Type S.A. Headquarters Buenos Aires | Number of employees 10,000 | |
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Industry Civil Engineering
Transport
Metallurgy Key people Gabriel Benjamín Romero Products Diesel locomotives
Railcars Subsidiaries Emepa Tecnologia
Ferrovías
Ferrocentral (defunct)
Argentren (defunct) | ||
Grupo Emepa (English: Emepa Group) is an Argentine manufacturer of railway vehicles and owner of Ferrovías (which operates on the Belgrano Norte Line), with headquarters located in the city of Buenos Aires. It had formerly owned Ferrocentral, which ran services from Buenos Aires to Córdoba and San Miguel de Tucumán on the Mitre Network, however the state-owned company SOFSE took over these services in 2014 and the subsidiary now remains inactive.
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Rolling stock manufacturing
Emepa currently produces Alerce trains at the company's workshop in Chascomús. Current models are diesel multiple units which are being phased into the Belgrano Norte Line in Greater Buenos Aires with 20 two-carriage trains on order, however electric models will be made available in the future for other lines. The trains are made using 90% of the raw materials needed from Argentina and have a capacity for 240 people. In June 2015 it was announced that Emepa would produce a broad gauge variant of the Alerce for use on local service on the General Roca Railway.
Over the years the company has also restored and refurbished older rolling stock in Argentina, particularly for the Buenos Aires Underground. Some examples include modernised versions of the La Brugeoise cars and also refurbished some Siemens-Schuckert Orenstein & Koppel rolling stock together with Alstom, which is still in service on Line A and Line H of the Underground.
Train operating companies
The group owned both Ferrovías and Ferrocentral. Ferrovías still operates the Belgrano Norte Line, while Ferrocentral formerly operated services from Buenos Aires to Rosario, Córdoba and Tucumán as well as the Tren de las Sierras in Córdoba Province - services which were gradually taken over by Trenes Argentinos (SOFSE) in 2014 and 2015. The company had also owned Argentren, which operated the Roca and Belgrano Sur lines until they were also re-nationalised by the government in 2014.
Through Ferrovías, the company also operates the Lima Metro.