Škoda Transtech Oy is

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's major domestic manufacturer of low-floor tram and railway rolling stock. It specializes in building tram and railway vehicles for extreme climatic conditions, such as those encountered in Finland.

History

The company was established in 1985 when the Finnish engineering firm Rautaruukki started manufacturing freight wagons in Otanmäki and Taivalkoski. In 1991 the railway

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works of

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(in

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), which specialized in the manufacture of carriages and

locomotive A locomotive is a rail transport, rail vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. Traditionally, locomotives pulled trains from the front. However, Push–pull train, push–pull operation has become common, and in the pursuit for ...

s, was merged with Transtech. In 1998 Rautaruukki sold the Taivalkoski factory to Telatek Oy, retaining the Otanmäki plant. In June 1999 Rautaruukki sold Transtech to Patentes Talgo SA of

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, but was subsequently sold to the Finnish group Pritech Oy in March 2007. During the period of Spanish ownership, the company was known as ''Talgo Oy'', but has reverted to its previous name. In August 2015

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bought a 75% stake in the company, purchasing the remaining 25% in May 2018 and rebranding it Škoda Transtech in October 2018.

Rolling stock

The company has manufactured double-deck carriages ( sleeper cars, InterCity 2 passenger cars and vehicle transport carriages) which are used by VR (Finnish Railways). It also provides Helsinki's new articulated

trams A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which Rolling stock, vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some ...

of the type ForCity Smart Artic for the Helsinki City Transport (HKL). In October 2016 Transtech was selected to provide 19 Arctic Forcity Smart X34 trams for the new Tampere light rail system. Škoda Transtech will also participate in supplying modern trams for German transport company Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr (rnv) together with

. In October 2018 Škoda Transtech sold two pre-series Artic trams to German operator Schöneicher-Rüdersdorfer Strassenbahn GmbH (SRS) in Schöneiche bei Berlin. The Helsinki Artic vehicle #402, now operating in Schöneiche as #52 is the first Škoda Transportation vehicle to receive German homologation. The sale was established in cooperation with Helsinki City Transport and the support of Voith Digital Solutions Austria GmbH & Co KG following a two-month trial period from August to October 2018. In September 2019 Škoda Transtech announced that they had been selected to provide suburban trains for the Latvian passenger railway company PV for a value worth approximately 250 million EUR, with fulfillment of the order starting in 2021 and lasting until 2024.

Location

The company's office is located in

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and its main manufacturing base is in Otanmäki,

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. The company’s sales office as well as maintenance services are located in Helsinki.

References

External links

Official website
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Finnish companies established in 1985 Manufacturing companies established in 1985

History

Rolling stock

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