Pesa SA
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| Industry | Rail vehicle manufacturing |
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| Predecessor | The Repair Workshop of the Prussian Eastern Railway (until 1920), ZNTK Bydgoszcz (Bydgoszcz Rolling Stock Repair Shops) (until 2001) |
| Founded | 1851 |
| Headquarters | Bydgoszcz, Poland |
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Key people
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Tomasz Zaboklicki (President & General Director) |
| Products |
Locomotives Intercity and commuter trains Trams |
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Number of employees
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3700 |
| Subsidiaries | ZNTK Mińsk Mazowiecki (Rolling Stock Repair Shops in Mińsk Mazowiecki) |
| Website | www.pesa.pl/index.php/en/ |
Pesa (Pojazdy Szynowe Pesa Bydgoszcz) is a company manufacturing based in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The name ‘Pesa’ derives from the initials PS which stand for Pojazdy Szynowe, ‘railway vehicles’ in Polish. Pesa is a successor to the Bydgoszcz repair shops of PKP Polskie Koleje Państwowe, Polish State Railways. From the 1950s until 1998 the repair shops operated under the name ZNTK Bydgoszcz, Zakłady Naprawcze Taboru Kolejowego, Repair Shop for Railway Rolling Stock’in Bydgoszcz.
For most of its history the Bydgoszcz shop overhauled and repaired steam locomotives and freight cars. After the collapse in 1989 of the Communist regime in Poland the ZNTK Bydgoszcz repair shop was spun off in 1991 as an independent company. This led to a re-thinking of the firm’s activities, and in 2001 the company was renamed Pojazdy Szynowe Pesa Spółka Akcyjna Holding (its present name) and its activities were re-oriented away from repair, to the construction of new railway rolling stock.
This transformation of Pesa’s activities has been very successful. Since 2001 Pesa has secured contracts to supply new Light rail vehicles (LRV’s, trams) to Warsaw, Gdańsk and other cities in Poland, Hungary, Germany and Kazakhstan; and both electric and diesel multiple unit trains (EMUs and DMUs) to operators in Poland, Italy, Kazakhstan and Germany. Pesa’s most noteworthy contracts are: (1) a May 29, 2009 contract worth 1.5bn złoty ($460 million) for 186 trams for Warsaw, Poland to replace 40 percent of that city’s fleet, and (2) on September 19, 2012 Pesa signed two framework agreements with DB, Deutsche Bahn, German Railways to supply up to 470 Diesel multiple unit (DMU) trains for regional and local services, with a total value of up to €1.2bn ($1.5 billion).
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