Compañía de Construcciones y Forjas Ferroviarias (CCFF)

CCFF Group

Company type	Public
Traded as	CFP
ISIN	NL0015000LU4
Industry	Manufacturing
Founded	1882 as “Metales y Rieles de Montia”
Headquarters	Montia , Pelaxia
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Domínico Holler (CEO)
Products	Trains Buses Machinery Cars
Services	Transportation
Revenue	$Sl 7,900,000,000
Number of employees	Approximately 45,000
Subsidiaries	List MontiaBus Motores Lima Trotter

Compañía de Construcción y Forjas Ferroviarias (CCFF, literally "Company of Construction and Railway Forges") is a Pelaxian publicly listed company which manufactures railway vehicles, rolling stock, heavy industrial equipment and buses through its MontiaBus subsidiary. It is based in Montia, Pelaxia. Equipment manufactured by CCFF includes light rail vehicles, rapid transit trains, railroad cars and locomotives, as well as variable gauge axles that can be fitted on any existing truck or bogie. Over the 70 years from the early 1950s, CAF benefited from the rail investment boom in its home market in Pelaxia to become a world player with a broad technical capability, able to manufacture almost any type of rail vehicle. The company has supplied railway rolling stock to a number of major urban transit operators around Alshar, Levantia and Sarpedon.

The company is well known for its Búfalo Steam Engine series. And its the first train and rolling stock manufacturer and supplier in Pelaxia, followed by Talleres Ferroviarios Nacionales

History

The company started out as the Metales y Rieles de Montia (Metals and Rails of Montia) during the Solis Government in 1882 manufacturing machines, rails and rolling stock for the mining industry and founded by Ernesto Lima. By 1901 the company was employing over 3,000 people. As similar control mechanisms were used for steam-driven automated weaving looms and for stream-driven railway traversers and turntables, Lima also founded the Motores Lima (Lima Engines) in 1910. In the 1950s the company stopped manufacturing normal locomotives and started to concentrate on tracking machines (ballast tampers), and adopted its current name. Since the early 1990s, CCFF has also been active internationally. In the early 2000s, CCFF supplied electric and high-speed trains to the Pelaxian VDP, Transcon, Metrolink and Central, and in 2005, high-speed trains were exported for the first time.

Subsidiares

CCFF manufactures specialised rail vehicles used for infrastructure and service trains, as well as electric and diesel shunting machines, shunting locomotives, steam locomotives and stationary shunting equipment. The company also manufactures a wide variety of rail service equipment including lifting equipment, traversers and turntables and equipment for wheelset maintenance including wheel and bogie drop machines, and wheelset and bogie measuring equipment. CCFF has a contract to supply VDP with a factory train which will be used in the Albalitor-Vila Real HSR project. The company also manufactures equipment for heavy industrial plants, including steel-works equipment such as ladle transporters and tippers, torpedo wagons, and machinery for steel coil handling.

Products

Carriages

Name	Variant	Image	Notes
Regional 300	EMU and DMU		Regional passenger trains. Available as both diesel, electric and battery-electric multiple unit, the Regional was first launched in 2010 and received its first order two years later.
CM 300/400	EMU		Electric multiple units designed to provide effective commuter services in major urban centers in Pelaxia were introduced in 1990.
CM 500	EMU		Commuter electric multiple unit introduced in 2015.
CM 560	EMU		Commuter electric multiple unit introduced in 2018.
CM 600	EMU		Class of electric multiple unit trains for the commuter railway networks in Pelaxia. The first units entered service in 2020. The CM 600 train concept was created with passenger comfort and build quality in mind, and to meet the goals of reliability, frequency and punctuality. They have better provision for disabled passengers than older trains.

Locomotives

Name	Variant	Image	Notes
Multicarga 79	Electric		Introduced in the 1980’s. The locomotives have a C-C wheel arrangement, and are equipped with monomotor bogies, which have switchable gear ratios.Their maximum axle load is 22 tonnes.
Multicarga 90	Electric		The series of locomotives were ordered to modernise VDP fleet and to provide traction on the new standard gauge, on Pelaxian gauge lines they were to replace previous classes which were of some age, and incapable of speeds of 200 km/h; the order coincided with the construction of the first standard gauge high speed line in Pelaxia.
Clase Montiana	Steam		Industrial class of steam locomotive designed in the 1930s and re-designed in the 1950s.
Clase Albalitoria	Fireless Steam		Industrial fireless steam engine class which uses reciprocating engines powered from a reservoir of compressed air or steam, which is filled at intervals from an external source. They offer advantages over conventional steam locomotives of lower cost per unit, cleanliness, and decreased risk from fire or boiler explosion; these are counterbalanced by the need for a source to refill the locomotive, and by the limited range afforded by the reservoir.
Clase Cafir	Articulated Steam		Industrial articulated steam locomotives built in 1952 and 1953.