SABB S.A. (an acronym for S.A. Bautista Buriasco e Hijos Ltda.)[2] is an Argentine rolling stock manufacturer and shipyard[3] based in María Juana, 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 32000 m2 factory in María Juana where it is based.[4]
History
In the 1930s, Bautista Buriasco bought shares in La Margariteña, a combine harvester manufacturer of Colonia Margarita, Santa Fe Province. In 1938 he moved the factory to the city of María Juana, where it continued producing