Matisa

MATISA Matériel Industriel S.A. is a Swiss company that manufactures rail maintenance machines and provides associated services. It was founded in 1945 and is based in the canton of Vaud, in Switzerland.

==History== The origins of MATISA can be traced back to the working practices of early twentieth century railways; traditionally many of the reoccurring maintenance tasks involved in keeping lines in a safe operating condition had been almost exclusively performed by hand and involved strenuous effort, and thus necessitated considerable continuous labour costs being incurred. During the 1940s, the future founders of MATISA had recognised that mechanisation could improve not only the speed but ease and affordability of track maintenance tasks and had developed their own prototype tamping machine that would act to stabilise track beds while reducing human labour. During 1945, MATISA was established with the purpose of setting up industrial production of this tamper; the company quickly established itself as a competent manufacturer of track maintenance machinery.