French group Mafelec Team has acquired TSL-Escha, a German company which produces door opening buttons, LED signal lights, buzzers and indicator and display devices for trains and buses.
Catalunya’s Ministry of Business & Employment and Alstom have signed an agreement to promote actions for industrialisation and employability, including adapting training to meet Alstom’s needs and facilitating the relocation of workers affected by company closures in the region.
DTi Device Technologies’ Spring-Fast SL-FST wire protection grommet edging for rail applications has met EN45545-2 requirements R22 and R23 for hazard levels 1, 2 and 3 for flame smoke and toxicity, as well as US and worldwide certifications. This enables manufacturers serving both North American and European markets to implement unified design specifications that include grommet edging.
Trainline has appointed Martin Sheehan to the newly created role of Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, responsible for Government Affairs, Industry Relations and Communications in all key markets across Europe. He joins from communications consultancy Portland.
Industrial Networks has expanded its INetRAIL software with CRBill, a mobile and console-based car repair billing module for wagon maintenance facilities which generates validated estimates according to AAR billing standards as well as custom price masters. ‘Our effort is in response to significant railroad and shop client feedback that we extend our current INetRAIL functionality to address their complex railcar maintenance needs. Creating a user-friendly solution that offers the industry’s first truly end-to-end platform is a need in the industry, and we expect to have that ready for deployment by early 2022’, said INet President Jimmy Finster.
Alstom has announced an ‘unprecedented’ recruitment and growth plan in Spain, where it expects to take on more than 200 new staff in Q4 at its sites in Barcelona and Madrid.
Dutch rail and automotive inspection automation technology company AutoFill Technologies has secured €2·6m in pre-series A funding in a round led by Innovation Industries, with participation from Deeptech Labs, former COO of Microsoft Rick Belluzzo, and former CEO of Audi Bram Schot. ‘AutoFill’s technology removes the limitations presented by human involvement, significantly raising safety and accuracy standards, and making huge financial savings for the enterprise’, said CEO and co-founder Gideon Richheimer.
Sustainalytics has completed the annual environment, social, governance evaluation of the CAF Group, which has been assigned a Low Risk rating for its commitment to ESG and Best Practices.
Travel technology company Open Destinations has appointed Olivier Bressard as Vice-President Sales for Rail, overseeing development and marketing of the Rail Studio reservations suite. ‘Railways are looking to evolve their commercial model beyond selling seats, boosting revenues by packaging, and making services and ancillaries available through their sales channels’, said Bressard. ‘Open Destinations has world-class technology which will appeal to operators around the world.’
Hungarian national railway group MÁV has deployed USU’s platform for the company-wide management of software licenses. This is intended to provide greater cost transparency, especially for software from major suppliers such as IBM, Adobe, Microsoft, VMWare and Oracle. Implementation was done by USU’s local partner LicenseCore.