Wabtec Corporation recently announced it has completed its merger with GE Transportation, a former business unit of GE . This merger establishes Wabtec as a Fortune 500, global transportation and logistics leader by combining Wabtec's broad range of freight, transit and electronics products with GE Transportation's best-in-class equipment, services and digital solutions in the locomotive, mining, marine, stationary power and drilling industries. Wabtec has also been notified that it will now be included in the S&P 500 Index.

Raymond T. Betler, Wabtec's president and CEO, said: "We are very excited to complete the merger of our two companies. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring together nearly four centuries of collective experience to create a technologically advanced leader with a highly complementary set of capabilities to move and improve the world. Our teams have made significant progress in integration planning, and this process has only strengthened our confidence in the value creation potential of the combination. Today, we are a stronger, more diversified company ready to better serve customers across the globe and capitalize on new growth opportunities at an attractive point in the cycle." The combined company, which is expected to have revenues of more than $8 billion in 2019, has a compelling growth profile, especially as market conditions improve in the industries it serves. -PR

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