Siemens Mobility opens new headquarters in Munich Allach

On 7 July, Prime Minister Söder, Lord Mayor Reiter, Munich's Economic Affairs Officer Dr Christian Scharpf, and other guests attended the opening ceremony of Siemens Mobility's new international headquarters in Munich Allach.

Following a total investment of around 250 million euros, Siemens Mobility has expanded the site to 100,000 square metres, doubling its floor space. The site is now the company's main hub for the development and production of rail vehicles, as well as a competence centre for servicing them.

The site now employs 2,000 people from 41 different countries, including 325 employees who relocated from the former Munich Perlach site. The expansion and increase in capacity will create a further 500 highly qualified jobs here, particularly in technical areas such as welding, metalworking, mechatronics, and electrics.

As one of the most modern train production facilities in Europe, the Munich-Allach train factory relies on laser-guided installation and digital twin technology, as well as AI-based software solutions. Thanks to AI-based maintenance, it can also triple its service capacity.

Siemens Mobility has been an independent GmbH since 2017, operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Siemens Group.

Siemens took over the locomotive business completely from its former partner Krauss-Maffei in 2001, and electrically powered Vectron locomotives have been produced in Allach since 2010.

In 2015, production reached a milestone with the 22,000th locomotive being a Vectron. Also in that year, Siemens Mobility's service division moved into the Rail Service Centre and Data Centre on the site, enabling synergies between production and service.

The Taurus 3, one of the fastest locomotives in the world with a maximum speed of 357 km/h and now in use with ÖBB, also comes from the Siemens locomotive factory.

The Vectron series of passenger carriages has also recently been built in Allach, including the 'Vectouro' coaches commissioned by the Czech state railway last year. In future, 50–180 wagons are to be produced per year.

In June 2025, Siemens Mobility delivered the first of its latest generation of locomotives — the Vectron MS ('multi-system deployment') — to the Italian Rail Traction Company (RTC) S.p.A. This 90-tonne locomotive is equipped with technology that enables cross-border rail transport in Europe. The Vectron MS can switch from direct to alternating current, meaning locomotive changes are unnecessary.

There is also an electric-only Vectron MS locomotive which, thanks to rechargeable batteries, can occasionally run on routes without overhead lines.