Eurovia - About us

About us

Activities

As a local partner, Eurovia, a subsidiary of VINCI, develops mobility solutions designed to enhance local economic competitiveness and strengthen social bonds by designing, building, and maintaining transport infrastructure and fostering urban development.

Eurovia's business lines: Aggregates Eurovia is one of the world’s leading aggregate suppliers, operating a network of 355 quarries and 150 aggregate recycling and re-purposing facilities. We assume our corporate responsibility, ensuring our processes...

Strategy

It is driven by a quest for operational excellence that places a strong focus on financial performance and safety, our top priority, which requires active involvement from management and employees, including temporary staff and sub-contractors, in a comprehensive and demanding approach to risk prevention.

Our growth strategy seeks to acquire or bolster leading positions in all the countries and regions in which we already operate around the world while also developing our works and industrial production activities. Eurovia also establishes new ways of creating...

The Eurovia Executive Committee

The Executive Committee leads the day-to-day operations of the company, meeting approximately 20 times a year.

2019 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 and is present in 15 countries.

Key dates

Eurovia was created as a result of increasing ties from 1918 onward among major players and pioneering entrepreneurs in the roadwork industry.

Eurovia has acquired the civil engineering company TNT in Quebec, a subsidiary of Transelec Common Inc. This acquisition reinforces the Eurovia Québec teams and network in ten regions of the province. Eurovia Québec delivers transport infrastructure and urban development projects for public and private sector customers.

Eurovia acquires TREV-2 Grupp in Estonia, one of Estonia's leading construction and civil engineering groups, founded in Tallinn in 1961. The group operates several asphalt production sites and a number of quarries. In addition, it holds several multi-year contracts for the maintenance and operation of local road networks.

Eurovia becomes one of the road works’ leaders in the United States East Coast with the acquisition of Lane Construction's asphalt production plants and quarries.

Eurovia has acquired the Latvian company Saldus Celinieks, spécialising in road construction, extraction of aggregates and asphalt production.

Its acquisition strengthens Eurovia's presence in the Baltic States where the market for works on transport infrastructure is very dynamic.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Quarry operations since 1962 in North Rhine-Westphalie

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.

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.

Eurovia launches the Aspha-min warm mixes, which will become the Tempera® product line.

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 acquires Teerbau in Germany.

Launch of the three-layer structure, a cost-effective and highly resistant road pavement solution.

Eurovia is founded as the result of the merger of two beacon SGE Group companies: Cochery Bourdin Chaussé and Viafrance.

Acquisition of Ringway in the United Kingdom, a specialized service provider.

EJL establishes itself in the Czech Republic via SSZ (roadway and railway construction).

EJL creates Flexiplast®, a two-layer complex designed to resist to reflective cracking.

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.

Cochery Bourdin Chaussé launches Fibracco, the first environmentally friendly fibre-based bituminous mix.

Creation of d’Etanplast®, a multi-layer waterproofing surface course complex for concrete engineering structure decks. It was used on the Normandie bridge.

After achieving a majority share of SGE, Cochery merges with Bourdin Chaussé.

Viafrance launches Microvia®, a fine-graded sand asphalt.

Development of very thin asphaltic overlay and porous asphalt, which are high value-added paving solutions (reduces energy consumption, reduces traffic noise, enhances drainage…).

Cochery and Ciments Lafarge create Bétonpact®, a compact cement concrete used to reinforce high-use industrial and high-traffic road surfaces.

The company Bourdin et Chaussé joins the SGE Group.

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).

Founding of the central laboratory at EJL.

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.