambitious railway transport system that will include 800 tank cars carrying 40,000 barrels of crude oil each day from Tesoro's Bakken Shaleoperations in North Dakota. The concrete ties will support a high-capacity rail unloading system capable of accommodating four 110-car trains simultaneously.
"L.B. Foster has a long-standing and successful relationship with the Tesoro project's contractor, RailWorks. The Chehalis, Washingtontrack construction company has installed CXT ties on many high profile transit, mainline and industrial systems to minimize life cycle expenses and assure high performance," said Mark Hammons, L.B. Foster National Sales Manager for CXT Concrete Ties.
The industrial ties are being manufactured with the rail industry's most advanced concrete tie manufacturing technology at L.B. Foster's Spokane, Washingtonfacility. L.B. Foster operates two ISO 9001:2008 Certified concrete rail tie manufacturing facilities that are strategically located to supply projects throughout North Americawith concrete ties for all rail applications. CXT Concrete Ties began shipping to the jobsite from the Washington Statetie plant by truck in May 2012. The final delivery is scheduled to be completed before the end of 2012.
About L.B. Foster Company
L.B. Foster Company is a leading manufacturer, fabricator
and distributor of products and services for the rail,
construction, energy and utility markets with locations in
North Americaand Europe. Please visit
our Website: www.lbfoster.com
CXT® is a Registered Trademark of L.B. Foster Company.
L.B. Foster Company Sales and Media Contacts:
Mark Hammons, National Sales Manager, L.B.
Foster CXT® Concrete Ties
509.921.8726 mhammons@lbfoster.com
Jake Fuellhart, Marketing Communications
Manager, L.B. Foster Corporate Marketing
412.928.5645 jfuellhart@lbfoster.com
SOURCE L.B. Foster Company
