Emprendimientos Ferroviarios S.A. (Emfer) was an Argentine rail rolling stock manufacturer based in

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. The company also remodelled and repaired rail vehicles and had previously manufactured rolling stock for the

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and

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commuter rail lines in Buenos Aires. The Emfer rail rolling stock ran on the two lines until 2014 when they were replaced with

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. The company's main factory in San Martín once belonged to the state-owned

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(which manufactured military products in addition to rail rolling stock). During its last years, the company was managed by brothers Mario and Claudio Cirigliano, who had been prosecuted following the Once tragedy in 2012. In January 2014 they decided to sell EMFER after the government of Argentina removed their concession to run the

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. Later in 2014 the company became a subsidiary of

, with the takeover intended so that the Chinese firm could build rail rolling stock in Argentina. After the takeover, CSR fired 40 former EMFER workers.

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