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 The railway factory of the Ganz company (1880—1959: Ganz Wagon- and Machine Factory, 1959—1988: Ganz–MÁVAG Locomotive, Wagon- and Machine Factory) / Budapest, Kőbányai út 19-33. / | |
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| Company type |
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| Industry | Transport Metallurgy |
| Founded | 1844 in Buda, Kingdom of Hungary |
| Founders | Ábrahám Ganz |
| Defunct | 1989 |
| Fate | Sold in 1989 to diverse companies that used the name 'Ganz'for their own enterprises |
| Headquarters | Buda, Hungary |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | List |
| Products | Trams Trains Ships Electric generators |
| Owner | Ábrahám Ganz and his family (1845–1947) State of Hungary (1947–1949) |
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| Website | ganz-holding.hu |
The Ganz Machinery Works Holding is a Hungarian holding company. Its products are related to rail transport, power generation, and water supply, among other industries.[2]
The original Ganz Works or Ganz (Hungarian: Ganz vállalatok or Ganz Művek, Ganz companies, formerly Ganz and Partner Iron Mill and Machine Factory) operated between 1845 and 1949 in Budapest, Hungary. It was named after Ábrahám Ganz, the founder and manager of the company. Ganz is probably best known for the manufacture of tramcars, but was also a pioneer in the application of three-phase alternating current to electric railways.
Ganz also made ships (through its Ganz Danubius division), bridge steel structures (Ganz Acélszerkezet) and high-voltage equipment (Ganz Transelektro). In the early 20th century the company experienced its heyday and became the third-largest industrial enterprise in the Kingdom of Hungary after the Manfréd Weiss Steel and Metal Works and the MÁVAG company.
Since 1989, various parts of Ganz have been taken over by other companies.