Type Public (BMAD: CAF) Revenue € 1,45 billion (2014 Founded 1917 Net income 62 million EUR (2014) | Industry Manufacturing Headquarters Beasain, Spain Number of locations 11 | |
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Key people Jose María Baztarrica Garijo, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Products Design, manufacture, maintenance and supply of equipment and components for railway systems Operating income Stock price CAF (BME) € 36.00 -0.17 (-0.47%)3 Mar, 5:36 PM GMT+1 - Disclaimer CEO Andres Arizkorreta Garcia (26 Jul 2006–), Jose Maria Baztarrica Garijo (26 Dec 1991–) Subsidiaries CAF Argentina, S.A., Garraiotech SA, Traintic, S.L. | ||
Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (Grupo CAF) (literally "Construction & Auxiliary of Railways") is a Spanish private company which manufactures railway vehicles and equipment. It is based in Beasain in the Basque Country. Equipment manufactured by Grupo CAF includes light rail vehicles, rapid transit trains, railroad cars and locomotives, as well as variable gauge axles that can be fitted on any existing truck or bogie.
Contents
- History
- Fbrica de Hierros San Martn
- La Maquinista Guipuzcoana
- Compaa Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
- Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
- Spanish trains
- Spanish metro and tram
- Outside Spain trains
- Outside Spain metros and trams
- References
Over the 20 years from the early 1990s, CAF benefitted from the rail investment boom in its home market in Spain to become a world player with a broad technical capability, able to manufacture almost any type of rail vehicle. CAF has supplied railway rolling stock to a number of major urban transit operators around Europe, the USA, South America, East Asia, India and North Africa.
History
CAF was an acronym for the earlier name of Compañía Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, as well as for Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles.
Fábrica de Hierros San Martín
In 1860 Domingo Goitia, Martín Usabiaga and José Francisco Arana established this company, whose main activity was puddling furnaces and cylinder rolling.
La Maquinista Guipuzcoana
In 1892 Francisco de Goitia (Domingo Goitia's son and heir) joined the Marquis of Urquijo to set up La Maquinista Guipuzcoana, whose main activity was the operation of machinery and the forging and construction of railway rolling stock.
In 1898 it set up its plant in Beasain, Gipuzkoa. In 1905 it changed its name to Fábrica de Vagones de Beasain (FVB).
Compañía Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
Compañía Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) was founded in 1917, specializing in freight car production and with a total of 1,600 employees.
In 1940 the Irun factory was set up, following the expansion of activity after the Spanish Civil War (CAF took part in reconstructing the Spanish rail fleet).
In 1954 CAF took over Material Móvil y Construcciones (MMC) from Zaragoza (Aragon), a company with extensive experience in manufacturing long-distance and subway trains.
Since 1958 the company has modernized and enlarged its Beasain plant and expanded its activity to include all kinds of rolling stock. In line with this, in 1969 CAF created its Research and Development Unit, which increased the company's competitiveness and intensified the focus on in-house technology.
Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
In 1971 the existing Compañía Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) merged with Material Móvil y Construcciones (MMC) and the company adopted its current name Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles.
Spanish trains
For RENFE, the following high speed rail EMUs were built:
and the following regional trains:
Suburban trains:
Locomotives:
For Mallorca, the Fesur Hybrid locomotive Bitrac 3600 was developed.
For FEVE:
For Euskotren:
Spanish metro and tram
For Madrid:
For Barcelona:
Trams: