IN THIS ONLINE SESSION, WHICH WAS ATTENDED BY 65 COMPANIES, THE MORE THAN 200 ACTIONS CARRIED OUT BY MAFEX IN 2019 WERE PRESENTED, AS WELL AS THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN CARRIED OUT IN ITS VARIOUS GROUPS AND COMMITTEES OVER THE LAST YEAR, WHICH FOCUS ON KEY ISSUES SUCH AS INTERNATIONALISATION, COMPETITIVENESS AND COMMUNICATION.
MAFEX, the Spanish Railway Association held its annual General Assembly on 11th November in online format, where more than 65 member companies were present. During the session, there was a review of the work that the association has been carrying out in its various groups and committees over the last year, which focuses on key subjects such as internationalisation, competitiveness and communication.
A balance was also drawn up of the more than 200 actions that were organised and/or coordinated by MAFEX. It should also be noted that, within the framework of this annual General Meeting, 11 companies that joined MAFEX since the General Meeting last year were present: Agui, AIMEN Centro Tecnológico, CEIT, Enyse, Electran, Goal Systems, Ingeniería Viesca, Lantania, NRF España, SGS Spain and Tekniker.
All of them are companies with headquarters or established in Spain that have an important export component in the railway field. The association currently has 93 partners, whose railway turnover in 2019 amounted to more than 5.5 billion euros – 80% of which was in foreign markets and employing more than 30.000 people.
For MAFEX, these results are an example of the intensification of the R&D policies of its partners, its commitment to the international market, as well as the strength of a leading industry, highly qualified and with a great competitiveness and capacity to excel. These figures reflect that the consolidation takes place in the big companies as well as the SMEs.