13 Facts About Vossloh

Vossloh AG is a rail technology company based in Werdohl in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Vossloh is a global market leader both for rail fasteners and switch systems.

In North America Vossloh is the leading manufacturer of concrete railway ties.

Since the restructuring, Vossloh has been focusing on target markets China, the USA, Russia and Western Europe.

In 1946 production of holders for fluorescent tubes was allowed to take place at a plant in Ludenscheid, by 1962 an additional plant for lighting products had opened in Selm and the Vossloh works employed 1,300 people, with 500 more employed in subsidiaries.

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On June 13,1990, the shares of Vossloh AG were listed on the Dusseldorf Stock Exchange for the first time.

Under company CEO Burkhard Schuchmann Vossloh was re-orientated as a rail industry based company during and after the 1990s; In 2002 the lighting division was sold to Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Vossloh continued to expand; its first acquisition in North America was Pohl Corp, followed by Cleveland Track Material Inc, both acquired in 2007.

End of 2016, Vossloh acquired Rocla Concrete Tie, Inc, headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado from Altus Capital Partners II.

Vossloh has three divisions contribute to the core business, rail infrastructure: Core Components, Customized Modules and Lifecycle Solutions.

Vossloh is a majority shareholder in a joint venture with the Argentine state owned infrastructure company ADIFSE called Vossloh Cogifer Argentina SA created in 2013, with a production plant located near the city of La Plata.

The Vossloh offer covers all fields of application: standard, high-speed, special and heavy-haul switches, as well as solutions for urban networks.

In September 2012, Vossloh unveiled a mockup of the "Desert Hawk" locomotive, a single ended development of its Euro locomotive design intended for use in push-pull passenger trains in hot and sandy conditions.