Simmering-Graz-Pauker
The Simmering -Graz -Pauker AG, originally founded as Simmering -Graz -Pauker AG for machinery, boiler and wagon, was one of the most important Austrian machine and engine factories of the 20th century. It was created in 1941 by merger of Simmering machines and wagon stock company with the Graz machines and wagon - Aktiengesellschaft and Paukerwerkstraße Aktiengesellschaft from Vienna.
History
After the Second World War, the company was majority owned by the state and had a wide network of international offices and branches in Asia, South America and Europe with several thousand employees. The Company experienced until the mid- 1980s, rapid growth.
In the early 1990s sold the Republic of Austria as part of the restructuring of the " nationalized economy " their shares to Siemens AG. The company was then continued for a few years as a "Siemens SGP GmbH", this name given up to 1 April 2004. Until 30 September 2009, the former factories of SGP part of the "Siemens Transportation Systems Austria GmbH & Co KG " were.
On 1 October 2009, the Company was converted to a stock corporation and has since been trading as Siemens AG Austria. The plant in Vienna - Simmering celebrated on 16 September 2006 its 175th Anniversary. The works were converted to full-line of Siemens in specialized centers of excellence. The Graz plant is now specializing in the design and manufacture of bogies and other carriages, in Vienna arise metro vehicles and trams. In addition, rail vehicles are being developed at both locations, which are manufactured in other works.
Products
The focus was on energy technology to the construction of turbines and steam boilers up to complete power plants and traffic engineering with the construction of diesel engines, wagons and locomotives for the ÖBB, as well as vehicles for the Vienna and Graz Public Transport (tram, metro ( " Silver Arrow " and "V- wagon" ), high-speed rail ).
End of the 1950s was even developed with the SGP M.222 Flamingo has its own type of aircraft on May 15, 1959, its first flight.
Gallery
- Examples of SGP- vehicles
ÖBB locomotive 1044 060-0
ÖBB 4020 113 -speed rail
ÖBB 4010 ( modernized ) in Graz
Swabia mountain railway in Budapest
Low-floor tramcars ULF B1 in Vienna
Subway car type V in Vienna