Ganz Electro
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| Private company (former state company) | |
| Industry | transport vehicle manufacturing iron and steel manufacturing |
| Founded | 1845, Budapest, Habsburg Empire |
| Founders | Ábrahám Ganz |
| Headquarters |
Budapest, Habsburg Empire (1845-1867) Budapest, Austria-Hungary (1867-1918) Budapest, Hungary (1918-1949) |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Ábrahám Ganz Károly Zipernowsky Ottó Bláthy Miksa Déri András Mechwart Kálmán Kandó Donát Bánki János Csonka |
| Products |
tramcars trains ships electrical generators |
| Owner |
Ábrahám Ganz and his family (1845-1947) State of Hungary (1946-1949) |
| Subsidiaries |
Ganz Danubius (ships) Ganz Acélszerkezet (bridge steel structures) Ganz Transelektro (high voltage equipment) |
| Website | http://ganzdata.hu/ |
The Ganz Works or Ganz (Hungarian: Ganz vállalatok or Ganz Művek, English: Ganz enterprises or Ganz companies) was a group of companies between 1845 and 1949 in Budapest, Hungary. It is probably best known for the manufacture of tramcars, but was also a pioneer in the application of three-phase alternating current to electric railways. Ganz also made ships (Ganz Danubius), bridge steel structures (Ganz Acélszerkezet) and high voltage equipment (Ganz Transelektro). Some engineers employed by Ganz were Károly Zipernowsky, Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri, Kálmán Kandó, Donát Bánki and János Csonka. The company is named after Ábrahám Ganz, the founder and the manager of the company. In 2006, the power transmission and distribution sectors of Ganz Transelektro were acquired by Crompton Greaves, but still doing business under the Ganz brand name, while the unit dealing with electric traction (propulsion and control systems for electric vehicles) was acquired by Škoda Transportation and is now a part of Škoda Electric.
Before 1919, the company built ocean liners, dreadnought type battleships and submarines, power plants, automobiles and many types of fighter aircraft.
The company was founded by Abraham Ganz in 1844. He established his own iron foundry in Buda in the Kingdom of Hungary. Consequently, this factory played an important role in building the infrastructure of the Hungarian Kingdom and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At this time the agricultural machines, steam-locomotives, pumps and the railway carriages were the main products. At the beginning of the 20th century, 60 to 80% of the factory's products were sold for export.
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