At a glance

We are a privately owned company controlled by Swiss entrepreneurs who want to develop the Group with a long-term perspective and a focus on innovation, quality and customer service.

Innovating electrical and electronic safety components and solutions for railway, renewable energy, DC grid, and other high-power industrial systems for more than a century.

Sécheron Hasler Group is a leading global supplier of electrical and electronic safety components and solutions and traction power systems for the railway industry and also provides solutions for renewable energy, DC grid, and other industrial systems.

Headquartered in Switzerland, Sécheron Hasler Group is independent and privately-owned by a team of entrepreneurs committed to long-term sustainability through technological innovation, superior quality, and unrivalled customer service. We answer to you, our customers, first!

With more than 1 300 employees worldwide, we are found wherever our customers are around the globe, positioning us to supply products approved in our customers’ countries or markets and deliver supply chain and customer services locally. We have products in service in all countries where railway, mass transit, and high-power industrial equipment are found.

At Sécheron Hasler Group we pride ourselves on developing and maintaining deep knowledge and experience-based know-how within our organization in all fields critical to our business, from electrical, electronics, and software engineering to materials science and manufacturing processes.

As of 31.12.2023

2023 KEY FIGURES

Sécheron employees

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A history of innovation in the rail industry, pioneering railway technologies.

Our founding companies, Sécheron SA and HaslerRail AG, boast a 140-year history of innovation in the rail industry, pioneering railway technologies. Today, Sécheron Hasler Group draws on this extensive experience to develop and customize products and solutions compliant with local standards on markets worldwide.

1879

Société Anonyme des Atelier de Sécheron

Set-up by Alfred de Meuron of a small workshop for electrical appliances in an area of Geneva city called Sécheron.

1887

Hasler AG Bern

First production of railway speedometer by Gustav Adolf Hasler in Bern, activity that became few years later Hasler AG.

1969

BBC-Sécheron

The company ”Société Anonyme des Atelier de Sécheron” is taken over by the swiss BBC (Brown Bovery Corporation) to become then BBC-Sécheron.

1989

ASCOM Hasler AG

The Hasler activity is taken over by ASCOM to become ASCOM Hasler AG.

ABB-Sécheron

The Swedish ASEA and the Swiss BBC merged to found the ABB group, leading to the change of our company into ABB-Sécheron.

1991

Sécheron Hasler CZ

Sécheron SA set up a joint venture with CKD in Prague, focussed on traction components.
Sécheron SA takes over CKD’s shares of CKD-Sécheron joint venture, and create Sécheron Tchequie.

2005

Sécheron Hasler Group

Vertical split of Sécheron SA into Sécheron SA (Components & Systems) and HaslerRail AG (Electronics)
Sécheron SA and HaslerRail AG are bought by Sécheron Hasler Holding owned by a group of industrial entrepreneurs based in Switzerland.

2006