Swidnica to sell more train cars thanks to its US investor

Greenbrier purchased a 60% stake in Wagon Swidnica from NFI No.3. and initially planned to invest $8 million in the firm. It has already invested $15 million. In 1997 Swidnica sold 29 wagons, while in 1998 it sold as many as 400. This year's sales are estimated at 900-1,000 units, with more than half of production to be exported via the Greenbrier distribution network. In Poland, wagons and cistern cars were purchased by Petrochemia Plock and Dyrekcja Eksploatacji Cystern (DEC). The U.S. investor plans to produce different types of rolling stock in the Swidnica plant, and wants to open a "Center of Wagon Engineering" to implement Greenbrier's technologies and solutions. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 28)