Emprendimientos Ferroviarios
Type | S.A. |
---|---|
Industry | Transport |
Founded | 2005 |
Defunct | 2014 |
Fate | Merged into CSR in 2014 |
Headquarters | , |
Products | Rolling stock |
Owner | Mario and Claudio Cirigliano |
Emprendimientos Ferroviarios S.A. (Emfer) was an Argentine rolling stock manufacturer based in San Martín, Buenos Aires.[1] The company also remodeled and repaired rail vehicles and had previously manufactured rolling stock for the Sarmiento and Mitre commuter rail lines in Buenos Aires. The Emfer rolling stock ran on the two lines until 2014 when they were replaced with CSR Corporation Limited Electric Multiple Units.[2][3][4]
The company's main factory in San Martín once belonged to the state-owned Fabricaciones Militares (which also manufactured rolling stock among other military products).[5]
In 2014 the company became a subsidiary of CSR Corporation Limited,[6] with the takeover intended so that the Chinese firm could build rolling stock in the country.[7]
After the takeover, CSR fired 40 former EMFER workers. Dcuring its last years, the company was managed by brothers Mario and Claudio Cirigliano, then prosecuted by the Once tragedy in 2012. In January 2014 they decided to sold EMFER after the government of Argentina took them off the concession of Sarmiento Line.[8]
See also[]
- Fiat-Materfer (Buenos Aires Underground) - underground trains in part assembled at EMFER[9]
References[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Emfer. |
- ^ Emfer SA - Railway directory
- ^ MAQUILLAJE CELESTE PARA LA LÍNEA SARMIENTO - Cronica Ferroviaria, 18 December 2012.
- ^ Se vienen los vagones de dos pisos hechos en el país Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine - Reportero Ferroviario
- ^ Arrancan los trenes del Mitre - Pagina/12, 24 November 2014.
- ^ CSR adquiere EMFER y desembarca en la Argentina - EnElSubte, 26 February 2014
- ^ "CSR adquiere EMFER y desembarca en la Argentina", enelsubte.com (in Spanish), 26 Feb 2014
- ^ Company Overview of Emprendimientos Ferroviarios S.A. Emfer S.A. - Bloomberg Business
- ^ Tomaron la fábrica EMFER y cortaron colectora de General Paz on Noticias Argentinas, 22 July 2014
- ^ CSR adquiere EMFER y desembarca en la Argentina - EnElSubte, 26 February 2014.
- Rolling stock manufacturers of Argentina
- CRRC Group
- Manufacturing companies established in 2005
- Manufacturing companies disestablished in 2014
- Railway companies established in 2005
- Railway companies disestablished in 2014
- 2005 establishments in Argentina
- 2014 disestablishments in Argentina