On April 9th, 1912, Paul Vahle put the first conductor rails into operation and filed a patent application for his invention. The company VAHLE is founded in Dortmund as a partnership.

Paul Vahle dies and hiswife Helene manages the company.

Son Paul Werner Vahle takes over the father's company.

Property is acquired at Westicker Strasse, Kamen. In 1958 the production started in Kamen, the administration moves one year later from Dortmund to Kamen.

Start of production of enclosed conductor system type KSL.

Establishment of Paul Vahle GmbH & Co. KG. Josef Hötte joins the company. He will be working here for more than 40 years and will be part of the management team for almost 30 years.

As a result of the development of electric monorail systems, the U10 conductor system is invented.

Development of the Contactless Power Supply (CPS^®) for inductive power transmission.

FABA product line conductor systems acquired.

VAHLE celebrates its 100^th anniversary.

Foundation of the joint venture VAHLE DETO GmbH in Kufstein, Austria

Start of the new business unit VAHLE Automation in Kufstein, Austria