CAF France
CAF in France
CAF is a company which is more than a century old, and which has been operating in France since 2008.
In order to meet the challenges of sustainable mobility, CAF is committed to providing its French customers with low-carbon public transport solutions. CAF is a well-established industrial player in France, offering a wide range of rolling stock for rail and road, from trams to interregional trains, as well as light railways, TERs, night trains, and electric and hydrogen buses, thus providing many different solutions for the public transport of tomorrow.
In recent years, CAF has experienced strong growth in France, thanks to the contracts for the new Intercity trains for SNCF (Paris-Limoges-Toulouse and Paris-Clermont-Ferrand), which were won in 2019, and the new RER B trains, which were won in 2021, as part of a consortium with Alstom.
In 2022, CAF took over the railway site in Reichshoffen, Alsace, increasing its workforce from 200 to 1.000 employees. It also took over the Coradia Polyvalent regional train platform.
With this acquisition, the group now has two industrial sites in France, making it the second largest industrial player in the sector.
BAGNÈRES DE BIGORRE SITE - CAF France
- Operations: Manufacturing and testing of railway rolling stock
- Total surface: 42.000 m2
- Built surface: 23.500 m2
- Telephone: +33 5 62 91 05 55
- Fax: +33 5 62 91 05 77
The Bagnères-de-Bigorre factory, which was run by Soulé, CFD Bagnères and then by CAF since 2008, has been part of the French railway construction landscape for a century. Recently, the site housed the manufacturing for the Luxembourg tram, and it is now working on the renovation of the RER A trains and the construction of a rail tractor for RATP. In 2022, 150 people work there.
To improve its competitiveness and its social, environmental and regional impact, CAF is investing in the transformation of the site with the help of local, regional and national public authorities. The challenge is to build the factory of the future: versatile, sustainable and connected. The innovations range from internal logistics to production organization and they should enable significant productivity gains to be achieved.
CAF is working in parallel with the Communauté de communes de la Haute-Bigorre (CCHB), the Occitania Region and the State on the connection and reactivation of the Tarbes-Bagnères-de-Bigorre railway line. The objective is to reduce the number of trucks on this route and thereby limit the amount of pollution that they cause.
This location in Bagnères-de-Bigorre means that CAF is very involved in the structuring of a competitive rail industry in Occitania, working alongside the Region´s authorities. Specifically, the challenge is to supply a network of local suppliers, in an effort to promote French railway know-how.
With this in mind, CAF France is a member of the Board of Directors for the TOTEM project.
REICHSHOFFEN SITE – CAF France
- Operations: Design, manufacture and testing of railway rolling stock
- Total surface: 190 000 m2
- Built surface: 110 000 m2
- Telephone: +33 3 88 80 25 00
- Fax: +33 3 88 80 25 29
With 250 years of industrial and railway history, the Reichshoffen site became part of the CAF group in August 2022. This strengthened the group's offering for the regional train market, thanks to the Coradia Polyvalent product platform. More than 300 trains based on this platform are currently running across all regions of France, as well as in Senegal and Algeria.
Drawing on their expertise and know-how, the 700 men and women at the site control the entire train value chain, from design and testing, right through to warranty follow-up.
As a major player in the region´s economic scene, the Reichshoffen site works with more than 230 Alsatian suppliers.
BAGNÈRES DE BIGORRE SITE
- 3 route de Labassère CS 20221
- 65202 Bagnères de Bigorre
- France
- Email: contact.caf-france@caf.net
REICHSHOFFEN SITE
- 6 Rue de Strasbourg
- 67110 Reichshoffen
- France
- Email: contact.caf-france@caf.net
PARIS OFFICES
- 20-22 rue Marius Aufan
- 92300 Levallois-Perret
- France
- Email: contact.caf-france@caf.net