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[Our own way 🙌] That’s a wrap for our highway rehabilitation project in the USA! Delta Companies Inc., one of our Colas USA subsidiaries, has recently put the finishing touches on its Route 60 rehabilitation project in Missouri! Teams were responsible for: • Milling the existing road and shoulder • Laying new pavement over a distance of more than 45 km (about 30 miles). A special feature of these works was a brand-new portable plant that made a stop at the worksite to manufacture asphalt mix, before moving on to its final destination at our Reeves Construction Company subsidiary in Georgia. The project will enhance user comfort and safety on this major American highway. Check out a photo below of our team members working on the site! #CreatingConnections #WeOpenTheWay #ColasDares

[Colas se dévoile en vidéo 🎬] Fiers d'être à vos côtés 🤝 Chaque jour et depuis près d’un siècle, nous sommes ceux qui relient les gens. Nous sommes au service de tous les territoires. Avec 200 établissements travaux et 170 carrières répartis partout en France, nous sommes fiers de vous accompagner dans vos plus beaux projets. Plongez au cœur de ce qui nous relie 👇 📹 Merci à l'Agence Satellite pour la production de cette vidéo et pour la valorisation de nos chantiers depuis plus de 10 ans. 

[More than a job 💛] A family affair Suwannee, Chanchira and Suwanna are more than just three team members participating in the expansion of Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand... they are sisters! A close-knit family, the siblings are quite a talking point, and their professionalism and expertise make them an invaluable part of the team. The project on which they are working involves the construction of runway 3 and its taxiways, including lighting and control systems. Expected to wrap up by the end of this year, the works are designed to increase the airport's operational capacity, making Bangkok a hub for the entire Southeast Asian region. Want to learn more about Suwannee, Chanchira and Suwanna’s story? Check out the slideshow below 👇 or click here  👉  https://swll.to/NUgGcjj Tipco Asphalt Public Company Limited  #ColasCares #ColasDares #CreatingConnections

[We ACT for the planet🌍] To improve, we must measure! Colas is committed to promoting circular economy solutions and preserving natural resources. The circular economy is the focus of the second episode of our series “Colas CSR Key Figures.” This series introduces Colas' eight CSR commitments and presents the indicators that allow us to both follow our progress in these eight areas and evaluate where we are. Swipe through the slideshow below to learn more, and check back in soon for new episodes! #CSR #ColasCares #WeOpenTheWay

[Let's talk innovation 💡] Working together to test dynamic induction charging Last week, our R&D teams took part in the final event for INCIT-EV, a European project putting several new ways to recharge electric vehicles to the test. In all, 33 partners carried out seven tech demonstrations across several European countries. 👉 The use case in which Colas participated along with VEDECOM, Stellantis, Enedis and Université Gustave Eiffel, in addition to the Ville de Paris, involved a dynamic induction charging prototype designed for an urban environment. In other words, the vehicle charged while it was in motion. The demonstration covered a distance of 30 meters (about 100 feet) along a street in the north of Paris. For this test, Colas France and AXIMUM (Groupe COLAS) teams embedded “contactless” electronic equipment into the road. These copper coils, laying invisible beneath the pavement surface, used magnetic resonance induction to charge electric vehicles driving above. The goal was to achieve two kilometers (about 1.2 miles) of autonomy for a speed of 30 km/h (about 20 mph) along this 30-meter stretch. Want to learn more about the test? Check out the video below! #ColasDares #COREcenter

🙌 𝗔𝗴𝗶𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 🌴 Au sud-ouest de Madagascar, à 15 kms de Tuléar, dans un petit village de pêcheur nommé Tsingoritelo, #COLAS poursuit son appui à l’éducation et la préservation de l'environnement. 👧 👦 𝟳𝟬 𝗲́𝗹𝗲̀𝘃𝗲𝘀 issus de l’école des Salines de l’ONG Bel Avenir se sont mobilisés pour reboiser une zone de mangrove. 👉 Le temps d’une journée, 𝟭 𝟬𝟬𝟬  pieds de palétuviers y ont été plantés.   𝗣𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹’𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲… 3 années maintenant que #COLAS est en partenariat avec Kinomé dans le cadre du programme d'éducation environnementale 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧&𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘. Un programme visant à faire découvrir aux enfants l’importance des écosystèmes forestiers de leur territoire et les inciter à protéger leur environnement.   𝗟𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗲… Durant une année scolaire, ces élèves ont suivi un 𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗲́𝗱𝗮𝗴𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 en correspondance avec des élèves en France sur la biodiversité et l’importance de la sauvegarder. Ils concrétisent cet apprentissage par un geste fort : 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗿𝗲𝘀.    🙏 Merci à la Direction du Groupe #Colas et de COLAS Madagascar. 🙏 Merci à Kinomé, à l’association Eau de Coco et à l'ONG #Bel_Avenir pour cette action forte de sens.   👏Et un grand bravo aux enfants pour leur engagement en faveur de l’environnement.   𝑨𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆 𝒍'𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒆𝒕 𝒍𝒂 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆́ 𝒅𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒄'𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆̀𝒓𝒆 𝒆́𝒕𝒂𝒑𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆́𝒈𝒆𝒓.   #partage #respect #audace #rse #education

#Commissioning 🚇   A 40-minute journey from Orly airport ➡️ Saint-Denis is now possible thanks to #line14 of Paris metro! 🚦   Following the design of the 6km northern extension between St Lazare and Mairie de Clichy, Colas Rail France, in a consortium with ETF (lead contractor), has completed the southern extension of line 14 of the Paris metro. This 13.4 km concrete extension now provides a link between Maison Blanche station and Orly airport in just 40 minutes! ⌚   The consortium, on behalf of its client RATPgroup, was responsible for: ✅The design ✅The installation & commissioning of the track and linear equipment package   In a contract linked to the work on line 14 South, Colas Rail also laid the 4.4 km of track and 19 switches at the line 14 maintenance and storage site, based in Morangis. ⚙️   We are proud to have contributed to transforming mobility for 1 million passengers a day by creating sustainable mobility solutions for today & tomorrow. ♻️   Société des grands projets   #Line14 #UrbanMobility #PublicTransport #GrandParisExpress #ParisMetro

Creating new traditions while embracing diversity! Our Line Marking and Symbols team, part of Miller Maintenance, is proud to paint crosswalks in support of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Painting with local communities, together we make a difference by transforming everyday asphalt into symbols of acceptance, love and unity. #TheMillerGroup #BuildingGreatness #Pride #PrideCrosswalk

[Our ambassadors 🎙] Almost a year after Pierre Vanstoflegatte became CEO of Colas, he gave his initial assessment of the Group’s activities to Le Moniteur magazine. In the below abridged version of the interview with Jérémy Bellanger, our CEO lays out his road map and the Group’s major strategic axes. 💬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 “I began with a tour of our subsidiaries to better grasp the specific challenges of our activities. This process, which I am continuing every other week, is still ongoing, because we are present in some fifty countries. But nonetheless, I already have an idea of what makes our group special: a strong local presence and the capacity to cover two worlds, construction works and industrial activities, i.e. the production of materials.” 💬 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐚𝐩 “Our major international development strategic axes remain unchanged. We will continue to focus on the United States and Canada as well as on Europe, where we have ambitions in Germany and in Scandinavia, and to a lesser extent in Australia. Regarding our businesses, we are now starting the second phase of the rollout of a corporate project we launched three years ago, which involves reaffirming the importance of our industrial activities and developing the performance of our aggregate production sites.” 💬 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 “The course of history is not towards the stopping of production, but rather to produce under better conditions with less environmental impact. The fact that the time required for opening new sites is getting longer demonstrates that the stakes of environmental and societal acceptability are increasingly being taken into account. On all levels (water, air, dust, noise, etc.), the requirements are becoming stricter in a process which I consider to be healthy.” 💬 𝐔𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 “There are obvious differences in terms of maturity between various countries. […] As a company, it is our conviction that we must recycle some of the materials that we process. […] Developing the circular economy is fundamental because, in addition to improving the carbon footprint of our construction activities, it offers a complement if the market for natural aggregate production were to decline.” 💬 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 “Strengthening road and rail asset maintenance and adopting a mindset of anticipation and planning mean a lower carbon footprint. The second lever we hope to see become more common is construction solutions that are more environmentally responsible. That is why we are investing heavily in the development of bio-sourced, low carbon, and recycled products…” To read the full article (French only) 👉 https://swll.to/GlU5O #ColasCares #ColasShares #ColasDares 📸 Bruno Levy / Le Moniteur

[Let’s talk innovation 💡] A core force for innovation At Colas, R&D has a name: CORE (for COlas REsearch). In an ever-changing world, we must constantly innovate and drive mobility research forward. Our research activities are aimed at finding solutions for more responsible and sustainable mobility. Along with our private R&D center, the Core Center, 22 of our total 270 laboratories around the world are involved in R&D at Colas. At these R&D labs, specialized teams are currently working on conceptualizing, designing and developing many research projects. They take responsible mobility products, techniques and infrastructure solutions from idea all the way through to delivery via development and testing. 💪 👉 If you’re curious to see what R&D looks like at Colas, check out the below photos both from our archives and taken in present day! #WeOpenTheWay #WeActForInnovation #ColasDares