Eurovia (VINCI) is a world leader in transport infrastructure construction and urban development. Thanks to our industrial network – production of aggregates and materials for road and rail infrastructure – we control our own supply chain. In addition, we provide a vast range of services, including infrastructure maintenance, design-coordination services, and expert consulting as part of public-private partnership projects.
Transport infrastructure and urban development:
Eurovia’s core expertise is transport infrastructure and urban development: we build roads, highways, railways, airport platforms, and tramways as well as industrial and business sites.
Achievements
At Eurovia, every project and every worksite, whether in France or abroad, is unique. Each calls for specific and customized responses. From the rehabilitation of exceptional sites to the building of airport or light-rail platforms, including the development of new urban structures, implementation of special signs and markings, and use of innovative techniques and products, all of Eurovia’s achievements illustrate the Company’s solid expertise and skill sets.
Eurovia is focused on improving its overall performance and profitability, strengthening its industrial structure, pursuing its development worldwide, and diversifying its business lines. Eurovia’s activities are intensely people-centric; as a result, the Company has made occupational health and safety an absolute priority. Furthermore, we dedicate substantial resources to innovation in efforts to deliver solutions that foster sustainable development.
Eurovia aims to be the leader in its business lines and a choice partner for public and private sector clients. As the transport infrastructure expertise hub within VINCI (a privately held public works group), Eurovia is a major player in urban and regional development.
Management
Organization and management at Eurovia are based on a two-pronged approach: strong local presence combined with global scope. Our worksites promote teamwork and networking.
Eurovia is made up of nearly 1,300 industrial and commercial entities operating in 15 countries. Each national, regional, and local structure retains its commercial and operational autonomy. This corporate architecture allows us to be genuinely responsive to local needs.
Key figures
Eurovia was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of the VINCI Group, accounting for close to a quarter of its total revenues. The Company is present in 15 countries and generates 53% of its revenues outside France (Europe, Americas).
Eurovia was created as a result of increasing ties from 1918 onward among major players and pioneering entrepreneurs in the roadwork industry.
In Germany, Kurt Luër founds Teerbau and creates the first modern roads.
Founding of Vialit
Establishment of Entreprises Albert Cochery, specializing in tar distillation and use of blast furnace slag in road construction.
Founding of Salviam (“save the road”) by Charles Lefebvre.
Louis Chaussé and Sylvain Bourdin join forces to found a company specializing in compacting processes and roadway materials.
Vialit designs devices that enable it to mechanize its spraying
workshops.
Founding of Viasphalte
Founding of Compagnie industrielle des fillers (precursor of EJL in 1942).
Implementation of the first mobile paving units by Compagnie industrielle des fillers.
Refining of the Vialit test (determination of the cohesion bituminous binders with the pendulum test), which is still used in laboratories today.
Campenon Bernard acquires Viasphalte
Launch of Salviacim®, paving solution designed for industrial
facilities and resistant to heavy loads.
Jean Lefebvre has acquired Revêto, a company founded in 1927
which specializes in applied research. This acquisition will
contribute to efforts to develop new binder-production processes
and enhance road safety.
Founding of the central laboratory at EJL.
Viafrance is established following the merger of two roadwork companies: Société Française du Vialit and Viasphalte. The latter had been part of Campenon Bernard since after the Second World War (and in SGE Group since 1988).
The company Bourdin et Chaussé joins the SGE Group.
Cochery and Ciments Lafarge create Bétonpact®, a compact cement concrete used to reinforce high-use industrial and high-traffic road surfaces.
Development of very thin asphaltic overlay and porous asphalt, which are high value-added paving solutions (reduces energy consumption, reduces traffic noise, enhances drainage…).
Viafrance launches Microvia®, a fine-graded sand asphalt.
After achieving a majority share of SGE, Cochery merges with Bourdin Chaussé.
Creation of d’Etanplast®, a multi-layer waterproofing surface course complex for concrete engineering structure decks. It was used on the Normandie bridge.
Cochery Bourdin Chaussé launches Fibracco, the first environmentally friendly fibre-based bituminous mix.
From 1988 to 1990 EJL establishes itself in the United States with Hubbard Construction Compagny, in Spain with Probisa, and in Canada with Constructions Désourdy.
EJL creates Flexiplast®, a two-layer complex designed to resist to reflective cracking.
EJL establishes itself in the Czech Republic via SSZ (roadway and railway construction).
Acquisition of Ringway in the United Kingdom, a specialized service provider.
Eurovia is founded as the result of the merger of two beacon SGE Group companies: Cochery Bourdin Chaussé and Viafrance.
Launch of the three-layer structure, a cost-effective and highly resistant road pavement solution.
Eurovia acquires Teerbau in Germany.
SGE becomes VINCI and merges with GTM Group. As of 1986, Entreprise Jean Lefebvre had belonged to GTM; it now joins Eurovia within the VINCI Group.
Eurovia launches the Aspha-min warm mixes, which will become the Tempera® product line.
Eurovia reaches an agreement with Signature, a subsidiary of Compagnie Plastic Omnium specializing in road signs and markings. As of January 2008, it becomes the leader in Europe in road signs and extends its offering to include road equipment.
In September, Eurovia takes a leading position in the railway infrastructure sector with the acquisition of a top French railworks company, Vossloh Infrastructure Services, which becomes ETF-Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires.
Three companies join Eurovia: Han Group (paving solutions) in Romania; BA Blacktop (roadway infrastructrure specialist) in Canada; and Carl Risch Naturstein GmbH in Germany (quarry operations since 1962 in North Rhine-Westphalia).
Eurovia finalises the acquisition of 97 Tarmac quarries in France, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.
With this acquisition, Eurovia is increasing its aggregate production capacity in Europe by 40% and diversifying its materials sources and reserves in the countries where its road construction activity is rapidly expanding.
In the USA, Hubbard (Eurovia) has acquired two businesses
in Florida. The first, Tampa Pavement Constructors, Inc. (TPC), the
second, Roadway Management, Inc. (RMI), operates throughout the
south-east of the country. These acquisitions form part of
Eurovia’s policy in North America, which aims to submit all-in bids
for major road projects.
In France, Signature Group, a subsidiary of Eurovia, acquired
the assets of Groupe Laporte in the road signs sector.
Eurovia reaches the acquisition of NAPC, an Indian
construction and public works company based in Chennai, in the
state of Tamil Nadu. With this acquisition, Eurovia, one of the
leading players worldwide in the construction, upkeep and
maintenance of road and railway transport infrastructure, is
establishing a position in India, where its markets offer
interesting growth prospects, linked to the country's economic
dynamism.
Following the approval of the Canadian competition authorities, Eurovia has acquires Carmacks, a group of companies based in Edmonton, Alberta. Carmacks delivers highway construction and maintenance works but also operates and maintains road infrastructure under longterm contracts in Edmonton and Calgary. Traditionally active with local public authorities, the group has also developed a portfolio of private sector clients.
Eurovia integrates its rail-related activities under the ETF brand.
In France, seven regional divisions will provide maintenance for all networks, including the national railway system and private branch rail lines.
At the international level, ETF will now provide integrated solutions, as it pursues its activities in Thailand, Egypt, the Republic of Benin, Venezuela, India and Chile.
Eurovia reinforces its presence in Western Canada with the acquisition of Imperial Paving based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Imperial Paving delivers road construction works for local authorities located in the Great Vancouver Area.
Eurovia boosts its rail infrastructure positions in Canada with the acquisition of Canadian rail works contractor Rail Cantech.
Operating primarily in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, Rail Cantech provides engineering, construction and maintenance services for national railway networks, urban transport networks and industrial sidings.
Global & local presence
Eurovia’s local structures lead projects in their regions. All of these entities collaborate closely and function as a network. This combination of local presence and international scope allows each structure to benefit from technical expertise, key know-how, innovation, and logistics support from all entities. Eurovia is present in 15 countries through close to 1,300 industrial and commercial entities. The Company generates 47% of its revenues in France: 33% in Europe; 20% in Americas.
Canada
Chile
United States
Europe
Martinique
French Polynesia
Canada
Eurovia Canada encompasses DJL in Quebec, BA Blacktop in British Columbia and Carmacks in Alberta.
With a 30% market share, Bitumix is the leader in Chile in road construction and a major player in the bitumen product processing.
Bitumix has developed a strategic deployment of industrial and commercial facilities in Chile’s main municipalities and takes part in many different maintenance and road infrastructure construction projects.
Hubbard Group, a U.S.-based Eurovia subsidiary, consists of Hubbard Construction in Florida and Blythe Construction in North Carolina (both are major road construction companies in the southeastern United States).
Eurovia is present in much of Germany through companies that rank among the leaders in the road construction industry. It provides a vast range of expert services: roadwork, natural aggregate production, recycling of building materials, earthworks and sanitation, civil engineering, maintenance of engineering structures, production and installation of noise-attenuation barriers, and demolition of decommissioned infrastructure.
Eurovia Belgium, which is the result of the merger of Boucher and Cornez Delacre, carries out projects in the Walloon region and in and around Brussels. It is also present in Flanders through Grizaco (pavement maintenance, application of cold-mix bituminous solutions). Its industrial base includes three asphalt-production units, one quarry, and one hydrocarbon binder plant (Hydrocar).
The Signature group is present in Belgium through its subsidiaries Vandipaint and Ven den Weghe, which are based in Waregem in Flanders.
Their scope of activity extends throughout Belgium in accordance with their clients’ needs.
Vandipaint markets road marking products and Van den Weghe installs road markings and signs for both private and public sector clients.
Croatia
Tegra was created following the dismantling of GK Medjimurje, a State company established in 1973 to carry out all public works mandates in the Medjimurje region. Tegra specializes in sanitation and road maintenance and has been able to diversify through knowledge transfer involving France and the Czech Republic.
Through Probisa, Eurovia is active in Spain’s road construction and maintenance and urban development sectors. Its teams apply special road-surfacing techniques designed to foster road safety and environmental protection. With its 6 asphalt-production plants, 7 emulsion-production facilities, and 4 modified bitumen production units, the company is a national leader in the production of
road-building materials.
Eurovia’s activity in France was stable in 2009. The strength of our network, the sheer number of worksites we were involved in (some 35,000 throughout the year), and the diversity of our projects and areas of activity allowed us to resist the fluctuations in the economic environment.
Present in Lithuania since 1994, Eurovia is today a key figure in the construction of transport infrastructure. Eurovia Lietuva carries out road and rail works throughout the country.
Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires Luxembourg is active in rail construction and maintenance, decontamination of railway development sites, preventive track upgrade and track repairs, automatic train approach warning systems, aluminothermic welding and electrical welding processes, and automated production rail-grinding. Established in Petange, this subsidiary of ETF-Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires is active across Europe, mainly in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, and France.
Poland
Eurovia Polska was founded in March 2003 resulting from the merger of Beskidzkie Drogi and SPRD, subsidiaries of Eurovia since 1998. Initially, the company’s activity was limited to southern Poland (Katowice, Cracow, Bielsko Biala); in 2007, however, it embarked upon an expansion strategy and quickly developed outward from a compact network of asphalt-production plants.
CS Eurovia is the leader in roadway construction in the Czech Republic. It builds, upgrades, and maintains road and rail infrastructure, bridges, and sports facilities for private and public sector clients. As an experienced participant in PPP projects, the company provides expertise in financial engineering. Its knowledge and skill sets, in complement with those of other VINCI subsidiaries, can meet the objectives of major construction projects.
For the most part, Viarom carries out excavation work and roadwork for private-sector clients; however, the company is increasingly active in the area of public works.
Ringway plays a key role in public-private partnership (PPP) road maintenance projects for the country’s Highways Agency and county and district authorities as well as private operators. PPP contracts account for three-quarters of their projects. Since its integration within Eurovia in 1996, Ringway has experienced strong growth and development beyond southeast England all the way to Scotland but retains a consistent level of activity in London.
Eurovia has been present in Slovakia since 1999. Eurovia SK, which specializes in roadwork and is well-established in the eastern part of the country (Kosice, Poprad), is increasingly active in the western half, notably, in the capital, Bratislava. Its 11 quarries located in central and eastern Slovakia produce and sell 2 million tonnes of materials a year.
Caraïb Moter, a leader in the public works sector, is the result of a merger in 2004 of Caraïb (leader in roadwork in Martinique) and Moter (hydraulic works, retaining walls, precast concrete, etc.). The company is focused on roadwork and road upgrade, urban development, and marine work.
French Polynesia
JL Polynésie, founded over 25 years ago, is a major player in the public works sector in French Polynesia. Its operations have been recentralized in Tahiti where the company’s activity is more regular and sustained. Since 2000, it has been taking part in all major infrastructure development projects. It also provides services in the areas of networks, sealing, roadwork, and technical landfills.
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