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Harsco Track Technologies (HTT) recently received track maintenance equipment orders from the Indian Railways and Africa's Societe Nationale Industrielle et Miniere (SNIM) totaling about $20 million. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in early 2005.

HTT will build four track renewal trains for the Indian Railways, which manages a 42,000-mile system. The multi-unit trains are designed to remove old ties and rail, level and prepare ballast, lay new ties and thread in new rails in one continuous operation. Indian Railways currently is operating three similar trains it previously ordered from HTT.

For Mauritania's SNIM, HTT will build a grinder the iron-ore mining company plans to use to re-profile rail on a heavily used 435-mile railway linking an inland mine and ports. The order represents HTT's first sale of mechanized grinding equipment in Africa following smaller orders for ballast tampers and other equipment, according to a prepared statement.