Warwick Kinscher Discusses How Vossloh Cogifer Has Stayed on Track in the Rail Manufacturing Industry; Warwick Kinscher Talks to Supply Chain Digital About His Company Vossloh Cogifer Australia
In an interview with Supply Chain Digital, Warwick Kinscher, General Manager of Vossloh Cogifer Australia, reveals the history behind his company as well as how they stay on track in the rail manufacturing industry.
SAN DIEGO, CA, October 29, 2010
In an interview with Supply Chain Digital, Warwick Kinscher, General Manager of Vossloh Cogifer Australia, reveals the history behind his company as well as how they stay on track in the rail manufacturing industry."We make rail and we make the steel work components that actually do the switching and the crossing, and a couple of other pieces of rail will fit into it," explains Warwick Kinscher in the article. "We actually own the intellectual properties and work very closely with the bearer manufacturers, so at the customer's request we actually supply the whole kit."
The Company is now developing more of a customer focus, as their customer base has diversified in Australia over the last ten years. Fifteen years ago, Vossloh supplied to six or seven government authorities because the state governments ran the railroads in Australia. In fifteen years, that business has privatized, franchised, broken up and has been distributed.
"The railroads are now being run as private corporations," says Kinscher. "Even if they're publicly owned, they're a semi-non government organization operating on very much a commercial basis."
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About Vossloh Cogifer Australia
In 1883, the Vossloh legacy began with Eduard Vossloh who submitted a bid to the Royal Prussian Railway for the manufacture of spring washers for rail fasteners and was granted the commission.
After a century had passed and the Company made numerous acquisitions around the globe, Vossloh Cogifer Australia began in 2007. The former TKL rail business had been operating in Australia as part of Thompson's in Castlemain since 1879, Cogifer itself as Cogifer SA in France had been in the points and crossings business for over 100 years.
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