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Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
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Basque OEM with plants in Spain, Wales and New York; strong in LRVs, regional fleets and Spanish signalling packages.
- Kind
- Rolling-stock OEM
- Headquarters
- Spain
- Ownership
- Listed
- Segments
- Rolling stock, Signalling, Maintenance
- Present in
- European Union, United States, United Kingdom
Footprint
European Union
| Kind | Where | Detail | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | Spain, France | Headquarters Beasain; plants Beasain, Zaragoza, Irún, Linares (ES), Bagnères-de-Bigorre (FR) |
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| Project presence | Netherlands | NS order for 60 double-deck Civity Duo EMUs (30x4-car, 30x6-car), €600m, signed December 2022; first service ≈2029 since 2022-12 |
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United States
| Kind | Where | Detail | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant | New York | Elmira, NY — light rail vehicles, streetcars and coaches; corporate office Washington, DC |
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United Kingdom
Positions held
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- awarded by BKK — 100 percent low-floor trams for Budapest supplied by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, S.A. (last vehicle of the third call-off delivered 18 September 2025, 31 further trams due by 31 January 2027) (active · since 2026-08)
- awarded by EAV — Campania regional railway works, lot 2 (systems, rolling stock, maintenance), in the RTI that names CAF with Leonardo, AET, MER MEC STE and Francesco Ventura Costruzioni (concluded 4 May 2026) (active · since 2026-05)
- awarded by Adif — Signalling works package, Espeluy — UTE CAF/Magtel (May 2026) (active · since 2026-05)
- awarded by HKL — Helsinki metro automatic train control system and associated services, and the M300 retrofit named on a voluntary ex-ante transparency notice (active · since 2026-01-20)
- awarded by DB InfraGO — ETCS retrofit of the BR 721.3 driving trailers (December 2025) (active · since 2025-12)
- awarded by SNCB/NMBS — AM30 EMU and BEMU framework: 12 years, total on TED; first order 180 trains (active · since 2025-12)
- supplies OTW / TEC — 27 seven-section low-floor trams for the Liege tram, and a consortium stake through CAF Investment Projects (active · since 2025)
- awarded by City of Calgary — Green Line Phase 1 light rail vehicles — 28 CAF Urbos 100, manufacturing from 2025 (active · since 2025)
- in JV with AtkinsRéalis — Digital signalling lot of Network Rail's Train Control Systems Framework (active · since 2024-09)
- awarded by STASY — ΤΔ-156/21: CAF SA holds the turn-key upgrade of fourteen five-car Athens Metro Line 1 trains, winning tender (active · since 2022-12-14)
- awarded by NS — 60 DDNG double-deck trains (over, December 2022) (active · since 2022-12)
- awarded by MBTA — Contract 722-22, 102 Green Line Type 10 light rail vehicles (active · since 2022-08-31)
- awarded by Carris — 15 light rail vehicles for Lisbon with maintenance services (active · since 2021-04-21)
- awarded by DRSI — Upgrade of the interlocking and signalling on line 30 Zidani Most–Maribor–Šentilj, awarded to ISKRA with CAF Signalling, S.L.; contract of 12 July 2019, modification notices to December 2025 (active · since 2019-07-12)
- supplies De Lijn — Tram framework for up to 146 low-floor trams, for Antwerp, Ghent and the coastal tram (active · since 2017)
- supplies Luxtram — The Luxembourg tram fleet is CAF Urbos: the ACF has authorised 33 seven-section Urbos units for Luxtram since 2017, together with one multifunction road-rail vehicle and one road-rail sweeper, and authorised none in 2025 (active · since 2017)
- awarded by OTW / TEC — Liege tram 11.7 km DBFM concession Tram'Ardent — CAF Investment Projects (active)
- supplies Cincinnati Connector — Five CAF Urbos low-floor streetcar vehicles for the Cincinnati Connector; the City withheld from CAF USA over air-compressor failures in cold weather (active)
- Contract detail and values (13)over $1bn · $500m–1bn · $100–500m · $25–100m · $5–25mIn the European Union, United Kingdom, United States edition See a fully open example
Sources for these relationships (29)
- ● ACF, Rapport d'activite ferroviaire 2025 · 24-page activity report published by the ACF, downloaded as a 1.33 MB PDF, HTTP 200, on 14 September 2026. Table 1 lists the certified rail actors using the national rail network: CFL Gestionnaire Infrastructure (Luxembourg) holds a safety authorisation valid to 16.04.2028; CFL Entreprise ferroviaire (Luxembourg) a single safety certificate for passenger operations to 29.07.2029; CFL cargo S.A. (Luxembourg) a single safety certificate for freight to 28.10.2026; LINEAS (Belgium) a single freight certificate to 18.03.2026; Hexafret (France) a single freight certificate to 27.10.2029. Chapter 4: the Sillons division handled 50,391 path orders in 2025, representing 319,887 train runs, with 1,353 no-shows of which 20 per cent passenger, 35 per cent freight and 45 per cent infrastructure manager; 56.6 per cent of path orders were cancellations; 1,004 medium- and short-term train notices and 8,223 very-short-term train notices were issued and 660 short-term works notices checked and validated. Of all train categories run, 58 per cent were passenger (V140 47 per cent, HPV140 11 per cent), 39 per cent freight and 3 per cent infrastructure-manager. Chapter 3: the two tram safety documents were renewed in 2022 for five years to 28.11.2027; no new tram was authorised in 2025; since 2017 the ACF has authorised 33 seven-section Urbos trams, one multifunction road-rail vehicle and one road-rail sweeper; on 28 February 2025 the ACF issued the entry-into-service authorisation for the structural subsystems of section E, Luxexpo to Findel Luxembourg Airport, under identification number LU 60 2025 5001, adding the stations 'Heienhaff P+R' and 'Findel-Luxembourg Airport' over 3.9 km and linking Kirchberg to the airport; 192 tram-driver licences have been issued since 2017. The ACF has held an ISO 9001 certificate since 2015, the current one valid 20.12.2024 to 10.12.2027 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● ACF, Rapport du tramway 2025 · Ten-page tram report, ACF activities plus Luxtram safety information, downloaded as a 477 KB PDF on 14 September 2026. Table 4, evolution of traffic: transport offer 1,005,883 km and 14,900,793 passengers in 2021; 1,118,131 km and 20,195,610 in 2022; 1,270,000 km and 28,700,000 in 2023; 1,460,000 km and 31,700,000 in 2024; 2,003,000 km and 35,200,000 in 2025. The report states that kilometres run rose 37 per cent on 2024 and passengers 11 per cent. Collisions with third parties: 23 in 2025 against 14 in 2024, of which 17 involved vehicles; passenger events 9 against 5; emergency braking 108 against 126. Table 5 injuries in 2025: 14 in total, 10 slight, 4 serious, no deaths. The all-events rate per 10,000 km was 0.15 in 2025 against a STRMTG reference of 0.31 in 2024 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Adif · adif.es (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-05)
- ● AtkinsRéalis · Appointed to upgrade and digitise UK rail signalling over 10 years (Train Control Systems Framework) (published 2024-09-16 · checked 2026-09-06)
- ● CAF (Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles) · Belgian operator SNCB confirms CAF as preferred bidder for the supply of its new fleet of trains (published 2025-07-23 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ○ Railway PRO · Belgium: De Lijn reaffirms largest tram contract (CAF framework, 146 trams, EUR 295m) (published 2017-06-14 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● SNCB/NMBS · Le Conseil d'administration de la SNCB attribue le marche des AM30 a CAF et commande les premiers trains (published 2025-12-19 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · SNCB/NMBS — Framework agreement for the purchase of electric multiple units (EMUs) and battery multiple units (BEMUs); awarded to Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles S.A. — contract award notice 105453-2026 (published 2026-02-13 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ○ Urban Transport Magazine · Liege has a tramway again! (opening, route, fleet, concession) (published 2025-04-28 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● City of Calgary · Green Line LRT — supply and contract opportunities (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● City of Calgary · Green Line LRT — trains (Urbos 100 light rail vehicles) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Pääkaupunkiseudun Kaupunkiliikenne Oy · Metro fleet (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● European Union — Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Greece – Parts of locomotives or rolling stock – ΤΔ-156/21 - ΑΝΑΒΑΘΜΙΣΗ ΣΥΡΜΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΓΡΑΜΜΗΣ 1 — contract modification notice, buyer ΣΤΑΘΕΡΕΣ ΣΥΓΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΕΣ ΜΟΝΟΠΡΟΣΩΠΗ Α.Ε.: turn-key upgrade of fourteen five-car Line 1 trains, seventy vehicles in all, plus spares; winning tendering party CAF SA with a payable amount of EUR 65,494,301; notice total EUR 71,716,259.59; settled contract dated 14 December 2022 (published 2025-07-09 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● European Union — Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Greece – Parts of locomotives or rolling stock – ΤΔ-156/21 - ΑΝΑΒΑΘΜΙΣΗ ΣΥΡΜΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΓΡΑΜΜΗΣ 1 — second contract modification notice two days after 446885-2025, same buyer, same contractor CAF SA and the same winning-tender payable amount of EUR 65,494,301, but a notice total of EUR 71,703,673.59 (published 2025-07-11 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (Board of Directors) · State Match Funding for Core Capacity, 22 January 2026 (project cost and location appendix) (published 2026-01-22 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (Board of Directors) · RFP No. 367F-19 Type 10 Supercar Update and Procurement Award, 31 August 2022 (published 2022-08-31 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● NS · NS bestelt 60 nieuwe dubbeldekkers: sneller en meer stoelen (CAF, ruim 600 miljoen) (published 2022-12-13 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● City of Cincinnati (official) — Streetcar · About the Streetcar — fleet of five, 3.6-mile loop, ownership/operation split (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-19)
- ● City of Cincinnati (official) — Streetcar · FAQs — vehicle dimensions/capacity, Cincinnati Bell naming rights to August 2026, permit office contact (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-19)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Companhia Carris de Ferro de Lisboa — purchase of 15 light rail vehicles for urban public passenger transport and maintenance services; awarded to Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, S.A.; contract award notice, with contratacaopublica@carris.pt as the buyer's contact point (published 2026-02-23 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ○ Railway PRO · Adif to invest EUR 24 billion until 2026 (published 2023 · checked 2026-09-05)
- ● European Union · TED notice 173417-2026 — M300-metrojunien muutokset junakulunvalvonnan kehittämisen takia (HKL) (published 2026-03-12 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● European Union · TED notice 115455-2026 — ATC Metron kulunvalvontajärjestelmän ja siihen liittyvien palvelujen hankinta — award (HKL, Länsimetro Oy, Pääkaupunkiseudun Kaupunkiliikenne Oy) (published 2026-02-18 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · DB InfraGO AG – Geschäftsbereich Fahrweg (Bukr 16) — Germany – Railway maintenance or service vehicles – ETCS-Nachrüstung BR721.3 (Steuerwagen) — notice 857988-2025 (published 2025-12-23 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Administración de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias — Spain – Repair, maintenance and associated services related to railways and othe — notice 395586-2026 (published 2026-06-10 · checked 2026-09-05)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias — Spain – Railway signalling works – Redacción de proyecto constructivo y ejecució — notice 367384-2026 (published 2026-05-29 · checked 2026-09-05)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · BKK Budapesti Közlekedési Központ Zrt. — Hungary – Electric vehicles – 100%-ban alacsonypadlós villamosok beszerzése (contract modification notice, EUR 90,462,455 to Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, S.A.) — notice 576848-2026 (published 2026-08-20 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · ENTE AUTONOMO VOLTURNO — Italy – Railway construction works – PROGETTAZIONE ESECUTIVA ED ESECUZIONE DEI L — notice 336046-2026 (published 2026-05-18 · checked 2026-09-05)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · DRSI — Nadgradnja SV naprav na železniški progi št. 30 Zidani Most-Šentilj-d.m., contract-modification notice naming ISKRA and CAF Signalling, €58,499,875.24 — notice 270179-2024 (checked 2026-09-13)
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- ● CAF · Manufacturing plants (checked 2026-09-06)
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