OHL Group Annual Report - Grupo Villar Mir

2010 OHL Group Annual Report
This company has decided to expand its services to include the supply and assembly
of concrete structures for the areas of building construction and roadways. Given
its wide variety and volume of manufactured pieces, this supplier ranks among the
leading concrete product suppliers in the Czech Republic.
ŽPSV has seven factories in the Czech Republic, and the key countries in its strategy of
expansion abroad are Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. Its subsidiary
ŽPSV a.s. Čaña acts in the Slovak Republic, specializing in the manufacture of concrete
components, such as railway sleepers. In Bulgaria it has the subsidiary ŽPSV Sofia
EOOD, with a factory in Varna, which principally produces prestressed reinforced
concrete sleepers.
In the second half of the year it extended the production of sleepers with other
prefabricated elements for rail bed drainage, platforms and anti-noise walls.
Algeria
During 2010, OHL continued to develop its construction activity in Algeria through
the execution of the Algiers Ring Road and the modernization and dual-track route
for the railway between Annaba and Ramdane Djamel. Early in the year it finalized
the Oran Convention Center.
Execution of the project for the second ring road between Algeria and Boudouaou is
highly advanced, and the sections of Meftah-Khemis El Khechna and Douera-Birtouta
were opened to traffic in 2010, in acts attended by the Minister of Public Works and
the Governor of Algiers.
The Douera-Birtouta section has included the execution of an open-cut tunnel, in an
aim to reestablish the orographic continuity of the city of Kreicia.
This roadway project, considered to be the most important one of its kind in Algiers,
is expected to finalize in mid-2011.
ŽPSV ranks
among the
major suppliers
of concrete
products in the
Czech Republic
Oran Convention Center,
with the Le Meridien Hotel
in the foreground and the
Exhibition and Conference
halls in the background. To
the right, second beltway
around Algiers.
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