Pafawag (Państwowa Fabryka Wagonów) ( English: National Rail Carriage Factory) is a Polish locomotive manufacturer based in

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. The company became part of

Adtranz Adtranz was a multi-national rail transportation equipment manufacturer with facilities concentrated in Europe and the US. The company, legally known as ABB Daimler-Benz Transportation, was created in 1996 as a joint venture between ABB and Daim ...

in 1997 as Adtranz Pafawag, and in 2001 part of

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. .

History

The factory opened in 1833 as Linke-Hofmann-Werke, Breslau, and became one of the major production centres for rolling stock in Europe. By the end of the

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most of the factory had been destroyed, and after the War the city of Breslau became part of

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. In 1953 the company was renamed Pafawag. In 1953 the company produced the EP-02, the first Polish

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manufactured after

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. In the late 1980s to mid 1990s the company experienced increasing economic problems due to lack of orders causing loss of production and lower employment. In 1997 ABB DaimlerBenz Transportation (ADtranz) acquired a majority share in the company. The Adtranz group (DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems after 1999) was bought by

in 2001; the Wroclaw plant was merged with another Bombardier owned plant based in

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to form Bombardier Transportation Polska Sp. z o.o. The plant manufactures the bodyshells of Bombardier locomotives as well as other sub-components for the Bombardier Transportation group. In 2015 Bombardier contracted Panattoni Europe to construct an additional manufacturing hall, initially to be used for the construction of

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's ICx trains.

Products

The main products: * locomotives, * bodies, * frames, * running gear for locomotives. Pafawag was the producer of first Polish modern "fast locomotive" EP09 .

Pafawag types

Adtranz-Pafawag types

References

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