VHC Trade was founded in 1992. Right from the start, it represented the Austrian manufacturer Plasser & Theurer on the Czech market — at the time still the Czechoslovak market. Plasser & Theurer is the world’s largest manufacturer of specialized railway technology and naturally operates not only in other European countries, but around the world.

The fact that VHC Trade has represented Plasser & Theurer technology on the Czech market for more than thirty years, we consider the result of good work from the very beginning of our company’s operation right up to the present day.

Before the end of the millennium, VHC Trade had already expanded its portfolio of suppliers to include the German manufacturer Robel and the Swiss manufacturer Speno. Thanks to this, we can offer our partners hand-held machines for the maintenance of track systems, as well as technology for reprofiling railway lines and switches. More recently we added the precise measuring machines from Vogel & Plötscher, used for diagnosing the condition of the rail head.

The construction and maintenance of railway tracks is a specific and fascinating field. Recently we have been encountering a range of innovations bringing new technologies into use. We have responded to this too — we changed our company’s structure, strengthened our team with new colleagues, and expanded our service portfolio with further activities.

Since 2016 we have had a service facility in northern Bohemia, of which we became the sole owner in 2021. In Lovosice we now operate the world’s first certified external service centre for Plasser & Theurer. Thanks to this investment, you will find a fully equipped, qualified facility in Central Europe for the long-term care of your machines. Since 2022, we have also focused on the servicing and maintenance of rail vehicles in the rail transport segment, and, last but not least, on the integration of ETCS systems.

Today, as the VHC Group, we focus not only on the supply of technology but also on the servicing and maintenance of machines, including their general overhauls and modernisation.

The people at VHC Group never lose sight of our customers‘ needs, and that is why we always want to provide them with the best care and guarantee the same personal approach that has been part of our company since the very beginning.