COMSA
| Industry | Construction, infrastructure |
|---|---|
| Fate | Merged with EMTE |
| Successor | COMSA EMTE |
| Founded | 1891 |
| Founder | José Miarnau Navás |
| Defunct | 2009 |
| Headquarters | Barcelona, Spain |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Products | Construction and rail infrastructure |
| € 1,213 million (2007) | |
| Total equity | 313million Euros (2007) |
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Number of employees
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5100 (2007) |
Grupo COMSA was a Spanish construction and infrastructure company whose main business historically has been railway infrastructure work. Later the business expanded into more general construction and infrastructure work.
Since the 1990s the group has diversified into other business areas,
The majority of the group's employees were in Spain, with ~40% in other countries - the two other main areas by employee number being Australia and Poland.
In July 2009 Grupo Comsa and EMTE SA (Estudios, Montajes y Tendidos Eléctricos) merged to form COMSA EMTE.
The groups beginnings can be traced back to 1891 when railway employee José Miarnau Navás set up company to carry out railway infrastructure work in Reus (Tarragona). By 1930, the company became a public company and moved its headquarters from Reus to Barcelona. By the 1940s, the company had expanded into the general civil engineering field - building bridges, buildings and roads. By the 1980s, the company had expanded from its base in Catalonia having projects in Asturias, Andalusia, Galicia and Castile and León, and had also entered the real estate and aggregates businesses. The 1990s brought further diversification as well as the beginnings of an international presence with a subsidiary Fergrupo in Portugal.
The main railway and infrastructure businesses within Spain were organised within the company COMSA Empresa Constructora.
In Spain COMSA carried out all aspects of railway building from the planning stage to construction and maintenance; high profile projects included work on the infrastructure of the high speed Asturias link and Vitoria-Bilbao line. Other work included the construction of sidings for manufacturing companies including BASF, Ford Espania, Repsol Butano and Volkswagen, rolling stock shed and workshop construction, and electrification projects.
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