Robel (inc Plasser-Robel)
Track Maintenance Systems
The Georg Robel File Factory, Munich, Bavaria, Germany was taken over by Karl Langkammerer in 1901 and the revised company started to make hand-operated rail track construction machines.
By the 1920s, Robel was a major name in railway track screw fittings, securely fastening the rails to the sleepers.
Following WW2, Robel went on to develop a range of self-propelled rail machines for both construction and track maintenance including rail loading trains, tampers and mobile workshops, which they are distributing throughout Europe.
In 1989 the company premises in Munich literally reach their limits – Robel starts to gradually move all its divisions to the railway town of Freilassing, creating a purpose-built facility for both its manufacturing & its service operational base and from 1999, the business became known as ROBEL Bahnbaumaschinen GmbH, now employing around 500 people.
Product Sets
Hand Operated Machines & Tools for Rail
Whatever the task in track construction, ROBEL has the solution. The company produces over 100 different types of hand-operated machines and tools which are in operation in about 70 countries worldwide – solid in quality and always with measurable benefit for operator and infrastructure companies. It is the competence of a century of work on track as well as the continuous pursuit of client-oriented solutions that lead to easy-to-handle, safe machines.
ROBEL provides hand-operated machines and tools for rail:
- drilling
- cutting
- grinding
- stressing/pulling/bending
- wrenching
- clipping
- lifting/loading/transporting
- tamping
- securing/measuring
Track Maintenance Vehicles
For more than 60 years ROBEL has been selling track maintenance vehicles and systems to public and private rail operators all over the world. Close cooperation with customers combined with expertise and inventiveness leads to intelligent technical solutions for topics such as worker protection, environment and tight time slots. Rail exchange systems ensure that the rails arrive at the track fast, safe and in exactly the high quality they left the roller plant. Mobile Maintenance Systems - the workshops on wheels - raise operator comfort to a new level.
Transport Systems are custom-made to fulfil multiple tasks in sensible environments such as tunnels and urban traffic.
ROBEL Designs and Constructs
- Rail exchange systems
- Rail loaders
- Transport systems
- Catenary maintenance vehicles
- Mobile maintenance systems
With the merger of Deutsche Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen GmbH and the ROBEL Business Unit Service & Customer Service to form Plasser Robel Services GmbH (PRS), the largest service organization of the Plasser & Theurer Group was created on 1st January 2022.
With 250 employees in Munich, Opladen and Freilassing, PRS delivers concentrated service: We look after the entire life cycle of Plasser & Theurer and ROBEL rail-bound vehicles and machines. Whatever is needed to keep your construction sites running, we are your go-to service provider for servicing your large machinery. Whatever is needed to keep your construction sites running, we are your one-stop shop for servicing your large machinery.
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