Complete vehicle competence for rail and industrial vehicles

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We at HÖRMANN Vehicle Engineering support the customer through the entire development process chain for rail, road and special vehicles. As a globally active engineering partner, we offer complete vehicle competence from the initial idea to the finished prototype and series production run. The HÖRMANN Group employs more than 200 qualified employees in the field of vehicle engineering - most of them engineers.

Our customers are primarily from the rail vehicle and automotive industries. With our complete vehicle competence, we are one of the global market leaders in the development of rail vehicles. We set trends in the field of lightweight construction as well as in the use of new materials and in production optimization. 

Our performance profile:

  • Development of rail and road vehicles, including locomotives, streetcars, local trains, double-decker trains, high-speed trains, motorcycles, buses and special-purpose vehicles
  • Production planning and fixture development for the automotive sector
  • Technology and process consulting from the idea to the finished product

 

We are members of various networks:

  • HZwo (Eco CC) - Innovation cluster for fuel cell and hydrogen
  • Thermopre e.V. - Fiber composites for mass production
  • DMG - German Mechanical Engineering Society, Platform for Innovative Railway Systems
  • VDB - Association of the German Railway Industry
  • BTS Rail Saxony - The railroad technology cluster in Central Germany

 

Use our competence in lightweight construction and drive technology for modern mobility concepts!

From the idea to the series

Automotive 

Rail Vehicles
Project Management Project Management
Conception Conception
Industrial Design Industrial Design

Mechanical Development
Electrical Development

Mechanical Development
Electrical Development
Control Development 
Calculation and Simulation  Calculation and Simulation
  RAMS and LCC
Fixture Development Production Planning and Fixture Development
  Test and Commissioning
  Approval Management

 

Management

Managing Director

Frank Salzwedel

The graduate engineer has been CEO of HÖRMANN Vehicle Engineering since 2017. Prior to that, he was Managing Director of Voith Engineering Services and Leadec Engineering from 2012, whose development division for rail and road vehicles was taken over by Hörmann. After studying technical mechanics, he began his professional career as a development engineer for compressors and later for metal components at the automotive supplier Scherdel. From 1998, he was division manager and authorised signatory in the engineering department at IVM and since 2004 at the HÖRMANN Group.

Headquarter

Chemnitz

branch offices:

  • Dresden
  • Dessau
  • Munich

HÖRMANN Vehicle Engineering GmbH is a part of the HÖRMANN Group

HÖRMANN Vehicle Engineering GmbH is part of a robust group - the HÖRMANN Group. Since the company was founded in 1955, the HÖRMANN Group has grown continuously. Under the umbrella of HÖRMANN Holding GmbH & Co. KG, 27 subsidiaries operate with a high degree of entrepreneurial initiative and independence in the business segments Automotive, Communication, Engineering and Services.

The aim of the Group is to provide customers with economical, innovative and sustainable solutions and services that offer them clear advantages and clear benefits. To this end, the Group employs around 3,300 highly qualified employees and draws on broadly diversified and networked knowledge from a wide range of technology areas.

By offering diversified, highly qualified technology and services, the Group aims to be independent of economic influences and thus minimize the risk for the companies and their employees.

Such thinking and acting creates the freedom to develop perfect customer solutions with vision, motivation and passion. A concept that has constantly proved itself in the success and continuous growth of the HÖRMANN Group.

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»Identify potential, shape growth and act on the basis of a clear strategy.«

Motto of Hans Hörmann, company founder

HÖRMANN Vehicle Engineering is part of a strong group with 27 companies

The companies of the HÖRMANN Group are always in the best strategic and logistical position for their customers.

The interactive map shows the locations of the HÖRMANN Group in Germany.