Faiveley Transport
| Faiveley Transport SA | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Public limited company under French law |
| founding | 1919 |
| Seat |
Gennevilliers , France
|
| Number of employees | 5,700 |
| sales | 1.048 billion euros |
| Branch | Railway supplier |
| Website | www.faiveleytransport.com |
The Faiveley Transport , based in Gennevilliers , near Paris (France) is a formerly independent publicly traded provider of railway systems and services. The company has been wholly owned by the US rail company Wabtec since 2017 .
Activities and products
The Faiveley Group manufactures the following products: air conditioning systems , electromechanics , vehicle doors , platform screen doors , vehicle electronics, brakes and vehicle clutches . The company operates at 52 locations in 26 countries worldwide; three of them are in Germany, one in Switzerland. The activities in Europe, where the research and development departments are also located, contribute 85% to the result, the rest comes from the markets of North America, China , India , Brazil and Australia . At the largest German site in Witten , where around 300 employees generate a turnover of more than 110 million euros, brake linkages, brake discs, magnetic rail brakes and clutches are developed and manufactured. The Faiveley Transport Leipzig in Schkeuditz with about 250 employees provides air conditioning ago.
Faiveley manufactures systems for passenger coaches , such as entrance doors, sliding steps, compartment doors, on-board converters and air conditioning systems. For the drive train, Faiveley supplies pantographs , switchgear, contactors and main switches as well as complete roof equipment and earth contacts. Faiveley had sold around 45,000 pantographs worldwide by 2008 and also supplied the pantographs for the TGV record run at 515.3 km / h.
Vehicle control technology, video surveillance systems and devices for trip registration as well as systems for the remote transmission of operating and maintenance data are offered as electronic devices . In the brake sector, Faiveley produces vehicle brake systems, wheel slide protection systems and compressors . Automatic couplings are also produced that can independently connect brake lines and electrical control lines.
history
Faiveley was founded in 1919 and initially manufactured electromechanical equipment for public transport such as taxis , subways and passenger cars . At that time there was also an order for equipment for the Paris metro . With the expansion of the subway and electric train operation, the company's range was expanded to include pantographs and automatic door drives.
The French supplier Air-Industrie, founded in 1950, has been part of the Faiveley Group since 1984 . The electronics division has existed since 1968 with a focus on switching systems and energy conversion, to which programmable logic controllers for air conditioning systems were later added. 1995 Faiveley acquired Hagenuk Fahrzeugklima GmbH . In November 2004 Faiveley took over Sab Wabco , one of the leading European companies for rail vehicle brake systems and clutches, with headquarters in Sweden. In 2008 Faiveley took over Nowe , a German manufacturer of sand spreading equipment for trams , and a Chinese compressor manufacturer. In 2010 Faiveley entered into a joint venture with the American manufacturer of freight car bogies Amsted Rail . At the beginning of 2011 Faiveley took over 80% of the Swiss company Urs Dolder AG , which specializes in the manufacture of heating systems.
In 2015, US competitor Wabtec acquired 51% of the capital from the founding family; the necessary approval by the US and EU competition authorities was only available by the end of 2016; Wabtec subsequently opened a mandatory offer to the free shareholders; By March 2017, the share could thus be increased to over 95% of the shares, which made a squeeze-out possible. Since then Faiveley has been wholly owned by Wabtec. The listing was withdrawn accordingly.
Web links
- Website (not updated since purchase by Wabtec)
- Website Wabtec
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2014/15
- ↑ Company history. Faiveley Transport, accessed March 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Faiveley Transport press release , accessed October 11, 2011
- ^ Wabtec signs Faiveley Transport purchase agreement. In: Railway Gazette. Retrieved March 21, 2016 .
- ^ Wabtec closes Faiveley Transport share tender. In: Railway Gazette. Retrieved March 13, 2017 .