Adtranz

DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems
FormerlyABB Daimler Benz Transportation
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryRail transportation
Founded1 January 1996; 28 years ago (1996-01-01) (through merger)
Defunct1 May 2001 (2001-05-01)
FateAcquired by Bombardier
SuccessorBombardier Transportation
Headquarters,
Germany[1]
Key people
Rolf Eckrodt (President, Chairman)[2]
ProductsRail vehicles, railway electrification and signalling
RevenueDM5.7 billion (1996)[3]
DM6.4 billion (1997)[4]
€3.3 billion (DM6.5 billion) (1998)[5]
€3.6 billion (1999)[6]
€3.9 billion (2000)[7]
OwnerABB and Daimler-Benz (1996–1999)
Daimler Chrysler (1999–2001)
Number of employees
22,715 (1997)[4]

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.

  1. ^ DaimlerBenz Annual Report 1996, p.84
  2. ^ "Rolf Eckrodt". referenceforbusiness.com.
  3. ^ DaimlerBenz Annual Report 1996, p. 29
  4. ^ a b DaimlerBenz Annual Report 1997, pp. 39–40
  5. ^ DaimlerChrysler Annual Report 1998, p.47
  6. ^ DaimlerChrysler Annual Report 1999, p. 49
  7. ^ DaimlerChrysler Annual Report, p.42