Major Railroad Buys $15M Worth of Plastic Railroad Ties
By Jonathan Bardelline
Published February 16, 2011
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Tags: Recycled Products, Resource Efficiency
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ — One of the eight large railroads that operate in the United States will buy $15 million worth of recycled plastic railroad ties from Axion International.
Axion, which makes composite building products and railroad ties from recycled plastic, has also built plastic bridges for the U.S. Army.
The railroad involved in the deal isn’t disclosing it’s name, but it’s one of the eight Class 1 railroads that have tracks in the U.S.