All over the world, customers have confidence in this well-founded know-how when they require turnouts systems for highest speeds, highest axle loads or shortest train intervals and complex requirements for individual solutions.
- 1851: Foundation of the company
- 1866: Start of industrial turnout production
- 1953: Start of export activities
- 1980: Patent on AMS welding
- 1988: Market introduction of movable crossings (MPF)
- 1990: Start of internationalization
- 1992-1992: Privatization of VAE
- 1998: Successful defense against hostile take-over
- 2000: Plug and play turnout
- 2002: Start of industrial HYTRONICS production
- 2003: New owner; 100% voestalpine
- 2011: Splitting of the Austrian subsidiary, VAE Eisenbahnsysteme GmbH, in the newly founded voestalpine Weichensysteme GmbH and voestalpine HYTRONICS GmbH
- 2014: Rebranding/renaming of voestalpine HYTRONICS Group in voestalpine SIGNALING
- 2018: Bundeling of the railway infrastructure competences (high-tech turnouts, high-quality rails and intelligent, tailor-made signaling solutions) under the joint "Railway Systems" brand
- 2020: voestalpine Railway Systems GmbH was founded