VINCI - 2005 annual report

Acquisitions
16
companies acquired
Lighting in Marseilles
The city of Marseilles awarded a fi ve-year
contract to a consortium led by Citéos
(VINCI Energies) to operate its public
lighting and heritage illumination systems.
The contract covers 69,000 lighting points
and requires the establishment of a
25-person dedicated team and a
high-performance operations support system.
basis (of which €110 million outside France) joined the group in 2005. They
included NK Networks & Services (company communication) and Lagrange
(climate engineering) in Germany; Sotécnica (industry and service sector) in
Portugal; and Darlavoix (energy infrastructure), Electrolor (energy infrastructure
and service sector) and IDF Thermic (climate engineering and industrial
refrigeration) in France.
Infrastructure
ENERGY / BUSINESS REPORT
In France, the high voltage and very high voltage network activity
(Omexom brand) rose by 20% to €137 million. Growth was spread across
all market segments - lines, transformer stations and monitoring and control.
The effort to diversify into manufacturing industry paid off with two major
new transformer station contracts, one at the Normandy site of paper group
UPM Kymmene (see below), the other for the Aubert & Duval steelworks near
Clermont Ferrand, where a new 225 kV transformer station was installed
to supplement the existing (63 kV) one.
In Spain, where the overall economic environment was excellent, activity
at Spark Iberica, which has doubled in two years, remained brisk on a buoyant
power system infrastructure market.
On local rural electrifi cation markets, business activity picked up in
the spring to offset a diffi cult start to the year due to inclement weather.
In the regions concerned, VINCI Energies business units marshalled their
forces to repair the damage caused by a storm on 17 December 2004.
The urban lighting and heritage illumination business activity (Citéos
brand) continued to grow. New multi-year contracts won by the group during
the year included the global lighting management contract, in a consortium,
for the city of Marseilles, as well as two high-profi le projects: the illumination
of the Place Stanislas in Nancy and the Château Saint Sauveur le Vicomte
in northern France, which won the 2005 Serce Philips Eclairage Lighting
Competition Award.
VINCI Energies also consolidated its excellent position on the urban
transport infrastructure market, taking part in the construction of tramway
lines in Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lyons and Valenciennes – on which it often
worked with VINCI Construction and Eurovia companies – and obtaining
a new order for the tramway in Le Mans (the low voltage, audiovisual
transmission and building management system works packages).
SHIELDED TRANSFORMER STATION FOR THE PAPER INDUSTRY
SHIELDED TRANSFORMER STATION FOR THE PAPER INDUSTRY
Four Omexom business units (high-voltage power transmission and transformation) mounted, connected and tested a
225 kV ABB transformer station at the UPM Kymmene paper group’s La Chapelle Darblay plant near Rouen. The “shielded”
station is the fi rst of this type to be installed in France. The €1.6 million contract consolidates Omexom’s diversifi cation into the private- sector market.
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