SABB S.A. (an acronym for S.A. Bautista Buriasco e Hijos Ltda.)Calvo recorrió la fábrica de vagones SAAB de María Juana con el Presidente del Belgrano Cargas
on Radio Rafaela, 2 Jul 2021 is an

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rolling stock manufacturer and

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based in

María Juana María Juana is a town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, located 125 km from the provincial capital ( Santa Fe) and 210 km from the province's largest city, Rosario. It has a population of about 5,000. The main economic activity ...

, Santa Fe Province. The company was founded in 1951 and has supplied over 10,000 vehicles to the Argentine railways over the years. The company was the first Argentine rolling stock company set up after the nationalisation of the railways in 1948 and was the first company to produce cargo cars in the country after Ferrocarriles Argentinos ordered 2,000 cars in 1951. The company currently has a factory in María Juana where it is based.

History

In the 1930s, Bautista Buriasco bought shares in ''La Margariteña'', a

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manufacturer of Colonia Margarita, Santa Fe Province. In 1938 he moved the factory to the city of María Juana, where it continued producing agricultural machinery. After the World War II the company used military trucks to adapt them to transport cattle and

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s. In 1944 Buriasco established a new company, "La Soberana", that started to produce cannons, pontoons for the Argentine Army, fuel tanks for YPF and water tank for Obras Sanitarias, the main water supply company of Argentina by then. When the whole Argentine railway network was

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in 1948, the rolling stock was seriously damaged due to the lack of maintenance. In view of that situation, Buriasco secretly built a goods wagon to offer it to the National Government. Once the wagon prototype received approval from the Ministry of Transport, the Buriasco Family signed a contract to build 2,000 units of

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, livestock and open wagons. On January 1, 1951, "Bautista Buriasco e Hijos" was established. Under that name the company started the construction of a new factory to build and distribute the wagons. A railway line to the factory entrance was built for that purpose. During the 1970s the company had around 1,000 employees, but this number declined after the privatisation of the railways and fell to just 80 by 2012. However, following the re-nationalisation of the railways in 2012–2015, business has picked up again with contracts coming from the state fright operator Belgrano Cargas. SABB has exported vehicles to neighbouring countries such as Brazil and

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, as well as selling to domestic freight companies such as

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, Ferrosur Roca and

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.Visita a la fábrica de vagones S.A. Bautista Buriasco
on Rieles, 10 Dec 2013 In 2014, the Government of Argentina commissioned SABB to repair and refurbish 59 freight wagons, that were added to the

Belgrano Cargas y Logística Belgrano Cargas y Logística S.A. (trading name: Trenes Argentinos Cargas) is an Argentine State-owned company which operates a freight rail network that includes Belgrano, Urquiza and San Martín railways. It is a subsidiary of the Ferrocarri ...

division.La fábrica de vagones Sabb SA que supo resurgir con prepotencia de trabajo
on La Capital, 9 Nov 2014Sabb S.A. de María Juana reparará 59 vagones de la empresa Belgrano Cargas
by Luis O. Vietto, 17 Apr 2014 on Region Oeste After the Buriasco family left the business, SABB S.A. continued operating.

References

External links

Official website
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