In 1905, the company moved its plant and offices to a larger site with good railway connections close to the Ghent Ostend Canal at Sint-Michiels in Bruges.

[1] In addition to railway rolling stock, the company also manufactured bridges, locks and sluice gates, cranes, and vessels for the chemical and sugar industries.

The original "Type 1" cars for Portland, Oregon's MAX Light Rail system, ordered in 1981, were built by BN in association with Bombardier Transportation.

[16][17] A consortium of BN and ACEC provided the first-generation light rail vehicles (LRTA 1000 class) for the Manila LRT Line 1, which opened in 1984.

These cars are being decommissioned with the arrival of newer 13000 class LRVs built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF).

[19] In 1994, the company, in association with INKA and Holec, built commuter trains for the KRL Jabotabek system.

[citation needed] In 1998, after takeover by Bombardier, the company obtained an order with a total value of 22.2 billion Belgian francs to produce 105 Bombardier Voyager trains for the Virgin Rail Group, Midland Mainline and Hull Trains in the United Kingdom at the Bruges and Manage plants; BN's value share of the contract was estimated at 8 to 10 billion Belgian francs.