Sorefame
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| legal form | Sociedade anónima de responsabilidade limitada |
| founding | 1943 |
| resolution | 2005 |
| Reason for dissolution | Closure by the parent company |
| Seat | Amadora |
| Branch | Railway construction, metal technology |
Sorefame (suitcase word for So ciedades Re unidas de Fa bricações Me tálicas ) was a Portuguese company that manufactured railway vehicles and hydrotechnology, according to Dammtore. The company, founded in 1943, was split up in 1990 and closed in 2005 by the parent company Bombardier Transportation .
history
Sorefame was founded in 1943 and was active in two product fields, on the one hand the manufacture of railway vehicles and on the other hand in the field of hydrotechnology. In the 1970s, Sorefame had reached its peak in the number of employees with 4,100 employees.
In 1990 Sorefame was merged together with SMM, MAGUE and SEPSA to form Grupo SENETE , in whose capital the Swedish-Swiss technology group Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) held a 40% stake.
In the 1990s, the company was split up: the railroad construction division was named Sorefame , the hydrotechnology division was integrated under the name Hidro-Sorefame into the ABB-Hydro division, which was spun off in 1997 into a joint venture with Alstom and later was completely taken over by this, so that the former Hidro-Sorefame is now part of Alstom.
In 1996, the railway division became part of the ABB / Daimler-Benz joint venture Adtranz , which was taken over by the Canadian group Bombardier Transportation in 2001 . As part of a Europe-wide restructuring, in which plants in Germany and the former Adtranz plant in Pratteln, Switzerland fell victim, the Bombardier and former Sorefame plant in Amadora was closed.
Product range
The product range of the wagon and locomotive factory Sorefame includes almost the entire fleet of the Portuguese railway company Comboios de Portugal (CP). Especially at the time of the Estado Novo in the Salazar dictatorship , Sorefame was the CP's house supplier, but after the Carnation Revolution in 1974, the market was liberalized so that Sorefame concentrated on the production of licensed buildings .
So the CP series 1900 was created in 1981 based on the model of the SNCF CC 72000 from Alstom. Still in use today are available to the Corail-car design of the SNCF modeled Intercidades -vans and the Alfa Pendular which under license from Fiat Ferroviaria modeled after the ETR 460 / ETR 480 of FS / Trenitalia were manufactured. The vehicles ordered by Siemens in 1991 for the Linha de Sintra were also built in Amadora. Sorefame also built low-floor vehicles for the Carris , which are used on the Lisbon tram network .
Factory premises
The plant, located near Reboleira station , was handed over to further use by Bombardier after it was closed in 2005. For seven million euros, the infrastructure company REFER took over a little less than half of the area for use for train-related training courses. In 2008 the site was transferred to the CP subsidiary EMEF , which carries out maintenance and refurbishment work here. In addition, the EMEF relocated the headquarters from Lisbon to Amadora, where the service center and marketing department are now located. The rest of the site is used by the glass container manufacturer Sotancro .
Web links
- SOREFAME, Portugal: Reportagem fotográfica sobre a empresa SOREFAME, da autoria do Estúdio Horácio Novais (1930-1980). Flickr photoset of the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian with historicalphotos.
Individual evidence
- ^ Bombardier foi notificada sobre expropriação das instalações da Amadora. Público , August 28, 2005 (Portuguese)
- ↑ Empresa de manutenção da CP vai instalar-se na antiga Bombardier. Público, March 24, 2006 (Portuguese)
- ^ CP muda sede de Lisboa para nova cidade ferroviária na Amadora. Público, March 26, 2010 (Portuguese).