Adtranz

ABB Daimler -Benz Transportation, and its successor DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems were railway engineering companies, which were known by the brand name Adtranz. ABB Daimler -Benz Transportation was created in 1996 by the merger of the traffic engineering division of Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) and Daimler -Benz. After complete withdrawal of ABB, the company was renamed DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems in 1999 and sold in 2001 to Bombardier.

• 3.1 Traffic Engineering division ABB
• 3.2 Traffic Engineering Division AEG
• 3.3 ABB Daimler -Benz Transportation

History

Predecessor

The history of ABB Daimler -Benz Transportation is closely related to the concentration of the rail technology industry in Europe:

ABB Transportation Systems was founded in 1990 from the traffic engineering division of ABB, which had from the merger of the Swedish Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget ( ASEA ), and the Swiss Brown, Boveri & Cie ( BBC ) emerged and also the railway construction of Henschel adopted in 1988. BBC had already taken over the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon in 1967 ( MFO ).

The traffic engineering divisions of belonging since 1985, Daimler -Benz Aktiengesellschaft were called AEG AEG rail vehicles based in Hennigsdorf and AEG wayside systems. The AEG Railway was formed in 1992 from the merger of the former West German AEG Westinghouse Transportation Systems forth with the expropriated after the Second World War by the Soviet occupation of AEG LEW Hennigsdorf. The AEG wayside systems, a company founded in 1994 in the fields of traction power supply and rail lines of AEG Aktiengesellschaft.

The AEG Westinghouse Transportation Systems consisted of railway engineering division of AEG Aktiengesellschaft, with that of Westinghouse for AEG Westinghouse Transportation Systems merged in 1988. AEG Westinghouse Transportation Systems had introduced the AEG factory in what was then West Berlin at the Nonnendammallee where electrical equipment was built for railway vehicles and also the M -Bahn was developed. Westinghouse was mainly in the People Mover operates. AEG Westinghouse Transportation Systems from 1990 trading under the MAN Gutehoffnungshütte the rail equipment division of MAN and 1993 the monorail area of the Swiss Roll.

ABB Daimler -Benz Transportation

The merger of ABB transport systems and traffic engineering division of Daimler -Benz, which is still operating under the AEG, was agreed in 1995, and completed on 1 January 1996. The shares of ABB Daimler -Benz Transportation belonged equally to the founding companies. With 22,000 employees in 40 countries, ABB Daimler -Benz Transportation was the world's largest provider of rail solutions. The European Union approved the Merger only on the condition that the AEG Kiepe sold, which produced electrical equipment for light rail vehicles and trolley - buses.

In 1996, ABB Daimler -Benz Transportation the software area of the engineering company for transport planning and traffic safety ( IVV ) in Braunschweig, which later was named Adtranz Signal.

Rolf Eckrodt takes over the presidency in 1998 by ABB Daimler -Benz Transportation, which in the same year introduced seven product lines with which the production costs for rail vehicles are to be reduced. These are

• Innovia: People Mover
• Incentro: trams in low-floor technology
• Movia: U -Bahn and S-Bahn
• Itino: EMUs for regional transport
• Crusaris: trains for long-distance transport
• Octeon: Electric Locomotives
• Blue Tiger: Diesel locomotives with diesel engines and electrical equipment from General Electric

In November 1999, the company announced that it would stop production at its two Swiss plants ( in Pratteln and Zurich Oerlikon ). After public protests, some of the staff was taken over in 2001, the newly formed successor company Railcor.

DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems

Due to the complete withdrawal of ABB from the traffic engineering industry, was from ABB Daimler -Benz Transportation on July 1, 1999, the company DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems, which has a 100 - was % subsidiary of Daimler AG today.

Sale to Bombardier

On August 4, 2000, DaimlerChrysler announced its intention to sell the Adtranz Group to the Canadian company Bombardier Transportation. The acquisition was approved on 3 April 2001 by the European Commission, subject to conditions and completed in the same year, except remained the Berlin- Pankow, who was from Stadler Rail completely (before our 50% joint venture ) acquired and the business Fixed installations ( railway power supply systems ), which was purchased by the Balfour Beatty plc and since then acts as Balfour Beatty rail GmbH as a separate division within the Balfour Beatty rail group.

In mid-December 2000, the branch in Donauwörth was closed. Last worked there only 41 employees. The site had been built as a wagon - und Maschinenbau GmbH 54 years previously (WMD ). Later, the company became part of MBB. As early as 1991 the rail vehicle had been set, the design department remained initially.

In the first half of 2001 ended with 423/433 084 in manufacturing Adtranz factory in Nuremberg.

Brand

ABB Daimler -Benz Transportation used as part of the corporate identity developed by Landor Associates word mark Adtranz which both the letters A and D of the two founding companies, as well as A and z contained a reference to the provision of complete solutions. In her public appearances, the companies have the brand equated with the company name.

The brand is by Adtranz journalistic letters written with a small d, the abbreviation has more than four letters, but the official spelling was ADtranz with large D. In addition ADtranz was also the slogan ADtranz - we speak railways a registered word mark. The rights to the slogan in 2007, cleared at Adtranz 2008.

List of previous individual companies

Transportation business ABB

• ABB transport systems with the following predecessor companies: Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget ( ASEA ), Sweden
• Brown, Boveri & Cie ( BBC ), Baden
• Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon ( MFO ), Zurich Oerlikon
• Henschel AG, Kassel, Rhine Stahl AG was temporarily then August Thyssen Hütte AG
• Waggon Union, Berlin and Netphen

Transportation business AEG

• AEG wayside systems GmbH
• AEG Rail Vehicles Hennig village with the following predecessor companies: LEW Hennigsdorf, Hennigsdorf
• Railway engineering sector AEG Westinghouse Transportation Systems, Berlin and Pittsburgh
• MAN Gutehoffnungshütte rail transportation equipment, Nuremberg
• Roll of monorails

ABB Daimler -Benz Transportation

ABB Daimler -Benz Transportation acquired companies:

• Range of software Engineers for Transport Planning and Traffic Safety ( IVV ), Braunschweig (1996 )
• Schindler Waggon AG (SWG / SWP), Pratteln (1997)
• Pafawag, Wroclaw (1997)
• Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM ), Winterthur ( 1998)