Since it was founded at the end of the XIX century,
CAF has based its success on its large production flexibility and versatility.
CAF´s Components Division, at the Beasain factory, produces a wide range of railway equipment and components.
These components are not only assembled in our own vehicles but also as separate items that are sold to a large number of railway administrations and manufacturing companies of the railway sector, all over the world.
Range of products of the components division:
- Railway components:
- Wheelsets for all types of vehicles:
- Motors for locomotives, Metro Units Trains, motorcars and local trains.
- Driven by passenger cars viajeros
- All types of wagons
- For high speed trains
- All types of wheels:
- With built in brake disc
- Low voltages
- Resilient
- Soundproof
- Auxiliary for pneumatic trucks
- All tyoe of axles:
- For locomotives, Metro Units Trains, motorcars and local trains.
- For passenger cars.
- For freight wagons
- For high speed and variable gauge trains
- Hollow shafts
- With surface treatments
- Non-Railway components:
- Crane wheels
- Axles
- Rings, flanges and discs
- Gear wheels
- Forged bars
- Other products:
- Tires
- Couplers
- Gear units
- Brake blocks
Advanced Technology
All out industrial potential is offered to the customer by means of our constantly improved plants and production processes. We use the most advanced technology and appropriate tools for each production line, according to the type of product.Information Technology is a vital tool in this organization and is applied to all the activity lines of this company.
CAF's production lines are in constant upgrading, and with to this end, the most advanced manufacture techniques are used:
- Steel vacuum degasification
- CAD implementation in forge projects
- Computer-controlled heat treatmentss
- CNC machines
CAF´s Production Control System is designed for on demand manufacture, in which the manufacture process of several products is simultaneously planned and controlled, from the design stage to the final finish.
In order to deal with this wide range of components, at CAF we have our own shops for:
- Steel vacuum degasification and ladle furnace
- Wheel forging and coating
- Wheel heat treatments
- Axle forging
- Axle heat treatments
- Tire forging and treatment
- Wheel and axle machining
- Gearbox, coupler and braking block assembly
- Wheelset and axle press fitting
- Flexible centers for machining
- General machining
- Static and dynamic balancing
