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Management team: In Lithuania, for Lithuanian Railways, we continue with the
General Director of the Transmission & Infrastructure vertical of project of electrification of the Vilnius-Klaipeda railway corridor,
Abengoa: Pablo Infante Cossío. where notable progress has been made in the development of
Head of T&I Railway division: Raúl Santiago Pérez. project engineering, as well as in the purchase of part of the
Head of T&I Railway Engineering: Juan Carlos Cortés Rengel. strategic equipment and railway machinery necessary for the
execution of the project. guía de empresas
Activity: Construction, infrastructures, energy electrification,
railway electrification, construction of renewable plants, In Saudi Arabia, for the Saudi Railways Organization, the
electrical and mechanical installations, telecommunications, maintenance phase of the electrification infrastructures of the
signalling, manufacturing of electronics and auxiliary electrical Mecca-Medina high-speed train has begun, in which Abengoa
equipment, manufacturing of metal structures, engineering and participated as one of the members of the Spanish consortium
consulting, maintenance. that built the project.

Main products and services: Innovations:
Engineering, construction and industrial maintenance of Abengoa has continued its work on numerous innovation
infrastructure in the energy, industry, environment, transport projects in the railway area during 2021. Below, we detail some
and communications sectors: transmission and distribution of them.
lines, railway electrification, installations and infrastructures
for all types of plants and buildings, electrical and electronic The Railway Innovation Hub
ancillary manufacturing and metal structures. Since 2016, Abengoa has participated in The Railway Innovation
Hub, a railway cluster based in Malaga of which Abengoa
Top products: ELECTRIFICATION: 1. Abengoa Construction was one of the founding companies and currently holds
and maintenance of railway electrification. ENGINEERING the vice presidency. The Railway Innovation Hub aims to
AND CONSULTING: 2. Abengoa Railway Engineering. become a benchmark for railway innovation both nationally
and internationally by supporting the sector and with the
Activities in the year: involvement of its more than 80 associates.
In Spain, we continue to work with our client Adif for the
maintenance of the Antequera-Granada, Madrid-Zaragoza- Among the most significant projects developed by the HUB
Barcelona-French border, Madrid-Alicante, Madrid-Córdoba- we highlight the “Standardization of Hyperloop systems”, the
Málaga-Seville, Madrid-Toledo and Madrid-Valladolid high-speed “Implementation of the BIM methodology in the railway sector”
lines. Likewise, the maintenance work on the conventional or the “Station of the future”.
railway lines and substations in the central (based in Madrid)
and northeast (based in Barcelona) areas. Rail breakage detection, BIM tool and Alis Project

Also for Adif, the works for the electrification of the Madrid- In the last year, Abengoa has continued to carry out tests and
Levante high-speed line, on the stretch to Murcia and the trials of these innovation projects in the railway area, obtaining
installation and maintenance of the protection, security and satisfactory results. It is currently in process of protection of
telecommunications systems in the Pajares tunnel continue to results and commercialization of the developed systems.
be carried out.
Specifically, Rail Breakage is a rail break detection system that
In the United Kingdom, and within the multi-year contract works on high-speed lines in real time. This system is the only
with Network Rail (NwR) in the Anglia region, an extension has one in the world capable of detecting breaks and identifying
been contracted for the installation of harmonic filters in the them in real time for railway infrastructures.
containerized substation of Bulls Lodge feeder station.
The BIM (Building Information Modelling) tool has been
Also for NwR, have been hired and started the work of the Safer conceived for the automated three-dimensional design of
Faster Isolations project, of which an new extension is being catenaries and railway traction substations. The software is
negotiated due to its good development. in advanced process and is expected to be ready during the
present time.

In France, for Société nationale des chemins de fer français About the Alis project, it is a comprehensive simulation tool that
(SNCF), we continue to work on the execution of traction allows simulating electrification, safety and energy efficiency
substation projects. systems in railway systems. The company continues to carry out

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