Company
Charting a course for the future
Greenbrier Europe is led by an experienced Europe-based management. The leadership team has decades of experience in railcar markets throughout Eastern and Western Europe, as well as experience in emerging markets around the world. Greenbrier Europe offers manufacturing and service capability in Europe with greater scale and efficiency for current customers.
Greenbrier Europe includes all European operations of Wagony Świdnica and Astra Rail. Currently, Wagony Świdnica and Astra Rail each operate three locations performing new railcar manufacturing, engineering and repair services. Wagony’s sites are in Poland and Astra Rail’s are in Romania.
The Greenbrier Companies
Greenbrier Europe is a company of the Greenbrier Companies headquartered in the USA.
Seven high-performance facilities
In June 2017, The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (NYSE: GBX) and Astra Rail Management GmbH merged and began operating under the name Greenbrier Europe. It covers the activities of Greenbrier’s European operations headquartered in Świdnica, Poland and Arad, Romania. It is led by an experienced Europe-based management team from both companies. Greenbrier Europe offers high-end freight wagon manufacturing, innovative engineering, repairs and refurbishments and customer service.
Strategy
The management is focused on promoting the sustainable and long-term development of the Group in its evolution into a technologically and financially strong market leader in Europe’s rail industry. Long-term thinking takes precedence over short-term profit-driven considerations.
Sales markets
Greenbrier Europe’s key sales markets are mainly the countries of the European Union (EU).