L.B. Foster Company provides engineered and manufactured products and services for building and supporting infrastructure in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates in two segments: Rail, Technologies, and Services; and Infrastructure Solutions.
The Rail, Technologies, and Services segment offers new rail to passenger and short line freight railroads, industrial companies, and rail contractors, as well as used rails. It also provides rail accessories, such as track spikes, bolts, angle bars, tie plates, and other products; insulated rail joints and related accessories; fixation fasteners, coverboards, and special accessories; and trackwork products. This segment also provides engineered concrete railroad ties, friction management products and application systems, railroad condition monitoring systems and equipment, including wheel impact load detection systems, wayside data collection and management systems, and rockfall, flood, earthworks, and bridge strike monitoring; and aftermarket services.
The Infrastructure Solutions segment manufactures precast concrete products for use as restrooms, concession stands, and protective storage buildings under the CXT brand for national, state, and municipal parks. It also manufactures sound walls, bridge beams, box culverts, septic tanks, and other custom pre-stressed and precast concrete products. This segment provides steel bridge products; corrosion protection solutions; cuts, threads, and paints pipes; threading services for oil and gas production; and protective pipeline coating services.
L.B. Foster Company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
