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IGF Industries

Type	Privately held company
Headquarters	Douai, France
Industry	Engineering, manufacturing, technologies & transport
Products	Engineering and transport
Website	www.a-f-r.fr

IGF Industries - Arbel Fauvet Rail (AFR) is a French railway manufacturer established in Douai, France. IGF INDUSTRIES undertakes the manufacture, design and sale of rail coaches of all types under the company names, ARBEL FAUVET RAIL. On June 29, 2007, it modified its company name to IGF INDUSTRIES - ARBEL FAUVET RAIL.

Trade name: ARBEL FAUVET RAIL - A.F.R.

A.F.R. studies, builds, and delivers all types of railroad cars, and goods trucks, answering the highest safety and quality standards, with most powerful technologies of logistics:

• tank cars, gases, chemical and oil,
• Intermediate bulk container, ship containers, Double-stack cars, and intermodal,
• hopper cars and cars for powders,
• autorack and other cars,
• cars of special use,
• bogies of cars,
• coaches, and Intermodal passenger transport

The head office of IGF INDUSTRIES - ARBEL FAUVET RAIL is located at 28 Avenue de Messine 75008 PARIS. The administrative headquarters, and the machine production are established in Douai, in the north of France (at one hour from Paris on the TGV), on an industrial site of 25 hectares, including 52,000 m² of surface covered and a network of almost 5 km of railways connected up on the domestic French railway network. The origin of the site of Douai comes from the Forging mills of Douai, founded by Lucien Arbel in 1869, which become the Arbel Establishments.

In 2008, it is the last manufacturer of French Rail coaches.

[edit] External References

• Arbel Faufet Rail Products
• Website of AFR
• Identity
• Group Website
• Contact Information

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