Mafex corporate magazine Spanish Railway Association Issue 7. May 2016 EUROPEAN SMEs They are the basic structure of productive activity and, Spanish SMEs in particular, play a decisive role in the value chain of the rail industry worldwide MIDDLE EAST AND OMAN FAIR SINGAPORE, AUSTRALIA AND MALAYSIA INTERVIEW: PHILIPPE CITRÖEN Active participation of Mafex and its Three destinations with a strong rail The General Director of UNIFE analyses members during March investment for the coming years the European railway situation MAFEX ◗ Table of Contents PHILIPPE CITRÖEN / EDITORIAL The General Director of UNIFE 05 (European Railway Association) analyses the railway situation in 06 / MAFEX INFORMS Europe. XV EXPORAIL MEXICO 2016 The association was present in the most important railway 22 / DESTINATON event in Mexico, which was SINGAPORE, MALAYSIA Y AUSTRALIA attended by a large group of Spanish The three countries are investing companies. heavily in rail to significantly improve BUY AMERICA their network. MIDDLE EAST RAIL FAIR 2016 AND VISIT TO OMAN MTC The association addressed the IN DEPTH Spain Spanish railway sector relations with 44/ the Middle East during March. EUROPEAN SMEs MTC Promoters of international business, USA MTC ASIA PACIFIC RAIL FAIR 2016 AND small and medium-sized enterprises China VISIT TO TAIWAN require assistance to address During the first half of the year, competitiveness and development. Mafex is conducting various MTC promotional activities in this region. India INSTITUTIONAL DELEGation to SWEDEN Along with a dozen railway companies, the Association was part of the official visit of Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Competitiveness of the Basque Country to Sweden. METRO DELHI VISIT TO SPAIN A representative of Metro Delhi visited several Spanish railway / INNOVATION companies along with Mafex. 56 New plant MTC in USA MAFEX MEMBERS PRESENT THEIR LATEST DEVELOPMENTS www.metalocaucho.com / MEMBERS NEWS 12 63 / AGENDA 18 / ENTERVIEW 64 / MEMBER'S DIRECTORY MAFEX 3 Innovamos desde MAFEX ◗ Editorial “If you are looking for different results The important role of SMEs in don’t always do the same things” the railway sector Dear friends, “No es el más As the year progresses, the Spanish rail industry destined to the European Union countries, market fuerte el que remains a world leader. Our participation during in which there is the highest concentration of perdura. Tampoco this first quarter, Exporail Mexico, Middle East Rail the largest and most demanding rolling stock el más inteligente. Es el que mejor and Asia Pacific Rail, has recorded the interest manufacturers in the world. se adapta a los in our industry in the world. Also, the visit of In this sense speaks Philippe Citröen, General cambios” a representative of Metro Delhi to Spain, and Director of UNIFE, the European Association of Charles Darwin , our participation in an institutional delegation the Rail Industry, whom we interviewed in this “El origen de las especies” to Sweden, have made it clear once again that issue. According to him, half of the railway world the international railway industry relies on market is supplied by the European industry, technology and Spanish rail services. which is also leading the industry worldwide. For example, in the section Members News of this The section Destination focuses on three major number, you can see some of the most important markets: Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. contracts awarded in recent months to Spanish Countries that are undertaking a major companies, such as access control and ticketing investment in rail infrastructure, and where some on trains of Buenos Aires, the access doors of our members have been working for several for passengers in Metro Panama or the design years. consultancy for the high speed section of Texas, Finally, I anticipate that in the next issue, to Una pista: la fl exibilidad es clave among others. be published in September on the occasion of Albert Einstein. Source: Wikimedia Commons In addition, this time, we wanted to dedicate InnoTrans, we will include an article with the Exercise your creativity. At Amurrio we are doing this If you want to improve the results of the In Depth section to the important role that most important technological advances that the Change your point of view. continuously since 1880. your rail project, don’t always do the small and medium-sized European companies 50 Spanish exhibitors will be presenting at the Take a differet track. We apply all our knowledge and same things. play within the value chain of the rail industry fair. creativity to create safer, more versatile and effi cient turnouts. This time come to Amurrio. worldwide. In the case of Spanish SMEs, over the Again, we hope that this issue is of your interest Do you dare to innovate? last decade, more than 50% of its exports were and you enjoy reading it. MANAGEMENT: MAFEX. 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MAFEX 5 EinsteinA4.indd 2 13/1/16 18:30 MAFEX reports ◗ Breaking News Mafex booth at the Middle Middle East East Rail Fair in Dubai Rail Fair 2016 and visit to Oman MAFEX EMPASHIZED LAST MARCH ON THE SPANISH RAILWAY SECTOR RELATIONS WITH THE MIDDLE EAST Spanish Railway Association, Mafex, in collaboration with S ICEX Spain Export and Invest- Spanish exhibitors ment, organized for the second at the XV Exporail time the Spanish group participa- Mexico 2016 tion in the Exhibition and Con- gress Middle East Rail 2016 held in Dubai during March 8-9. XV Exporail Mexico 2016 A total of 8 Spanish railway com- panies: ArecelorMittal Comercial area of 9,000 square metres of ex- bers of UNIFE, the Association of MAFEX WAS PRESENT AT THE ers, attended as exhibitors. by the Secretary of Communications Perfiles España, AQUAFRISCH, hibition space. the European Rail Industry, had the MOST IMPORTANT RAILWAY The event, which was opened by the and Transport at the opening of Ex- Caf, Idom, Patentes Talgo, Sener, During the event, technical semi- opportunity to attend the meet- head of the Secretariat of Commu- porail, the new railway terminal in Tecnatom and Typsa, presented nars and conferences were held ing between the Director General EVENT IN MEXICO, ATTENDED nications and Transportation (SCT), Durango, the international railway their latest technologies and inno- on various topics in the railway of the Transport Directorate of BY A LARGE GROUP OF Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, brought to- crossing Matamoros-Brownsville, vative services in one of the most sector and the maintenance of the European Commission (DG SPANISH COMPANIES gether more than 750 profession- and the construction of a railway important platforms in the Middle rolling stock and infrastructure, MOVE), Mr. Henrik Hololei; the Ex- als and exhibitors from 16 countries tunnel in Manzanillo. East, which covered the various tunneling or different techno- ecutive Director of the European afex coordinated for the in an area of 2,000 square meters, Mexican freight rail is positioned in railway fields: Infrastructure, Roll- logical developments, in addition Railway Agency, Mr. Josef Dop- first time the group par- including Austria, Germany, France, the eleventh place at a global scale, ing Stock, Signalling and Control to the presentation of the latest pelbauer and the Director General Mticipation of Spanish com- Italy, USA, China, Canada, Brazil, with steel, automobile and cement and Intermodal Transportation, projects in the Middle East, which of UNIFE, Mr. Philippe Citroën. The panies in the XV International Exhi- Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Gua- the main products transported. among others. were covered on issues 5 and 6 of purpose of this meeting was to bition and business meeting of the temala and, of course, Mexico and As for passenger traffic in Mexico, The exhibition, organized by Ter- this magazine. discuss the opportunities and chal- railway industry organized by the Spain. more than 7.5 million people per rapin, was attended by over 9,000 Under the framework of the Con- lenges of the railway sector in the Mexican Railway Association (AMF). The National Infrastructure Program year use rail passenger transport. participants from 62 countries and gress, the Director of Mafex, Mr. Middle East as well as the oppor- The event was held in Acapulco 2014-2018, conducted by the SCT In addition, participation in Expo- about 2,000 companies, of which Pedro Fortea, along with a small tunities for European companies from the 10th to the 12th of Febru- with the Spanish consulting firm rail was complemented by several 218 exhibitors were spread over an group of Spanish companies mem- against competitors from other ary. Spanish companies like Amur- Idom, includes 12 major