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The path to exemplary working efficiency
Until the middle of the 20th century, track laying and track maintenance required heavy manual labour. Work sites were characterised by manual methods of work that made large numbers of staff necessary. Today, railway construction is among the most efficient industrial sectors with the highest level of automation.
The historic achievement of Plasser & Theurer is the significant contribution it has made to this development. Since 1953, we have been setting technological milestones enabling higher working speeds, higher quality of work and, on the bottom line, economic advantages for our customers and the railway.
- Machine technology
- All machine technologies
- Plain line tamping machines
- Ballast distributing and profiling machines
- Ballast cleaning machines and spoil loading
- Universal and turnout tamping machines
- Lining machines and on-board electronics
- Special tamping machines and optional equipment
- Stabilising and consolidating machines
- Formation rehabilitation
- Renewal and laying of tracks and turnouts - in the assembly-line method
- Renewal and laying of tracks and turnouts - in cyclic action
- Track motor vehicles and electrification
- Track recording
- Mobile rail treatment
- Special machines
More than 17,400 heavy-duty machines supplied to 110 countries.
2,200 employees in Austria.
Partner companies on all continents.
EM120VT – Unimat 09-4x4/4S E³
The first fully automated M2M communication
Eco-retrofits for the future of tamping
Upgrade from hydraulic to electric tamping units
Unimat 09-8x4/4S BR Dynamic E³
Eight innovations in one machine
A new era begins at Plasser American
Capacities double during ongoing operations
1.8 million tamping insertions in Great Britain, no significant signs of wear
09-16 Dynamic in Japan
The integrated Dynamic Track Stabiliser increases cost efficiency
The best benefits of two worlds: 2X-4x4 tamping units for tracks and turnouts
Railway lines open for traffic immediately after track rehabilitation with the RUS 1000 S
23 machines in the new design supplied to eight countries
Plasser India opens a new production site in Karjan, India
The 09-3X maintains a high-speed network in Morocco
The SVM 1000 I is used to build a broad-gauge freight corridor in India
P&T Research is launched: highlighting research and new technologies for the railway infrastructure and track maintenance machines
German Federal Railways (DB) presents Plasser & Theurer with the “supplier of the year” award in the category “rail vehicles and rail vehicle parts” for the multifunctional track infrastructure maintenance vehicles from the MISS series.
The PlasserSmartMaintenance initiative offers digital tools for machines, fleets and the infrastructure. The EM100VT track inspection vehicle provides the ideal research environment for on-track testing.
The E³ work unit carries out 1,000,000 tamping cycles on a specially developed test rig
The 16,000th machine is supplied: a Unimat Combi 08-275 handed over to the Italian Railways RFI at the iaf in Münster/Germany
Plasser & Theurer Connected
the focus of this start-up company in Hagenberg/Austria is on data science
E³ Next Generation
hybrid drive with battery technology in the HTW 100 E³
E³ Next Generation
fully electric hybrid drive in the Unimat 09-4x4/4S E³
High Output Ballast Cleaning System HOBCS 5
Biggest single contract in the company’s history: 53 machines of High Output Ballast Cleaning System HOBCS 5 delivered
SmartALC
The further development of the automatic guiding computer with a new user interface ensuring simpler operation.
Nomination for the Supplier Award of Deutsche Bahn for rail vehicles/vehicles components.
Unimat 09-32/4S Dynamic E³
The first universal tamping machine for tracks and turnouts powered by our E³ hybrid drive.
09-4X E³ Dynamic Tamping Express
The world's first track maintenance machines with hybrid drive
BDS 2000 E³
Expanded fields of application thanks to reduced noise and exhaust gas emissions
SES 170
Sleeper exchange system for Japan
MTW 160
Fast intervention vehicle for the overhead line
APT 1500 RC
Rail welding robot in container design
30 years of continuous tamping technology
an idea gains worldwide acceptance
Unimat 09-4x4/4S
Turnout tamping made easier
GMTZ self-propelled track recording car
for DB Netz AG - manufacturing quality of the highest level
109-4X Dynamic Tamping Express
from the series of the most powerful tamping machines
New tamping tine
Slim shape for longer life
USP 2005 Dynamic
Multi-purpose machine for Morocco
ZRM 350
Road/rail machine for ballast bed cleaning without skeleton track
Key technology
URM 700
Continuous action track and turnout cleaning
EM30E
Two-axle self-propelled recording car for Japan
MTW 100 JBV
Four-axle motor tower car for Norway
APT 1500 RL
Road/rail welding robot for Italy
OBW 100
Bridge inspection vehicle
09-3D tamping simulator
Practical training for machine operators in a new dimension
Plasser 08-16 SH
more than 100 machines in operation worldwide
Key technology
KSP 2002 E-LP
Dynamic track stabiliser with integrated ballast profiling unit
SVM 1000
Track laying machine for Argentina
MAGE 75
New mast setting unit for Austria
Key technology
APT 1500 RA
Mobile fully automatic rail welding robot
09-3X-CW Dynamic
3-sleeper tamping technology for varying sleeper spacings
BDS 2000
Ballast Distribution System in Switzerland
RM 900 VB
Ballast cleaning with ballast recycling, supply of new ballast and track stabilisation
AHM 800 R
Formation rehabilitation machine for the Russian Federation
RM 802/FRM 802
Fastest system in the world for ballast bed and shoulder cleaning
SMD 80
Track laying from the assembly-line in Kazakhstan
EM140
Self-propelled recording car for Lithuania
SRM 500
Sand removal machine for Saudi Arabia
RM 900-HD 100
Ballast cleaning for high-speed lines in France
SSP 203
Ballast distributing and profiling machine in Brazil
Key technology
RM 95-800 W
An impact mill and a ballast washing plant upgrade the machine
Recording car series
Start of the redesigned series
WM 40 turnout installation machine
Installation and removal of turnout sections or track panels
APT 1500 R
First fully automatic welding robot
PM 1000 URM
Formation rehabilitation using 3 excavating chains, ballast recycling and insertion of an intermediate layer
SUZ 500 Universal
for Germany
DGS 90 N
for Brazil
Catenary renewal machine, MTW 10
Catenary renewal machine and MTW 10 for Brazil
09-3X 3-sleeper tamping machines
More than 100 continuous action tamping machines in operation worldwide
Unimat Super 08-32 4S
for Spain
Plasser Intelligent Control P-IC 2.0
Control and monitoring system
USP 2000 SWS
in Switzerland
RPM-RS-900
Formation rehabilitation, ballast bed cleaning, ballast recycling in one machine
New world record on ballasted track – the TGV Est achieved 547.8 km/h on 3rd April 2007. Numerous Plasser & Theurer machines were used to construct the line
DGS 62 N
Dynamic track stabiliser for Malaysia
TGC3
Self propelled recording car in the USA
TG 80
Track motor vehicle for Mexico
Unimat 09-475/4S
New output category for universal tamping machines for tracks and turnouts
RM 800 Super 3S
Ballast cleaning machine with infinitely variable excavating chain and 3 screens
BDS 2000
Further development of the system for ballast management
SWM 15
Fast and simple exchange of individual sleepers in Iran
GWM 150
Rail grinding machine in Chile
Key technology
RU 800 S
Largest combination machine integrating ballast cleaning and track relaying
Key technology
RMW 1500
First ballast cleaning machine with 2 excavating chains and 3 screens
BDS 2000
Ballast Distribution System in Lithuania
EC-5
Self propelled track recording car in the USA
BCR 100
Bridge inspection and repair vehicle
09-4X Dynamic Tamping Express
4-sleeper tamping machine with integrated track stabilisation
New turning resistance test rig for bogies in Linz
Unimat 09-32 4S Dynamic
for the first time with integrated dynamic track stabilisation
CAL curve laser system
Laser control used in track curves for the first time
RM 900 RT
High-capacity ballast cleaning machine with supply of new ballast
DGS 90 N
Dynamic track stabiliser for Kazakhstan
RPK 40
Gantry crane and transport wagon for turnouts and turnout sections
FUM 100.128
New standards for overhead line installation in Germany
SBM 250
Rail planing machine
BDS 2000
Ballast Distribution System in Latvia
Opening of the new ecological high-output paint shop in Linz
RM 95-700
Ballast cleaning machine for plain track with double screening unit
Monitoring system
for machine monitoring
SUZ 500 UVR
High-speed track relaying train with laying unit in 2-sleeper mode
UFM 160
Universal track recording car for speeds of up to 160 km/h
Catenary renewal machine
for China
SRM 500
Sand removal machine for Syria
PM 200-2R
Formation rehabilitation machine with integrated ballast washing plant
EM-SAT 120
operated in Germany
SVM 1000
Track laying in China
Tungsten-carbide tamping tines
Newly developed
Key technology
09-3X Dynamic Tamping Express
3-sleeper tamping machine with integrated track stabilisation
Laser control
of the 3-rail lifting of turnout tamping machines
RM 95-RT
High-capacity ballast cleaning machine in the Railway Group Standard of British Rail
APT 600
Mobile flash-butt welding machine with integrated rail tensioning unit
FGW 10.010, A 10.031
FGW 10.010 Motorised platform car and A 10.031 assembly car for Switzerland
DGS 62 N
for Norway
THS 2000
Sleeper exchange system
PBR 400 R
in Thailand
Unimat Combi 08-275
in Denmark - combined turnout tamping machine with ballast plough
Machines now supplied to 100 countries
RPM 2002
Formation rehabilitation machine with ballast recycling
SWM 12
Sleeper exchange machine
Unimat Sprinter MF
Universal tamping machine for spot fault elimination
SSP JUNIOR
Ballast distributing and profiling machine
EM-SAT 120
with GPS direction finding for exact track measuring before tamping
TSV 21 GP
Relaying train with lengthwise transport of old and new sleepers in France
HOBW
Track motor vehicle for Denmark
AHM 800 R
for Poland
Rail fastening collection car
Magnetic
Unimat 08-4x4 4S-RT
First machine in the new Railway Group Standard of British Rail
Key technology
RM 900
High-capacity ballast cleaning machine with supply of new ballast
UFM 120
Universal self-propelled track recording car
APT 500
series continues to win worldwide recognition
AFKM
Automatic track finishing machine
VM 250 Jumbo
Vacuum scraper-excavator
SMD 80
in Finland
May 1997: handover of the 11,000th heavy-duty machine (09-32 CSM) to October Railway
PBR 400 U-RS
in Denmark
PTS 90
Dynamic track stabiliser for the USA
Catenary renewal machine
for Italy
Unimat 09-16 4S
Continuous action 1-sleeper tamping machine for turnouts
DAR 8 channel recorder
with PC interface
UVP 2002
High-speed track relaying machine
WM 500 U Turnout installation machine
careful treatment of entire turnouts
Catenary renewal train
Complete for Austria
GWM 250
in South Korea, Malaysia and Portugal
Key technology
09-3X Tamping Express
First continuous action 3-sleeper tamping machine
USP 4000-2B
Universal ballast distributing and profiling machine with 2 sweeper brushes
RM 802
Ballast cleaning machine with integrated supply of new ballast
PDB 600
Sweeper machine for Mauritania
Key technology
AHM 800 R
Formation rehabilitation, ballast bed cleaning, ballast recycling
Unimat Junior
Perfect modular design system for local and regional areas
K 355 APT LKW
in Japan
Key technology
VM 150 Jumbo
vacuum scraper-excavator: new technology for track maintenance
KSP 2001
Combined stabilising and profiling machine for Japan
PM 150
Formation rehabilitation using cement stabilisation
SWM 200
Single sleeper exchange system in the USA
EM 20 UD
Track recording car for underground operation
USP 6000
Universal ballast distributing and profiling machine in Austria
Micro controller and data bus systems
are introduced in the machine control
DGS 62 N
First machine ever to perform dynamic track stabilisation on Shinkansen lines in Japan
SMD 80
High-speed track relaying train for Germany
MFS 100 S
Material conveyor and hopper unit with additional ballast distributing device for uniform ballasting
SBM 250
rail planing machine with non-contacting rail profile measurement
Key technology
Unimat 09-32 4S
First continuous action 2-sleeper tamping machine for turnouts
Introduction of the quality assurance system according to ISO 9001
09-Dynamic
with integrated ballast profiling and dynamic track stabilisation
Combined longitudinal level and alignment laser
for tracks and turnouts
SVV 100
Insertion of a formation protective layer under the skeleton track
Key technology
WTW 40
Turnout transport wagon
EM 250
Track measuring and testing coach with non-contacting measuring systems for speeds up to 250 km/h
MTW 100.013-2
First four-axle motor tower car with freely turning elevating work platform
Key technology
BDS Ballast Distribution System
enables enormous ballast savings
DGS 72 NR
for France
WM 26
Track and turnout renewal device
GPS
Testing the use of GPS for track maintenance for the first time
SBM 140
for Brazilian heavy haul railways
TIK System Plasser-Wiebe
Thermic vegetation control on and around the track using Infra-Plus application
Key technology
Unimat 08-475/4S
Universal tamping machine (3-rail lifting and 4-rail tamping)
New world record. France: On 18th May 1990, a TGV achieves 515.3 km/h. The track geometry was again prepared by Plasser & Theurer machines
Key technology
MTW 100.017
First catenary renewal train for installation with final tension
09-90
Continuous action levelling tamping machine with integrated ballast profiling
PM 200-2
with new data bus system is put into operation in Germany
Super C.A.T.
Continuous action maintenance with integrated ballast profiling
ALC
Automatic guiding computer to control the measuring systems of tamping machines
PBR 400
Ballast distributing machine in Brazil
EM-SAT
First on German lines
K 355 APT Superstretch
New welding technology using the additional pulling device Superstretch for North America
SVM 1000
Track laying machine for Iran
Key technology
PA 1-20 ES gantry crane
with single-sleeper laying device
KEV 312
for Germany
Key technology
Unimat 08-275 3S
Perfection and cost-efficiency thanks to synchronous 3-rail lifting
1st May 1988: world speed record by Intercity Experimental ICE at 406.9 km/h on the new line Würzburg-Fulda. Track work carried out primarily using Plasser & Theurer machines
Key technology
RM 800
High-capacity ballast cleaning machine with 2 screens
UUM
Soil probing machine
Key technology
WM 22
Turnout and track renewal machine
KVP 2000
Continuous action sleeper-crib consolidating machine
Key technology
EM-SAT
Track survey car
SUM Q
High-speed track relaying machine in Germany
SSP 110 SW
Ballast profiling machine with ballast hopper for turnout maintenance
FRM 100
High-capacity shoulder cleaning machine for the USA
PK 150 gantry unit
in Austria
OBW 10/MTW 10
Track motor vehicle and motor tower cars in Portugal
K 355 APT-LKW
Road-rail flash-butt welding machine
08-16 DN
Large-scale order of 13 machines for Algeria
GVA
Combined level and line on-board computer
EM 200
Track recording car for the Italian State Railway FS
08-75 ZW
Road/rail universal tamping machine
USP 303
Ballast distributing and profiling machine in Poland
DGS 62 N
Dynamic track stabiliser
Key technology
PM 200
First formation rehabilitation machine to work in assembly-line mode in one pass without disrupting the traffic on the adjacent tracks
SUM 80 G
Track laying in Australia
PK 250
Gantry unit for entire track panels
EM 120
First self-propelled track recording car for Hungarian Railways
GWM 440
Rail grinding machine
Key technology
09-CSM
First continuous action levelling, lining and tamping machine
Unimat
Universal levelling, lining and tamping machine with individually tilting double tines for tracks and turnouts
Key technology
STRAIT
Rail joint bending device with microprocessor control
SSP 110
Fast ballast profiling machine
Key technology
MFS 40
First material conveyor and hopper units (system Plasser-Knape)
VDM 800 K
Sleeper crib and sleeper-end consolidating machine
GPC 50
Railway general purpose crane for ÖBB
08-75
Turnout tamping machine
SUM 801
High-speed track relaying machine in Tanzania
SBM 111
Combined rail planing and grinding machine
Controlmaster 08-32
Tamping machine and control car separated for the first time
26th February 1981: record-breaking run of an SNCF TGV train at 380 km/h. The line was built and prepared using Plasser & Theurer track laying machines (System Framafer)
DGS 42 N
Dynamic track stabiliser
ZRM 60
Road/rail ballast cleaning machine in Hungary
SUM 1000
High-speed track relaying machine in Italy
OBW 10.029
Catenary inspection car
MTM 700
Road/rail levelling, lining and tamping machine
Opening of the new factory of Plasser Australia Pty. Ltd. in St. Marys near Sydney; opening of the new factory in Brazil
RM 80
High-capacity ballast cleaning machine
DGS 32 N
Dynamic track stabiliser
SMD 80
Track relaying train in France
JVK 1200
Panel laying system for the Budapest Transport Authority
EM 20 U
First track recording car for underground operation
SRM 500
Sand removal machine for Egypt
08 series
Machines in articulated design with standard railway vehicle features
08-32/275 (System Framafer)
for maintaining tracks and turnouts in one operation
UST 79
ZRM 79
Universal ballast cleaning machine working on-track and off-track
K 355 APT
with integrated trimming device
SCPV
Panel laying crane in Great Britain
SSP 103
Ballast distributing and profiling machine
ZRM 77
Universal ballast cleaning machine working on-track and off-track
WAPS
Combination of a jib crane and an electric flash-butt welding unit
SBM 100
Rail planing machine for mobile track planing and grinding
MINIMA
Lightweight tamping machine
Key technology
SSP 100
Fast ballast profiling machine
Key technology
DGS
First dynamic track stabiliser in regular service
GWM 220
Rail grinding machine
GPL 72 J, TJC 60
Production of railway cranes at Plasser Great Britain; crane vehicles for BR
UNIMA
Mobile tampers
SUZ 500 (US)
High-speed track relaying train
07 Quattromatic
Further development of the track tamping machine
DGS prototype
Testing phase of dynamic track stabilisation
On-board computer
for superelevation and lining values
PBR series
Profiling and ballast distributing machines
RM 74 U
First ballast cleaning machine ever to perform continuous action ballast cleaning of turnouts and tracks
Insertion of sand-gravel mixtures
using the RM 74 UHR ballast cleaning machine
EM 80
Start of the successful series
New work unit production shop in Linz
OBW 6
Track motor vehicle
USP 4000 C
Universal ballast distributing and profiling machine
OBW 8
Track motor vehicle
Plassermatic 07-275
Levelling, lining and tamping machine for turnouts
Key technology
EM 50
First electronic track recording car
Key technology
K 355 PT
Mobile flash-butt welding machine
SSP 70 series
Ballast distributing and profiling machines
More branches founded abroad: Brazil, Japan
SUZ 350 UP2/3/4
Track relaying trains
OBW 10
Track motor vehicle
Key technology
07 series
First tamping machines in standard railway vehicle design with tamping unit between the axles
New plant for Plasser American Corporation in Chesapeake, Virginia, USA, and Plasser Española in Spain
RM 63
Fully hydraulic ballast cleaning machine
MTM-Serie
Road/rail tamping machines
Expansion of Linz factory: final assembly plant, welding plant
PQRS (Plasser Quick Relaying System)
Track laying with gantry cranes in India
Key technology
Start of the production of large cleaning machines
Branch opening in India
SUZ 2000 UP1
First high-speed track relaying train using the assembly-line method
AL 250
Automatic lining machine
MDZ mechanised maintenance train: first machine to perform complete track maintenance in one operation on Austrian Federal Railways
VDM 800 series
Consolidating machines
Key technology
formation protective layer
RM 61 ballast cleaning machine: first track-bound machine ever to install a formation protective layer consisting of gravel sand
USP 3000 C
Ballast distributing and profiling machine with continuous ballast collection
Field study on infrared levelling device
The track is lifted and fixed using the screw-shaped worms which are shown in a lifted state in the background. Initially, infrared levelling was problematic due to the extensive scattering. That is why the VKR 04 was equipped with a chord levelling device. In 1965, the VKR 05 and the Duomatic were fitted with an infrared levelling system. The light was shaded at the transmitter with tubes to reduce scattering.
Key technology
Duomatic
The first Duomatic 2-sleeper tamping machine in the world enabled cost-efficient operation during short track possessions.
Plassermatic 275
Turnout tamping machine
AL 203
Automatic lining machine
KMX 06
Mine tamping machine
AL 202
First automatic lining machine with 2-chord measuring technology
Branch opening in Purkersdorf near Vienna; extension of the foreign branches: Factory in Freilassing (Germany); Italy
KMX
Mine tamping machine
RM 62
Fully hydraulic ballast cleaning machine
BKV 142
Consolidating machine
Key technology
WE 75/275
Turnout tamping machine with two tamping units (with tilting tamping tines)
GLR 123
Off-track ballast cleaning machine
Plassermatic VKR 04-Spezial
First sound-proofed Plassermatic VKR 04-Spezial at the permanent way exhibition in Elst (Netherlands).
Subsidiary in the USA
VKR 04
First levelling tamping machine in the world
More branches were opened in the Federal Republic of Germany, France and Great Britain
Key technology
RM 61
Fully hydraulic ballast cleaning machine
FR 53
Shoulder cleaning machine
GLR 120
Off-track ballast cleaning machine
Branch opening in South Africa
SV 51
Ballast distributing and profiling machine
New factory on the industrial estate in Linz; first subsidiary in Canada
Key technology
VKR 03
High-capacity tamping machine
Export of the first tamping machines to Great Britain and the USA
Export of tamping machines to five countries
VKR 01
Tamping machine in cantilever design: The VKR 01 was the first series-produced Plasser & Theurer machine. The first tamping machine that was exported was delivered to the Federal Republic of Germany.
Start of series production; export of the first tamping machine to the Federal Republic of Germany
Application for further basic patents on the non-synchronous pressure vibration tamping
Key technology
HGL
First hydraulic track tamping machine
Start of production with a staff of nine men; non-synchronous pressure vibration tamping: basic patent applications