Škoda Transtech
| Škoda Transtech Ltd.
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| legal form | Osakeyhtio |
| founding | 1985 |
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Oulu , Finland
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| Branch | Rail vehicles |
| Website | www.transtech.fi |
The company Škoda Transtech Ltd. is an engineering company and the largest manufacturer of rail vehicles in Finland . Transtech Oy has been part of the Czech concern Škoda Transportation since 2015, and in October 2018 it was renamed Škoda Transtech .
history
The company Transtech emerged in 1985 from the Finnish steel company and shipbuilder Rautaruukki . The company began building freight wagons in the Otanmäki and Taivalkoski factories in the 1980s , having previously worked as a subcontractor for other companies for several years.
In 1991 the Valmet vehicle plant in the city of Tampere was incorporated into Transtech. Here they specialized in the production of locomotives and passenger cars .
Legal form and ownership
Until it was taken over by Škoda Transportation, Transtech was a stock corporation under Finnish law (Oy).
The parent company Rautaruukki sold the factory in Taivalkoski to the mechanical engineering company Telatek in 1998 and a short time later, in June 1999, sold the entire rail vehicle construction to the Spanish company Patentes Talgo . The name of the company changed to Talgo-Transtech Oy or Talgo Oy with the sale .
Patentes Talgo sold the shares of its Finnish subsidiary Talgo Oy to Pritech Oy , a group of Finnish investors , in March 2007 . The company was renamed Transtech Oy again .
On August 4, 2015 it was announced that the Finnish company Transtech is now part of the Czech concern Škoda Transportation .
Products
Transtech offers metal and mechanical engineering services . Components for other manufacturers as well as finished products from the field of metal and electrical engineering are manufactured.
The main business area is rail vehicle construction. For the Finnish railway VR , double-decker passenger cars for intercity traffic, double-decker sleeping cars and also double-decker car transporters are manufactured, which are specially equipped for the severe climatic conditions in Northern Europe.
Between 1998 and 2003 Transtech started building trams and took over the final assembly of the forty Variobahn wagons destined for the Helsinki transport company as a subcontractor of the manufacturer ADtranz .
As the first in-house development in the tram sector , Transtech is building the current generation of vehicles for the only Finnish tram company under the name Transtech Artic . In 2013 two pre-series cars were delivered, the series production of a further 38 vehicles has followed since 2015. A design study of the vehicles was exhibited in June 2012 at the “HiDesign” trade fair in Helsinki.
Locations
The company is now managed in the city of Oulu , with production at the Otanmäki plant.
Key figures
The company has 431 employees. The expected turnover for 2011 is 80 million euros. Of this, 60 million euros go to the manufacture of railway vehicles, 20 million euros to metal and mechanical engineering (as of February 2011).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/business/single-view/view/skoda-transportation-buys-majority-stake-in-transtech.html (English), from August 4, 2015; accessed on November 15, 2015
- ↑ HKL press release: Transtech delivers new trams for Helsinki ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Finnish)
- ↑ Photo of the design study on finland.fi ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Transtech website
