Mafex, the Spanish Railway Association, is the association that represents the Spanish railway industry, currently bringing together 111 companies that account for 83% of rail exports in our country.
Established 2004, we implement activities around 4 major areas:
Innovation
Institutional relations and strategic positioning
Marketing and communication
In order to achieve these goals our activities and services are geared towards:
- Promoting greater visibility of our member companies.
- Facilitating the exchange of knowledge and information, along with its dissemination.
- Collaboration with national and international institutions.
- Fostering collaboration amongst key players in the fields of internationalization and RTD.
Organisation structure
The highest governing body of the Association is the General Assembly. There is also a Steering Committee, elected by the latter and composed of associated companies. There are also 3 Committees formed by representatives of member companies: the International, Innovation and Communications Committees.
Both the Steering Committee and the Association itself are chaired by a President. At present, this presidency falls on ARCELORMITTAL ESPAÑA, represented by Mr. Víctor Ruiz Piñeiro.
In order to strengthen the role of the Association, the appointment of three vice-presidencies was also approved : Mrs. María Concepción Ortega from Idom Consulting, Engineering, Architecture, as first Vice president, Mr. Luis Fernández, from Thales Spain, as second Vice president. Jaime Hernani as Secretary and Mr. Pedro Fortea, current General Director of Mafex, holds the Executive Vice president position.
Members
railway in our country
total billed
employment
Collaborating entities
To boost the defence of the interests of the Spanish railway sector, from within MAFEX we boast a presence and participate in several business and institutional forums of which we are members, such as UNIFE (Association of the European Railway Industry) or CEOE (Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations). Furthermore, we are officially acknowledged by the Secretary of State for Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism as a collaborating association of the Ministry in matters of internationalisation, or by the Basque Government and SPRI as a railway cluster. We also regularly collaborate with the Ministry of Development, Renfe Railways Manager ADIF, the Foundation of the Spanish Railways, the Spanish Railway Technology Platform, ICEX Spain Export and Investment, CDTI (Centre for Industrial Technological Development and MetroTenerife), amongst others. We similarly collaborate internationally with the UITP (International Union of Public Transport) and with Alamys (the Latin American Association of Metropolitan and Underground Railways). Finally, it is noteworthy that MAFEX is member of AGEX Group, a federation that binds together three other industrial sectoral associations in Spain (AGRAGEX, SIDEREX and FUNDIGEX).