construcciones y auxiliar de ferrocarriles s.a. caf type public bmad caf industry manufacturing founded 1917 compa a auxiliar de ferrocarriles headquarters beasain spain number of locations 11 factories including beasain zaragoza ir n linares spain ; hortolandia brazil ; huehuetoca mexico ; elmira usa key people jose mar a baztarrica garijo chief executive officer and chairman products design manufacture maintenance and supply of equipment and components for railway systems revenue 1 45 billion 2014 operating income 146 million ebitda 2014 profit 62 million 2014 owner public ; employees via cartera social s.a. 30 % ; guip zcoa donostia kutxa 23 % number of employees 7 000 inc. subsidiaries website www.caf.es mass transit railway hong kong a stock emu built by caf and adtranz 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 . 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 . 1 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 . contents 1 history 1.1 f brica de hierros san mart n 1.2 la maquinista guipuzcoana 1.3 compa a auxiliar de ferrocarriles 1.4 construcciones y auxiliar de ferrocarriles 2 rolling stock 2.1 spanish trains 2.1.1 spanish metro and tram 2.2 outside spain trains 2.3 outside spain metros and trams 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit bucharest metro trains built between 2013 and 2014 caf was an acronym for the earlier name of compa a auxiliar de ferrocarriles as well as for construcciones y auxiliar de ferrocarriles . f brica de hierros san mart n edit in 1860 domingo goitia mart n usabiaga and jos francisco arana established this company whose main activity was puddling furnaces and cylinder rolling . la maquinista guipuzcoana edit 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 f brica de vagones de beasain fvb . compa a auxiliar de ferrocarriles edit compa a 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 m vil 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 edit in 1971 the existing compa a auxiliar de ferrocarriles caf merged with material m vil y construcciones mmc and the company adopted its current name construcciones y auxiliar de ferrocarriles . rolling stock edit spanish trains edit class 121 for renfe the following high speed rail emus were built class 120 class 121 oaris and the following regional trains class 598 class 594 class 449 class 599 class 440 class 444 suburban trains civia 462 463 464 465 class 446 447 locomotives class 250 class 252 for mallorca the fesur hybrid locomotive bitrac 3600 was developed . for feve locomotive class 1900 dmu class 2600 dmu class 2700 dmu class 2900 for euskotren ut200 ut300 ut900 ut3500 euskotren xxi spanish metro and tram edit for madrid class 300 class 1000 class 2000 class 3000 class 5000 class 6000 class 8000 class 8400 for barcelona class 5000 class 1000 class 2000 class 3000 class 4000 class 5000 class 6000 class s 2100 class s 300 trams urbos 1 tranv a de bilbao urbos 2 tranv a de v lez m laga tranv a de vitoria and metro de sevilla . urbos 3 metrocentro de sevilla tranv a de zaragoza metropolitano de granada metro de m laga and tranv a metropolitano de la bah a de c diz . outside spain trains edit algiers metro heathrow express tren de la costa unit acquired in 1995 algeria dmus argentina 9 articulated units for tren de la costa brazil cptm emus finland construction of fiat designed vr class sm4 hungary m v wagon 2 ireland ie 29000 class ireland ie mark 4 italy dmus for sardinia italy civity emus for trieste latvia civity emus and dmus montenegro civity emus netherlands new local trains civity emus 3 new zealand am class emu auckland portugal emus uqe s for lisboa saudi arabia dmus for saudi railways organization and saudi railway authority turkey tcdd class ht65000 turkey emus of izmir uk british rail class 332 heathrow express uk british rail class 333 northern rail uk british rail class 195 northern uk british rail class 331 northern uk northern ireland railways class 3000 and class 4000 uk british rail class 397 transpennine express 4 usa amtrak viewliner ii outside spain metros and trams edit brussels metro new unit built by caf rome metro caracas metro caf 5000 on line b of the buenos aires underground algeria algiers metro argentina buenos aires underground 5000 and 6000 series belgium brussels metro 6000 series brazil s o paulo metro brazil cuiab tram brazil recife metro chile santiago metro colombia medell n metro estonia tallinn tram france nantes tramway france besan on tramway germany freiburg tram planned hong kong mtr mtr adtranz caf emu hungary debrecen tram 5 hungary budapest 6 india delhi airport metro express india kolkata metro east west line italy rome metro mexico mexico city metro ne 92 nm 02 fe 07 fe 10 netherlands s3 and m4 units of the amsterdam metro and from 2018 the uithof tram line in utrecht romania bucharest metro serbia belgrade tram sweden stockholm tram taiwan kaohsiung tram turkey antray antalya lrt turkey istanbul metro uk new midland metro vehicles uk edinburgh trams usa light rail of sacramento california class 200 usa pittsburgh light rail pennsylvania class 4300 usa washington metro 5000 series usa metrorail houston tx usa kansas city streetcar usa cincinnati streetcar usa mbta green line type 9 lrv on order to be delivered 2017 2019 venezuela caracas metro see also edit karlos argui ano a former worker at caf who later became famous as a tv chef . variable gauge axles 7 references edit hondius dr harry . in focus caf a versatile enterprise that keeps expanding . railway gazette international . 168 no. 4 april 2012 . caf project page on m v treinfabrikant caf wint aanbesteding voor 120 nieuwe sprinters sng 30 october 2014 . more new trains for the north and scotland . transpennine express . transpennine express . retrieved 23 may 2016 . caf project page on debrecen caf project page on budapest construcciones y auxiliar de ferrocarriles we create railway solutions . caf . retrieved 2009 07 15 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to caf . official website spanish english retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title construcciones y auxiliar de ferrocarriles & oldid 740534312 categories construcciones y auxiliar de ferrocarrilescompanies established in 1917companies listed on the madrid stock exchangebasque companies1917 establishments in spainlocomotive manufacturers of spainrolling 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