 In November 1983, the company began manufacturing trackwork in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.In 1990, Voest-Alpine Eisenbahnsysteme of Austria, which had been in the trackwork manufacturing business for over 140 years and became independent of Voest-Alpine AG that same year, formed a joint venture with Nortrak Ltd. and the company became known as VAE Nortrak Ltd. Voest-Alpine Eisenbahnsysteme became known as VAE Group, 90 percent owned by a joint venture between Voest-Alpine and Vossloh AG starting in 1998, and a subsidiary of voestalpine AG since 2003.A second plant in Birmingham, Alabama, was completed in 1992, and a third operation in Cheyenne, Wyoming, was completed in 1997, where the company now has its headquarters.