History

The beginnings

The company was established by Dr. Gyula Jánosi with some university classmates in 1982 according to the conditions at that time as a small co.

Since they all worked at BKV and at MÁV in rail-related jobs it was obvious that the main profile of the founded enterprise would be rail vehicle technology. In that time the companies– only governmental – dealing with railway vehicles recognizing that it is not economical for the inflexibly responding large companies to perform all subtasks, and they began to give smaller works to more flexible, faster and cheaper private companies.

The company started its activity from zero, so in the beginning the workshop was in a basement, the office could fit into a briefcase, and the cover of this briefcase served as the desk.

After the first few difficult years the developing business spent all its profit into improvements and it started the building of the plant in Csömör, which is still in operation today. In this plant they equipped a machine shop and workshop suitable for repairing electric vehicle devices.

Expanding the scope of activities

Although railway engineering absorbed the capacity of the company, even in the end of the eighties it was clear that it is very risky to rely on only one profile. Therefore the leaders of the company tried to look for opportunities in other areas.

Thus they reached the then emerging market of different services. From these activities the most important was the undertaking of the two – still NDK produced – lawn mowers’ national maintenance activities and component supply, which worked successfully for several years, but as a result of political changes in Europe the two factories went bankrupt and it seemed that this lawn mower business would end soon.

Luckily at the beginning of the nineties the company got in contact with a premium category lawn mower producer company named Sabo operating in the Western part of Germany, who entrusted Movill Kft. with building up a national distribution and maintenance network, and later with producing machines for the German and Western-European markets. For this with German help the company bought a plant and built up the advanced device manufacturing capacity.

As years passed this activity ended, but during the “lawn mower years” the company met the Western economic and trade relations, which served as a firm base of foreign trading and of representing foreign, in the beginning mostly German companies in Hungary.

Movill Kft. looks back on decades of experience in respect of representation activities and foreign trading. Today they provide their services in English, French, Russian, Czech, Croatian and Serbian languages besides German.

Continuous development

Besides keeping the physical sectors (production, repair) and putting the new, modern CNC machines into service, the company aims to develop a new direction, which is engineering activity.

Within this framework it performs design works, in cooperation with higher education institutions it joins R+D topics, it undertakes the preparation of new and renewed railway vehicles’ prior type authorization, type authorization and installation license applications, and to prepare the Hungarian user’s manual, operating and maintenance instructions of modern foreign devices.

During tender writing activities the tenders are carried out by taking the EU directives into account and in case of winning tenders they follow them through until realization. In the last decade the company undertakes an increasing role in the field of infrastructure. We are reliable partners of our clients in the field of rail purchase and transport, and at the complete adoption of railway track maintenance vehicles, devices and other precision measuring instruments in Hungary.

Company philosophy

This is confirmed by the mission statement of our company, witch is the following quote from Wolfgang von Goethe:

“He who stays still, goes backward.”

Dr. Gyula Jánosi