Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) is a Spanish rolling stock manufacturer headquartered in Beasain in the Basque Country. It builds trains for every passenger segment, from trams and metros to regional multiple units and high-speed trains. Signalling, maintenance and, through its Polish subsidiary Solaris, buses complete the group.
CAF is listed on the Madrid stock exchange. In 2025 the group reported revenue of EUR 4.49bn, of which EUR 3.30bn came from rail and EUR 1.18bn from buses. It employed 17,788 people at the end of the year.
New orders reached EUR 6.03bn in 2025, and the backlog stood at EUR 16.24bn at year-end. At 2025 revenue levels, the backlog equals more than three years of revenue.
The Civity family of electric, diesel and bi-mode multiple units is CAF’s main regional platform. The Sprinter New Generation commuter fleet of Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) is a Civity design. Oaris is the group’s high-speed platform, and the Urbos family covers trams and light rail.
Reichshoffen and the French market
On 1 August 2022, CAF took over Alstom‘s Reichshoffen plant in Alsace. The package included the Coradia Polyvalent regional platform and the Talent 3 design developed in Hennigsdorf, Germany.
The transfer was a commitment the European Commission required before it cleared Alstom’s acquisition of Bombardier Transportation. It kept the Coradia Polyvalent and Talent 3 designs outside the merged group.
Alstom kept its remaining obligations on Talent 3 orders and joined CAF in a consortium to complete the contracts already booked at Reichshoffen. The plant adds a second French production site to CAF’s existing plant at Bagnères-de-Bigorre.