Adtranz
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Adtranz was a multi-national rail transportation equipment manufacturer with facilities concentrated in Europe and the US. The company, legally known as ABB Daimler-Benz Transportation, was created in 1996 as a joint venture between ABB and Daimler-Benz to combine their rail equipment manufacturing operations. In 1999, DaimlerChrysler (successor to Daimler-Benz) bought ABB's shares and changed the company's official name to DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems. The company was acquired by Bombardier in 2001, which merged it into its Bombardier Transportation division, which became the largest rail equ
Key facts
- Company.name
- DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems
- Company.logo
- ADtranz Logo.svg
- Company.former_name
- ABB Daimler Benz Transportation
- Company.type
- Subsidiary
- Company.fate
- Acquired by Bombardier
- Company.successor
- Bombardier Transportation
- Company.foundation
- (through merger)
- Company.location_city
- Berlin
- Company.location_country
- Germany
- Company.key_people
- Rolf Eckrodt (President, Chairman)
- Company.industry
- Rail transportation
- Company.products
- Rail vehicles, railway electrification and signalling
- Company.revenue
- DM5.7 billion (1996)DM6.4 billion (1997)€3.6 billion (1999) €3.9 billion (2000)
- Company.owner
- ABB and Daimler-Benz (1996–1999)Daimler Chrysler (1999–2001)
- Company.num_employees
- 22,715 (1997)
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Wikidata facts
- Employees
- 22715
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- Adtranz
- inception
- 1996-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2001-00-00
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- History
- Brand
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- Facilities inherited on foundation
- Notes
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Adtranz was a multi-national rail transportation equipment manufacturer with facilities concentrated in Europe and the US. The company, legally known as ABB Daimler-Benz Transportation, was created in 1996 as a joint venture between ABB and Daimler-Benz to combine their rail equipment manufacturing operations. In 1999, DaimlerChrysler (successor to Daimler-Benz) bought ABB's shares and changed the company's official name to DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems. The company was acquired by Bombardier in 2001, which merged it into its Bombardier Transportation division, which became the largest rail equipment manufacturer in the world at the time, and was ultimately acquired by Alstom in 2021.
Adtranz manufactured locomotives, high-speed, regional, metro and underground passenger trains, trams and people movers as well as freight wagons. Non-rolling stock businesses included railway electrification and signalling infrastructure.