Nomad Tech is a Porto railway-technology company, created in 2013 as a joint venture between Nomad Digital and EMEF, the Portuguese railways’ rolling-stock maintenance company, that sells remote condition monitoring, power-electronics refurbishment and maintenance engineering for trains (Nomad Tech, Lda, NIF 510867111). Norway features from its first year — a condition-monitoring application for Norwegian State Railways (NSB) in 2013 — and in November 2025 it was one of 21 suppliers awarded framework agreements by Norske tog AS for technical advisory services, modification, repair and overhaul of rolling stock (TED 785701-2025).
Nomad Tech’s own history begins in 2013, when it was set up as a joint venture between Nomad Digital, a supplier of wireless solutions for transport, and EMEF, the Portuguese railways’ rolling-stock maintenance company. The same year it delivered TELMA, a remote online condition-monitoring application, to Norwegian State Railways (NSB) for all of its fleets — one of the first entries on its reference list. In 2017 it carried out reliability-centred maintenance consultancy for Norway’s Mantena and Finland’s VR, as well as for Swiss SBB, and its other references include DB Cargo, DB Schenker, Metro Trains Melbourne, South West Trains, Renfe and CP – Comboios de Portugal. The company, registered as Nomad Tech, Lda (NIF 510867111) at Rua Deniz Jacinto 270 in Porto and led by general manager Augusto Costa Franco, holds ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 14001 certification and COTEC Portugal’s Innovative status.
In Norway the relationship is now contractual at fleet level. On 26 November 2025 Norske tog AS published the award of its framework agreement for technical advisory services, modification, repair and overhaul of rolling stock (TED 785701-2025) to 21 suppliers, with a total value of NOK 1 billion recorded in the notice. Nomad Tech, Lda. is on the list alongside Alstom Transport Norway, DB Systemtechnik, DNV Business Assurance Norway, WSP Norge, Systra Norge and two of its own earlier clients, Mantena and VR FleetCare. No Norwegian-registered Nomad Tech entity was found in the Brønnøysund register. In Spain, a Renfe contract-award notice published in May 2026 gave Nomad Tech the repair of XHP power modules for Alstom Civia trains, for €565,927.92 (TED 331724-2026).
Rolling-stock engineering is a field where a mid-sized Porto company competes directly with Nordic, German and Italian engineering houses for the same framework. Nomad Tech’s Norwegian track record — a monitoring application for NSB in 2013, consultancy for Mantena in 2017 and now a place on Norske tog’s supplier framework — shows a Portuguese technology supplier building a Nordic customer base over more than a decade without a Norwegian-registered entity.
Público reported on 11 May 2025 that Alstom wanted to leave Nomad Tech, while CP was delaying its position on its right of pre-emption over the stake. The company’s commercial-register record shows changes to its governing bodies in October 2025 and January 2026. For other Portuguese rail suppliers in the Nordics, see Efacec’s battery-train charging stations for Banedanmark.
Sources: nomadtech.pt (About us, solutions); nif.pt and racius.com (Nomad Tech, Lda); EU Tenders Electronic Daily, notices 785701-2025 and 331724-2026; Brønnøysund Register Centre name search; Público (11 May 2025) via Google News. Spotted an error? Email miguel@fractio.se.
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