Robel track construction machines
| ROBEL Bahnbaumaschinen GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1901 |
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Freilassing , Germany
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| management | Wolfgang R. Fally (Managing Director) |
| Number of employees | 600 |
| Website | www.robel.com |
The ROBEL Bahnbaumaschinen GmbH , based in Freilassing is a manufacturer of railway equipment . These are exported to over 70 countries.
Company history
Today's company goes back to the "Feilenfabrik Georg Robel" founded in Munich in 1875, which was taken over in 1901 by Karl Langkammer, who expanded production to include manual track construction machines and renamed the company to "Gleisbaumaschinenfabrik Georg Robel & Co." The first track-laying machines developed in-house were presented in 1908 at a conference of the “International Tram and Small Railroad Association”. In the following years Robel took part in other machine exhibitions. By 1926, the workforce had grown to around 300.
The product range was expanded to include fire engines in the 1930s , and after the Second World War the company began manufacturing track vehicles and stationary machines. Georg Robel & Co. were also represented at the “Rail & Road” exhibition in Essen in 1951.
Little by little, the development and production of large machines began to expand the range. In the 1960s, rail loading trains (1961), straightening machines (1965) and track stabilizers (1968) were added to the range. A laying system rounded off the product range in 1976.
In 1989 the production of the Robel machines was relocated from Munich to the “Deutsche Plasser” plant founded in Freilassing in 1964, ten years later the administration followed to Freilassing. In August 1999 the company was renamed "Robel Bahnbaumaschinen GmbH".
Between 2003 and 2004 the assembly hall was enlarged, a training building was built, the locksmith's shop was enlarged, the assembly hall was extended and the warehouse was enlarged. In 2015 a new, modern paint shop was put into operation. In 2004 the number of employees was 330, there were more than 100 prototypes and at that time it was already being exported to 70 countries worldwide.
Product range
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Most of the production continues to be small machines for track construction. Especially for screwing are here emerging or tabs screws, grinders and also under the name "Robelachsen" known auxiliary bogies to name, but the product range also includes numerous other devices.
Another branch has been the production of track vehicles since the 1950s. Robel played a key role in the construction of the DB Klv 51 and Klv 53 small cars . For several years now, the Bamowag and its trailers have been producing a new type of track vehicle that is also used by DB and ÖBB . Since 2009, a series of maintenance vehicles for overhead contact line systems has been built for the DB, which are used there under the 711.2 series .
A few special vehicles such as small tamping machines , rail train loading devices for loading and unloading rails on transport vehicles and a mobile maintenance unit as mobile construction site safety and supply round off the production program.
Others
For the Lokwelt Freilassing , which opened in 2003, Robel refurbished various historical track-laying machines.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint
- ↑ Robel Bahnbaumaschinen GmbH - About us. Robel Bahnbaumaschinen GmbH, accessed on March 1, 2010 .
- ↑ Excursion of the DMG district groups Northern Bavaria and Southern Bavaria to Freilassing (PDF file; 170 kB) , In: ZEVrail , 133, 2009, p. 382
Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 49.7 " N , 12 ° 57 ′ 49.7" E