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ABB Daimler Benz Transportation / DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems (from 1999)

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding January 1, 1996 (merger of the traffic engineering divisions of ABB (company) and Daimler-Benz )
resolution 2001
Reason for dissolution Disbanded after takeover by Bombardier Transportation , Stadler Rail and Balfour Beatty Rail
Seat Berlin , Germany
Number of employees 22,715 (1997)
Branch Rail transport

ABB Daimler Benz Transportation and its successor DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems were rail technology companies that were known under the brand name Adtranz . A BB D aimler Benz Trans portation was created in 1996 through the merger of traffic engineering divisions of ABB and Daimler-Benz . After the complete withdrawal from ABB, the company was renamed DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems in 1999 and finally sold to Bombardier in 2001 .

Adtranz People Mover CX-100 ( Bukit Panjang LRT , Singapore )
Adtranz tram Incentro ( Nantes )
Adtranz regional train Itino ( Erfurt Railway )
Adtranz long-distance train Crusaris ( Regina , Sweden )
Adtranz electric locomotive Octeon ( MTAB IORE , Sweden )
Adtranz Diesel Locomotive Blue Tiger (Prototype)

history

predecessor

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

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

The traffic engineering divisions of AEG Aktiengesellschaft, which has belonged to Daimler-Benz since 1985, were called AEG rail vehicles , most recently based in Hennigsdorf near Berlin, and AEG Bahnfahrwegsysteme . The AEG rail vehicles was formed in 1992 by merging the former West German AEG Westinghouse Transport Systems with after World War II by the Soviet occupation expropriated by AEG LEW Hennigsdorf forth. The AEG wayside systems was a 1994 in the areas of traction power supply and train lines of AEG Aktiengesellschaft company was founded.

Adtranz Class 357 at Southend Central (London)

The AEG Westinghouse Transport Systems consisted of railway engineering division of AEG Aktiengesellschaft in 1988 with that of Westinghouse for AEG Westinghouse Transport Systems merged. AEG Westinghouse Transport-Systeme owned the factory brought in by AEG in what was then West Berlin on Nonnendammallee, where electrical equipment for rail vehicles was built and the M-Bahn was also developed. Westinghouse was mainly active in the area of ​​people movers . AEG Westinghouse Transport Systems took over in 1990 under the MAN Gutehoffnungshütte rail equipment firmierende division of MAN and 1993 the monorail section of the Swiss of rolling .

ABB Daimler Benz Transportation

The merger of ABB Verkehrssysteme and the traffic engineering divisions of Daimler-Benz, which still operated under AEG , was agreed in 1995 and completed on January 1, 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 has become the world's largest provider of rail transport technology. The European Union approved the merger only on the condition that the AEG company Kiepe sold the electrical equipment for light rail vehicles and trolley buses produced.

In 1996, ABB Daimler Benz Transportation took over the software division of the engineering company for traffic planning and traffic safety (IVV) in Braunschweig , which was later called Adtranz Signal .

In 1998, Rolf Eckrodt took over the chairmanship of ABB Daimler Benz Transportation , which in the same year presented seven product lines with which the production costs for rail vehicles are to be reduced. It is this

In November 1999, the company announced that it would end production in its two Swiss plants (in Pratteln and Zurich Oerlikon ). After public protests, some of the employees were transferred to the successor company Railcor , which was founded in 2001 .

DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems

As a result of the complete withdrawal of ABB from the traffic engineering sector, on July 1, 1999, ABB Daimler Benz Transportation became DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems , which was a 100% subsidiary of today's Daimler AG .

Sale to Bombardier

On August 4, 2000, DaimlerChrysler announced its intention to sell the Adtranz Group to the Canadian company Bombardier Transportation . The takeover was approved by the European Commission on April 3, 2001 subject to conditions and completed in the same year, with the exception of the Berlin-Pankow location, which was completely taken over by Stadler Rail (previously a 50% joint venture), and the division Fixed Installations (railway energy supply systems), which was bought by Balfour Beatty plc and has since acted as Balfour Beatty Rail GmbH as an independent division within the Balfour Beatty Rail Group.

In mid-December 2000 the branch in Donauwörth was closed. Most recently, 41 employees worked there. The location had been set up 54 years earlier as Waggon- und Maschinenbau GmbH Donauwörth (WMD). The company was later transferred to Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB). Rail vehicle construction had already been discontinued in 1991, the construction department was initially retained.

In the first half of 2001, production at the Adtranz plant in Nuremberg ended with 423/433 084 .

brand

Company signs in a SEPTA car. The Adtranz logo can be seen in the middle .

As part of the corporate identity, ABB Daimler Benz Transportation used the Adtranz word mark developed by Landor Associates , which contained both the initials A and D of the two founding companies as well as A and z indicating the range of complete solutions. In their public appearances, the companies have equated the brand with the company name.

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

List of former sole proprietorships

Transportation technology division ABB

AEG traffic engineering division

ABB Daimler Benz Transportation

Companies taken over by ABB Daimler Benz Transportation :

Web links

Commons : Adtranz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Railway Age, January 1993: AEG Westinghouse buying Swiss system - monorail business of Von Roll AG ( Memento from July 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ News from ABB Daimler-Benz is called Adtranz . In: Railway technical review . 45, No. 1/2, 1996, p. 1.
  3. ↑ 97/25 / EG: Commission decision of October 18, 1995 on the compatibility of a merger with the common market and the functioning of the EEA Agreement in a procedure under Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 (Case IV /M.580 - ABB / Daimler-Benz) (PDF; 135 kB), Official Journal of the European Union No. L 011 of January 14, 1997, pp. 0001–0029.
  4. ↑ Adtranz: restructuring based on seven product lines ( Memento from May 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) in Railway Age , April 1998.
  5. ↑ From Adtranz Pratteln to Railcor AG . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 4/2001, pp. 168/169.
  6. ↑ EU Commission approves Adtranz takeover with reservations . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 5/2001, p. 228.
  7. ^ Message "Off" for the Donauwörth location . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 2/2001, p. 57.
  8. ↑ News update shortly . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 7/2001, pp. 292/293.
  9. ^ Register information from the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) for Adtranz
  10. ↑ ADtranz - New corporate identity and name development for a leading railway technology company ( Memento from July 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 180 kB)
  11. ↑ Adtranz in Brief . Archived from the original on December 28, 1996. Retrieved on January 23, 2011: “The international railway group Adtranz is the world's most complete provider of railway systems. The group was legally formed on January 1, 1996 by merging the respective railway activities of Swiss-Swedish electrical engineering group ABB, Zurich, Switzerland, and Daimler-Benz AG, Stuttgart, Germany. "
  12. ^ Register information from the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) for the slogan Adtranz - we speak railways
  13. ↑ Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft: Annual Report 1997 ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 6.9 MB) p. 40.