Type Rail industry - Ceased operations 2010 | Industry Rail Founded 1979 Parent organization Franklin Electric | |
Fate Insolvent as of January 2010 Key people Managing Director : Wolfgang Rutkowske Services Rail infrastructure, rail freight, others |
The EBW group was a rail industry company consisting of several individual companies. It was declared insolvent in January 2010.
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Group
The groups primary business was rail infrastructure and maintenance. The company also specialised in rail safety aspects of infrastructural work, specifically in terms of non-railway based workers performing construction tasks near or on main lines.
EBW Eisenbahn-bewachungs GmbH
EBW Eisenbahn-bewachungs was the main branch of the company, undertaking both financing and the rail freight operations of the group.
The freight operating company known as EBW cargo was headquartered in Würzburg, and focused on infrastructure trains, as well as leasing EBW owned locomotives and rolling stock (wagons), and organising and managing rail head fed site logistics.
IFE
IFE (Ingenieursleistungen für Eisenbahnen GmbH translation :"Engineering services for railways limited") was an engineering firm - specialising in railway construction including catenary.
IAS
IAS GmbH was a maintenance company, providing services such as trackside vegetation management as well as landscape gardening.
VE-log
VE-log GmbH employsd approximately 60 people in the areas of land management, bulk materials and transportation, including recycling. Road transportation logistics is also performed by this company.
Locomotives
EBW operated a number of rebuilt, former Deutsche Bahn locomotives.
Wagons
The company holds and operates its own wagons - typically those designed for construction solids (with a typical capacity of ~40m3); designs suitable for moisture sensitive solids, conveyor belt and other controlled discharge methods are kept.