About the company - voestalpine Railway Systems

World-market leader in railway systems

voestalpine Railway Systems, a subsidiary company of voestalpine AG, is the global leader for railway infrastructure system solutions, offering outstanding products, logistics and services for rails, turnouts, signaling and monitoring applications. As the global track technology company and full-range supplier, we offer our customers throughout the world fully integrated railway solutions for all types of rail traffic. Creating maximum customer benefit is the driving force behind all our activities.

With approximately 8,500 employees, we are committed to making an important contribution to the mobility of people and the transport systems all over the world. We have contributed decisively to the development of modern, digital railway systems by deploying modern signaling and monitoring technologies to increase existing capacity and safety as well as lower the costs.

Hugo-Hütte 1858
Know-how for more than 160 years

In 1851, Count Hugo Henckel von Donnersmarck founded the so-called “Hugo-Hütte”, which developed into the most important company in the field of railway systems through consistently innovative research - voestalpine Railway Systems GmbH, former voestalpine VAE GmbH.
All over the world, customers have confidence in this well-founded know-how when they require turnouts systems for highest speeds, highest axle loads or shortest train intervals and complex requirements for individual solutions.

1851: Foundation of the company

1866: Start of industrial turnout production

1953: Start of export activities

1980: Patent on AMS welding

1988: Market introduction of movable crossings (MPF)

1990: Start of internationalization

1992-1992: Privatization of VAE

1998: Successful defense against hostile take-over

2000: Plug and play turnout

2002: Start of industrial HYTRONICS production

2003: New owner; 100% voestalpine

2011: Splitting of the Austrian subsidiary, VAE Eisenbahnsysteme GmbH, in the newly founded voestalpine Weichensysteme GmbH and voestalpine HYTRONICS GmbH

2014: Rebranding/renaming of voestalpine HYTRONICS Group in voestalpine SIGNALING

2018: Bundeling of the railway infrastructure competences (high-tech turnouts, high-quality rails and intelligent, tailor-made signaling solutions) under the joint "Railway Systems" brand

2020: voestalpine Railway Systems GmbH was founded