Expansion of main factory, Linz: new assembly hall, welding plant.

SUZ 2000: first high-speed track relaying train using the assembly line method working on DB.

MDZ mechanised maintenance train - for the first time complete track maintenance in one operation on Austrian Federal Railways.

Extension of the foreign branches: Factory in Freilassing (Germany); Italy.

Opening of the branch in Purkersdorf near Vienna.

First automatic lining machine with two chord measuring technique.

First switch tamping machines WE 75 and WE 275 (with tilting tamping tools).

The first sound-proofed Plassermatic VKR 04 special at the permanent way exhibition in Elst (Netherlands).

Subsidiary company in the USA.

VKR 04: first levelling, tamping machine in the world.

More branches opened in the Federal Republic of Germany, France and Great Britain.