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THALES ESPAÑA

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Postal address Serrano Galvache, 56.
C.E. Parque Norte, Edificio Álamo.
E-28033 Madrid. Spain
Telephone +34 91 273 72 00   Fax +34 91 273 78 82   Web www.thalesgroup.es  
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Management team

General Manager of the Transport Division: Carlos Mezquita. Director of Sales and Business Development: Adolfo Aguilar. Director of Bids and Projects: Adrián Benito. Director of Strategy, Marketing and Communication: Adolfo Aguilar. Director of Customer Services and Support: Eduardo Mariscal.

Activity Development, manufacture, installation, commissioning and maintenance of systems and equipment for Railway Signalling, Train Control and Supervision and Telecommunication, supervision and ticketing systems and critical infrastructure security.

Main products and services

Railway safety systems and equipment, interlocks and electronic locking, continuous automatic train control systems (ERTMS/ETCS Levels 1 and 2), CBTC radio systems with and without mobile locking, automatic spot and semi-continuous train protection systems, centralized traffic control centres, protection systems for level crossings (automatic and interlocked), traffic regulation centres, signalling systems for low-traffic lines, electrohydraulic and electromechanical switch drives, electronic axle counters, track circuits, detectors of falling objects and all types of track elements.

Integration of critical supervision and control systems, fixed and mobile communication networks, video surveillance, access control, intrusion and fire detection, passenger information systems, SCADA, revenue collection and ticketing, vending equipment, ticket validation and control.

Cybersecurity solutions for railway systems. Digitization and decarbonization.

Operational support manager for the automation of industrial railway installations or low-speed passenger-free railway installations.

 

Top products: SIGNALLING: 1. ETCS Level 3. 2. Thales Fieldtrac Train Detection Systems. OPERATORS: 3. Thales Driver Advisory System (C-DAS) or GreenSpeed™. 4. DIVA.

 

Activities by year

CONTRACT HIGHLIGHTS 

Administrator of Railway Infrastructures ADIF 

- Drafting of the construction project and execution of the works to connect the Madrid-Seville and Cordoba-Malaga high-speed lines in the area of Almodovar del Rio (Cordoba). Traffic control, signalling and telecommunications installations.
- Drafting of the construction project and execution of works for the installation of automatic banalised blocking (B.A.B.) on the Figueres-PortBou section. 
- Execution of works for the installation of new falling object detection equipment (DCO) on the Madrid-Seville high-speed line.
- Drafting of the construction project and execution of works to remove the telephone blockage on the Ortigueira-Ribado section of the 740 Ferrol-Pravia line. 
- Execution of the construction project works for the removal of the telephone blockage between Torralba-Soria.
- Execution of works on the safety and communications installations project for the Vitoria-Gasteiz intermodal and logistics platform, Phase 1.1 and its standard gauge connection to the Atlantic Corridor.
- Execution of the construction project works for the suppression of the telephone blockage between Zafra-Huelva Mercancías and Zafra-Llano de la Granja.
- Maintenance services for the traffic control installations and complementary systems on the Lérida-Figueras high-speed section.
- Expert service for the adaptation of the Thales technology safety installations on the ADIF network.

Bizkaia Transport Consortium

- Actions and improvements in the SAGB and in the OACs system for the implementation of Barik Mobile in bulk and optimisation of data exploitation.
- Maintenance, evolution and updating of the Barik Card Administration and Management System.
- Hardware and software evolution of the Metro Bilbao Central Command Post to manage obsolescence.

Euskal Trenbide Sarea/Basque Railway Network (ETS/RFV) 

- Construction works of a new interlocking in Muxika

Government of Cantabria

- Control, information management and clearing centre and security platform of the unified integrated payment system for transport in Cantabria. a

National Network of Spanish Railways RENFE

- Maintenance of safety installations and motorisation of turnouts in BMSs and BMIs of RENFE Manufacturing and Maintenance

Spanish Ports

- Development of new functionalities of the safety installations of the railway terminals located inside the port of Huelva.
- Automation and monitoring of the Port of Marín, in Pontevedra.

Turkey

- 3-year maintenance contract for the signalling, communication, GSM-R and CTC control centre systems on the high-speed line between Sincan and Kosekoy, section of the Ankara-Istanbul high-speed line.
- Supply and support services of track circuits for Isparta-Burdur-Denizli line.
- Supply, design and support for installation, testing and commissioning of TTC track circuits on the Çerkezköy-Kapıkule section.


COMMISSIONED IN RELEVANT PROJECTS

Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias ADIF (Spanish Railway Infrastructure Administrator)

- Technical change of the ERTMS system on the Chamartín-Torrejón de Velasco line.
- Execution of construction works for the suppression of telephone blocking on the Ferrol - Ortigueira section (Line 740).
- Execution of works on the project for the installation of an electronic interlocking at Caldes de Malavella with Centralised Traffic Control (ctc) and Automatic Banalised Blocking with its collateral stations. Barcelona to Portbou line.
- Work on the construction project for the renovation of video surveillance, access control and anti-intrusion equipment on the Madrid - Lérida -Barcelona section.
- Renovation works for the Madrid-Lerida-Barcelona and Zaragoza-Huesca PDH access network.
- Awarding of the contract for the drafting of the construction project and execution of the works to modify the conditions for opening consecutive exit signals on several THALES technology interlockings in the northern operations sub-directorate.
- Commissioning of more than 300 audio-frequency track circuits using Thales technology (TTC) on the Madrid-Seville high-speed line.
- Commissioning of the change of parity at the Llinars, Cardedeu, Sant Celoni and Riells i Viabrea-Breda interlockings.
- New Cártama interlocking brought into service.
- Moreda interlocking modification.
- Commissioning Modification of CTCs Cordoba & Seville and interlockings at Peñaflor and Almendralejo.
- Commissioning of ERTMS N1 technology on the Seville-Cádiz line.
- Bringing into service of the side signalling of the new Granada interlocking and the new Albolote interlocking.

Bizkaia Transport Consortium

- Actions and improvements in the SAGB and in the OAC system for the implementation of Barik Mobile in bulk and optimisation of data exploitation.
- Maintenance, evolution and updating of the Barik Card Administration and Management System.
- Hardware and software evolution of the Centralised Control Centre of Metro de Bilbao to manage obsolescence.

Euskal Trenbide Sarea/Basque Railway Network (ETS/RFV)

- Construction of a new interlocking in Muxika.
- Updating of operation modules (OM) in the interlockings of the Amorebieta-Lebario section.

Bilbao Metro

- Securisation in the MB PMC: Implementation of the necessary modifications in the centralised command post of Metro Bilbao.

Ferrocarriles de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV)

- Provision of the La Marina interlocking for modernisation of the signalling on the Sangueta-Puerta del Mar branch line.

ENR (Egypt)

- Renewal of Signalling and Telecommunications systems on the Assyut Nagh Hammadi line. Commissioning of Girga, Abou Tig, Bardis and Balyana stations. 
- Renewal of Signalling and Telecommunications systems on the Cairo-Alexandria line. Commissioning of Alexandria
- Renewal of Signalling and Telecommunications systems on the Cairo-Benha line. Commissioning of Farz Waborat stations. 

TCDD (Turkey)

- Upgrading and commissioning of level 0 and level 1 of the Cumaovasi - Tepeköy suburban line.
- Commissioning of level 1 at Baskent Ray, Ankara railway network, and approval of the level 2 safety case by TCDD.
- Commissioning of level 0 and level 1 on phase 1 L0-L1 Baliseyh-Yerköy, on phase 2 L0 & L1 Kirikkale and on phase 3 L0 including TSRs of phases 1&2.
- Signalling technology level 0 of the Gaziray suburban railway system in the eastern city of Gaziantep.


SERVICES 

Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias ADIF (Railway Infrastructure Administrator) 

- Maintenance services for fixed telecommunications installations, GSM-R mobile telecommunications, mobile telephony operator infrastructure, central systems of the GSM-R network core, centralised telecommunications management systems, remote control of energy and remote control of detectors on high-speed lines: LAV Madrid-Valladolid and Olmedo-Medina branch; LAV Madrid-Sevilla and Córdoba-Málaga, La Sagra-Toledo branch; LAV Madrid-Valencia and Albacete-Albacete branch; LAV Madrid-Barcelona-French Border, Zaragoza-Huesca branch and Tarragona-Vandellós branch, GSM-R CORE central systems, Centralised Telecommunications Management Systems. 
- Maintenance of traffic control and complementary installations on the Madrid-Seville high-speed line, La Sagra-Toledo and Córdoba-Málaga branch lines. 
- Maintenance of traffic control and complementary installations on the Madrid-Segovia-Valladolid high-speed line.
- Maintenance of the interlocking installations, train protection systems, centralised traffic control, auxiliary detection systems, fixed telecommunications, GSM-R and protection and safety installations on the Olmedo - Zamora, Pedralba, Taboadela, Orense -Santiago section of the New High Speed Line on the North-Northwest High Speed Corridor. 
- Maintenance of the interlocking installations, train protection systems, centralised traffic control, auxiliary detection systems, fixed telecommunications, GSM-R and protection and safety installations on the Antequera - Granada section of the New High Speed Line.
- Maintenance of the interlocking installations, train protection systems, centralised traffic control, auxiliary detection systems, fixed telecommunications, and protection and safety installations on the section of the New High Speed Line Chamartín - Torrejón de Velasco junction.
- Expert technical support for maintenance of Thales equipment on ADIF's conventional network.
- Maintenance of signalling installations on ADIF's six Conventional Network Operational Sub-directorates.
- Expert service for adaptation of Thales technology security installations on the ADIF network.

- Preventive maintenance assistance and corrective support services for class B, C and F level crossing installations in the RFIG. 6 Lots, Lot 4: Northwest Operations Subdirectorate.

- Maintenance of the railway safety installations at the Port of Huelva.

Spanish National Railway Network RENFE

- Maintenance of LZB equipment for the automatic control blocking of s/446 trains in the Madrid hub.
- Maintenance of safety and turnout motorisation installations in BMSs and BMIs of RENFE Manufacturing and Maintenance.

Basque Railway Network / Euskal Trenbide Sarea (ETS)

- Maintenance of tram and railway safety installations. 

CTB (Bizkaia Transport Consortium)

- Commissioning of the new hardware and software infrastructure supporting the Barik multimodal contactless payment card.  In addition, it has been necessary to re-engineer the communications network. The meticulous planning of the work has enabled users of the Barik card to continue to use it without interruption, and without impact on the transport operators' networks.

FGV (Ferrocarriles de la Generalitat Valenciana)

- Maintenance of signalling installations, level crossings and operating telephony on the FGV network in Alicante. 

TCDD (Turkey)

- Maintenance of signalling and communications on the Ankara Istanbul high-speed line Phase 1, Phase 4 and Phase 2. 

FERROCARRILES SUBURBANOS S.A.P.I. (Mexico)

- Maintenance of the signalling and communications installations of the suburban railway of Mexico (Buenavista - Cuautitlán).

ENR (Egypt)

- Maintenance of traffic control systems on the Cairo - Alexandria and Asyut - Nahamadi railway corridor.

 

Innovations

Driven mainly by the digital transformation of the railway, through the application of digital technologies such as cybersecurity, connectivity (IoT, 5G, satellite, etc.), big data and artificial intelligence, the main activities have been:

-    Development and leadership of the TD2.10 Smart all-in-all connected wayside object controller demonstrator within the scope of the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking.
-    Monitoring and predictive monitoring of track circuits and turnouts
-    Comprehensive cloud-based CMMS maintenance system
-    Platform crossing warning systems
-    Broken rail detection systems
-    Facial recognition and passenger flow systems
-    Telephone blocking replacement systems.
-    GeoCV for intelligent farm aid manager
-    Portable on-board equipment (SiBU) with movement, location and command authorisation
-    Special intersection protection equipment associated with virtual warning and resetting technology.
-    Decentralised needle and leakage pathway cabinets and wireless connection for GE, with local operating support.
-    CCTV per train presence event.

Areas Worldwide, mainly Europe, Latin America, Asia and North Africa. Local presence in Turkey, Greece and Egypt.

Certifications - IRIS ISO-TS/22163. International Railway Industry Standard (IRIS) certification, an international benchmark created by the European Railway Industry Association (Unife).
- ISO 9001. Quality management systems. Certificate number ES112462-1
- ISO14001. Environmental Management System. Certificate number ES112467-1
- ISO 45001. Occupational health and safety management systems. Certificate number ES112466-1
- ISO 27001. Information Security Management Systems. Certificate number ES108039-A-1
- ISO 20000:2018. Quality of IT Services. Certificate number ES112415-1
- UNE 166002. Certification of R&D&I management systems. Certificate number ES115870-1.

No. of employees 881 (Qualified technicians: 85%).
R&D Investment 8% of sales.
Activities Maintenance, Operators, Signalling.
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