Our history

Foundation

The beginnings are closely related to the post-war modernization and reconstruction of railroad transportation in our republic. Today’s AŽD Praha owes its traditions to three founding companies

• ČSD – Construction and installation of telecommunication and signaling systems
• ČSD – Production of telecommunication and signaling systems
• ČSD – Central supply warehouse

These three companies were founded in 1954. This is why this year is said to be the date of our company foundation. In 1958 the founding companies were merged together and named “Production of telecommunication and signaling systems”.
The name Automation of railroad transportation (AŽD) was first used in 1961. As an independent company the AŽD Praha was founded ten years later and the Slovakian part AŽD Bratislava was connected to it.

In 1993 the private company AŽD Praha was created. The company manages only Czech capital and at present is the biggest Czech company operating in the field of signaling technology on the Czech market.

Today

Today AŽD Praha has about 2 000 employees. Besides its company’s registered office where its Head office is situated, its Prague production factory, its Technika factory and service division of telecommunication and signaling technology the company also has a Prague division of teleinformatics, a Brno division of road technology automation and an assembly and production factory in Brno, Olomouc and Kolin. Three subsidiary companies operate in Slovakia: AŽD - W Poprad, s. r. o., AŽD Kosice, a. s. and PROJEKT SIGNAL s. r. o. Bratislava. Other subsidiary companies are in Serbia (AŽD Saobracajni sistemi, d. o. o. Beograd), in Bulgaria (Balkan SAST) and Kazakhstan (AŽD Kazachstan s. r. o.).