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Stadler Rail

Stadler is the reliable and successful global partner for tailormade and modular vehicle solutions, alternative traction concepts, innovative train control system and customized services over the full life cycle. Sustainable mobility on five continents – for more than 80 years.

Profile

Stadler employs around 13’500 people worldwide and offers a comprehensive range of products in the railway and commuter rail segments: high-speed and intercity trains, regional and suburban trains, metro trains, tram trains and trams. In addition, the company manufactures locomotives and passenger carriages. We are also the world's leading manufacturer of rack-and-pinion rail vehicles for steep gradients.

Stadler also builds trains with alternative traction systems for non- or partially electrified networks: traction batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or ICE’s, HVO based diesel engines, as well as hybrid dual mode or tri mode concepts. In combination with the light-weight aluminum integral construction of the car bodies and Stadler's digital solutions, these innovative drive concepts help to increase the environmental performance of railway transport even further.

We also offer our customers a comprehensive range of services from repairs and maintenance all the way to revision and refurbishment of rolling stock. Furthermore, our signaling division develops digital solutions for autonomous driving and train protection systems.

The demand for environmentally friendly mobility solutions is increasing around the world. Against this backdrop, Stadler has been able to expand continually and rapidly in the past two decades, thanks in large part to its pronounced customer centric focus, specialist expertise and reliability. To date, our company has sold more than 10’900 train units in 43 countries. Stadler's consolidated turnover has increased more than twentyfold from CHF 161 million (2000) to CHF 3.8 billion (2022).

Our values

We build trains from the perspective of our customers. Stadler listens, develops and builds optimal railway vehicles not only on behalf of, but also together with its customers. For us, each project is a personal matter.

Our core values are cutting-edge technology, cost-effectiveness, partnership, responsibility, reliability and flexibility, always with a strong focus on our customers.

Market

In recent years, Stadler has continually gained market share – both through acquisitions as well as through the company's own growth. In the US, the Group opened a plant in Salt Lake City in spring 2019, with 350 employees. In Germany, Stadler's Berlin/Pankow site was extended in 2020/2021.In Lodz, Poland, the company also commissioned a new service site. In terms of the domestic market, at the end of 2019 we moved into a new production plant in St. Margrethen that replaced our Altenrhein location.

With recent larger orders for narrow gauge locomotives and metro trains from customers in Taiwan and New Zealand, Stadler has also reached the Asia Pacific region. 

In addition to the advancing electrification of routes and the construction of high-speed connections, one of the key technological trends in the industry are alternative drive concepts for reduced emissions during operation. Further trends include digitalisation and automation of rail vehicles and technology with the long-term goal of fully automated operation. With projects in all of these areas, Stadler is on the cutting edge of technological development.

Organisation

Stadler is a public limited company and has been publicly traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange since spring 2019. Around 41.5 per cent of shares are held by Chairman of the Board of Directors Peter Spuhler. The remaining shares are either free float shares or are held by management.

Stadler operates a total of fifteen production and engineering locations in Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Spain, Hungary, USA, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Furthermore, Stadler Rail Service (SRS) maintains more than 80 service centres in 21 countries. The Group headquarters are located in Bussnang in Eastern Switzerland.

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