https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/wabtec-to-close-wilmerding-pa-plant/
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I know Wabtec makes trains but what specifically does the Wilmerding plant make.
WILMERDING, Pa. — Wabtec Corp. will close its plant in Wilmerding in 2024, with layoffs beginning in February or March, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
The plant is expected to close by July 1. The website Tube City Almanac reports the 13.1-acre facility was sold earlier this month to Wilmerding Warehouse LLC of Zelienople, Pa., for $1.3 million. The plant covers some 365,000 square feet, but only a small portion was still in use.
The planned shutdown, which will result in the layoff of 94 workers, became public Sunday after the company filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN notice, with Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor and Industry. The WARN act requires employers to provide at least a 60-day notice in advance of plant closing or layoffs of large numbers of workers.
The facility is the historic home of Westinghouse Air Brake, which became Wabco and later Wabtec. The company, founded in 1869, moved to Wilmerding in 1889, and by 1905 employed 3,000 workers.