VINCI - 2005 annual report
VINCI - 2005 annual report
VINCI - 2005 annual report
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ENERGY / BUSINESS REPORT<br />
Despite a diffi cult<br />
economic<br />
environment,<br />
<strong>VINCI</strong> Energies<br />
business units<br />
operating in the<br />
industrial sector<br />
expanded<br />
their activity<br />
and increased<br />
their market share<br />
in <strong>2005</strong>.<br />
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<strong>VINCI</strong> <strong>2005</strong> ANNUAL REPORT<br />
Industry<br />
In <strong>2005</strong>, <strong>VINCI</strong> Energies stepped up the<br />
implementation of its strategy aimed at structuring its<br />
service offering for industry in two major Europe-wide brands: Actemium in<br />
electrical engineering and installation and Opteor in maintenance. Combining<br />
strong local roots, which generate a large number of small recurring contracts,<br />
with a global systems integration approach, the strategy meets the dual market<br />
demand: industrial groups expect high-quality local service to maintain and<br />
optimise their existing sites and also seek multi-site solutions, particularly to<br />
support the creation of new production centres on their growing markets.<br />
Applying the strategy - and building on their in-depth familiarity<br />
with industrial processes and the requirements of their customers in the areas<br />
of productivity, quality, traceability, environmental protection and accident<br />
prevention and safety - <strong>VINCI</strong> Energies business units also increased<br />
their market share in the industrial sector in <strong>2005</strong>, against an economic<br />
backdrop which, while diffi cult, offered many opportunities.<br />
Activity was particularly brisk in the automotive sector. Group business<br />
units completed a large number of projects for French automakers, both<br />
at their historic sites and their international locations, such as the PSA plant<br />
in Trnava, Slovakia (see below). The petrochemical and natural gas industries<br />
also generated a substantial volume of business. In the environment sector,<br />
tightened regulatory constraints - especially those relating to fumes emitted<br />
by waste treatment plants - helped boost business activity.<br />
Moreover, the development of cross-border cooperation across <strong>VINCI</strong><br />
Energies’ European networks was further boosted at the end of the year<br />
by major orders placed by food processing groups Masterfoods and Veltins<br />
as well as by Michelin for its Polish location.<br />
In this context, business units operating under the Actemium brand<br />
generated revenue of €400 million in <strong>2005</strong>, up 10% from the previous year.<br />
The increase was 30%, to €65 million, for the Opteor network business units.<br />
ACTEMIUM: A PSA PEUGEOT-CITROEN PARTNER IN EUROPE<br />
The deployment of the Actemium brand (electrical engineering and PLCs) in Europe supports industries in their new location<br />
projects as well as in the modernisation of their existing sites. As a longstanding partner of Peugeot-Citroen in France, Actemium<br />
worked for two years on the automotive group’s new site in Slovakia, which will be producing 55 vehicles an hour. The systems integration contract covered<br />
implementation of the parts conveyor system among the different shops as well as the design and installation of a fl oor production line comprising 40 robots. In<br />
other work for PSA Peugeot-Citroen, Actemium developed a new conveyor table without telescopic arms and equipped with a “friction wheel”. The device won<br />
the Special Ingenuity Prize at the <strong>VINCI</strong> <strong>2005</strong> Innovation Awards and has been successfully installed at the PSA Peugeot-Citroen sites in Poissy, France and Trnava,<br />
Slovakia (opposite).