Harsco Rail is a global supplier of railway track maintenance and construction solutions, supporting more than 125 railways worldwide.
With over 100 years of experience, Harsco Rail is the largest railway infrastructure maintenance provider in the Western Hemisphere, delivering equipment, services, and technology designed to support track construction, maintenance, and renewal across the full rail lifecycle.
As a division of Enviri, Harsco Rail plays a key role in advancing infrastructure performance, safety, and long-term asset reliability.
Harsco Environmental supports Enviri’s sustainability-driven strategy by delivering customizable solutions that address environmental challenges in steel production.
Steel mill services form the core of the business and include:
These services span more than 30 capabilities delivered on-site, including scrap processing, slag handling, material logistics, and industrial by-product recovery.
These services are supported by advanced inspection and diagnostic systems that provide analytical data on track conditions, helping rail operators plan preventive maintenance and improve network performance.
Harsco Rail differentiates itself through innovative technology solutions designed to improve productivity, safety, and operational efficiency.
Its core intellectual property includes the proprietary Jupiter machine control platform, which integrates embedded software, advanced algorithms, and specialized hardware to automate and control maintenance-of-way equipment such as tampers and grinders.
This global presence allows Harsco Rail to support both established rail networks and growing infrastructure markets.
9 sites across
7 countries
21 service locations
worldwide
Expert support available
in 27 countries
By operating directly at customer sites and applying advanced recovery and processing capabilities, Harsco Environmental plays a key role in improving resource efficiency, reducing industrial waste, and supporting more sustainable steel production.
Harsco Rail’s solutions are aligned with key challenges facing rail operators today, including:
Rail maintenance is evolving toward more automated, data-driven approaches, with greater reliance on predictive maintenance and digital inspection technologies.
Harsco Rail’s solutions are designed to help operators address these challenges while maintaining safe and reliable networks.
Harsco Environmental differentiates itself through:
The business competes both with global service providers and smaller regional operators, as well as with customers that may perform services internally. Its ability to deliver a broad range of services at scale, supported by global best practices and technology, is a key differentiator.
Harsco Rail contributes to more sustainable rail systems by:
Certain technologies are also designed to improve operational efficiency and reduce emissions during maintenance activities.
For example, the TX-16 Hybrid Tamper enables continuous movement during tamping operations, increasing productivity compared to traditional systems and reducing idle time between cycles.