The group's principal activity is leasing of railway tank cars and other railcars. The group also distributes carbon and stainless steel, aluminum tubular products, chrome and stainless bar, other carbon steel products and aircraft grade tubing, rolled form shapes and other raw materials. Other activities of the group include sulphur processing and storage, manufacturing fasteners, mobile railcar moving vehicles and metal containment vessel heads. The customers of the group are manufacturers and other shippers of chemical products, petroleum products, food products and bulk plastics. The group operates in the United States, Canada, France and Belgium. At 31-Dec-2003, the group's railcar fleet comprised of 65,670 tank cars and 14,978 railway cars of other types.
