Switzerland is not enough for Stadler Rail

The company from eastern Switzerland dominates the home market. In order to be successful in the long term, the pace must also pick up abroad.

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Switzerland is not enough Once again, Peter Spuhler has won a home game. Winning the largest contract in Swiss railway history against competitors Alstom and Siemens is good news for the company.

In his plant at the head office in Bussnang, Thurgau, he ensures a good share of the basic workload for around ten years. Because even though Stadler had a record high order backlog of 18 billion francs at the middle of the year, supplies must be constantly replenished in order to continue to generate sales and profit and thus secure and create jobs.

If you look at the results of the past few years, you can see that with the exception of the SBB order for double-deckers for east-west traffic, which went to Bombardier, Stadler has won all major tenders in Switzerland. But that is not enough.

Stadler is globally active, has plants in several European countries and in the USA, is rolling out expansion plans in less predictable CIS countries, and also wants to gain a foothold in Asia. In order to keep this organization with 13,000 employees running, Stadler has to get permanent orders outside of Switzerland as well.

Despite stumbling blocks such as an allegedly false electronic signature under the offer for the billion-euro contract from ÖBB, the Stadler has so far been successful. The next success would be if Stadler could finally sell his high-speed train, which was developed at a high price for SBB, abroad.