Frauscher has introduced Elaine Baker as new Managing Director of Frauscher UK Ltd. She took over the role from Richard Colman, who will retire in the near future.

Elaine Baker has over 28 years of experience in Rail and across other Industries, with considerable knowledge and experience of the entire project development and delivery lifecycle. Her career started in Siemens in the UK as a software, system and project engineer for various railway technologies before she worked for Invensys Rail in a global programme manager role across Railway Signalling products, including the Thames link Project.

Thereby, Elaine Baker brings a broad experience of the Rail Industry and a strong technical and R&D background to the Frauscher UK team. She is competent in technical and market driven product management, experienced in project management and understands the importance of the safety and operational demands of the Railway customer in today's Rail Industry. Therefore she will be able to act as an absolute qualified contact person for all Frauscher customers in the UK Market.

Now she is looking forward to her new tasks as MD of Frauscher UK Ltd: "I am very happy to join Frauscher at this exciting and changing time in the UK Rail Industry. The Frauscher UK team is growing and very committed to our customers. With the strong support from our colleagues at Frauscher HQ in Austria, we hope to bring the best axle counter solutions and customer service to our UK customers."

Michael Thiel, CEO Frauscher Sensortechnik GmbH, underlines the good base on which the cooperation between Frauscher HQ and Frauscher UK is built and gives an outlook: "The Frauscher portfolio provided for the UK market will be expanded, as well as innovative new technologies to be presented soon. Against this background, Elaine's start marks another milestone in our company's history and we welcome her to the team."

Frauscher Sensor Technology is the leading supplier of inductive sensor technology for use in the rail industry. Frauscher's portfolio includes the development, planning and production of innovative, highly-available and fail-safe sensor technology, as well as Wheel Detection Systems and Axle Counters for a very wide range of technical rail applications. The company has a presence in the Indian market as well.