2024.09.25

Prolan Zrt. was awarded with the "UNIFE SME Award" at the 14th InnoTrans international transport technology exhibition in Berlin.

This was the first time, the European Rail Supply Industry (UNIFE) has launched a competition for small and medium-sized enterprises in the categories of innovation and social responsibility. The Association, whose members cover  84% of the European market and 46% of the global rail market, found Prolan's entry to be the best, and Márton Feldmann, Deputy CEO and Director of the Rail Automation Business Unit, accepted the award from Ennio Wiebe, Managing Director, and Roger Dirksmeier, Member of the Board. Prolan played an outstanding roles in various fields, such as  promoting railway culture, providing career guidance of young engineers and trainees, supporting people with disadvantages as well as supporting institutions in the region, health solidarity and in environmental awareness, while upholding and building on the values of its founders.

In his speech at the award ceremony at the exhibition of the world's leading railway technologies, Márton Feldmann emphasised that the award was a tribute to the initiative and sacrifice of Prolan employees and the family atmosphere created by the founders and their love of the profession. As a medium-sized company, the  Prolan pays special attention to the fact that all employees are familiar with and become part of the value creation that ensures the success of their solutions and the satisfaction of their customers.

The knowledge of the operating environment and the ability to adapt, enables them to enhance the customer experience with tailor-made, specific solutions whilst providing adaptive response to the gaps, problems and needs identified in the region in the context of social responsibility.

Prolan Zrt. employs 178 people at its headquarters in Budakalász, Hungary, and its main proprietary products are centralised traffic management and control systems (CTCS), hybrid electronic signalling, railway energy monitoring and control solutions, and on-board systems and energy management devices, that are not only used on more than a quarter of the Hungarian railway network, but also in Bulgaria and Turkey, as well as being used by the German Railways. The company has been a member of UNIFE since 2018 and is exhibiting for the sixth time at InnoTrans, taking place between 24 to 27 September 2024.