WINDHOFF Bahn- und Anlagentechnik GmbH, Rheine, Germany is a worldwide supplier of a broad range of high-tech products with focus on rail vehicles and railway and shunting technology. The companies success is based on the realisation of customer-specific demands due to a perfectly designed modular system which achieves all appropriate certification criteria and provides for maximum customer value. The vehicle technology focuses on rail vehicles and dedicated accessories for main lines, branch lines, commuter lines and metros. Windhoff rail vehicles are successfully used world-wide for the construction and maintenance of rail tracks, overhead catenary systems, and dedicated designs serve as fire-fighting and rescue vehicles. Railway technology including lifting equipment and shunting systems is another main sales area at Windhoff. Railway depots around the world have selected workshop equipment made by WINDHOFF. Besides the production of lifting jacks and complex lifting installations, work platforms, turntables, bogie measuring stands, bogie drops, bogie scales, wheelset lathes, wheelset change assemblies and traverses, the company also provides full planning and system management services for major construction projects. The shunting sector covers dedicated solutions for state or industrial railway operations and for the special demands of quayside railways, starting with simple rope winches, rope traction and shunting systems with slingchains as well as solutions with wheelset carts or buffer wagons. In addition to that customers can select from a range of rail-bound shunters with different drive systems. Rail/Road shunters - battery-powered units for workshops and depots, larger diesel-powered units for loading lines as well 2-way lorries for track applications and a new generation of smaller diesel-powered shunting locomotives - complement the choice of shunting solutions.