KIEV, Feb. 23 - Interpipe Pipe and Wheel Company (Dnipro) has signed a five-year contract to supply railway wheels and axles to Progress Rail Services, a large suppler of railway products and solutions in North America belonging to Caterpillar.

The company said on Thursday that under the terms of this contract, Interpipe will annually deliver more than 10,000 finish-machined railway wheels and more than 1,000 finished-machined railway axles to its American partners.