Extracoleads a research project in collaboration with the universities of Vigo(UVigo) and Santiago de Compostela(USC), through which they intend to achieve bioasphalt production using a natural antioxidant as binding agent, called lignin. Under the name of ‘Innobiowaste Project’,this initiative seeks the valuation of agri-food waste in order to obtain bioproducts of high added value, such as [...]

The prestigious international Journal Construction of Engineering and Management includes, in one of its latest issues, an article with the results of the research projects in which Extraco takes part, specifically about the potentiality of use of ground-penetrating radar equipment for the control of civil engineering works in the railway sector. The company’s head of [...]

Extraco is one of the main companies appearing in ‘Haciendo Galicia’, an initiative of the newspaper El Correo Gallego with which it wanted ‘to honor those who, being in the midst of a hostile environment and facing a major crisis, with innovative spirit, perseverance, enthusiasm and assumption of risks and sacrifices, have been able to [...]

Extraco has begun the repair works of the Ponte do Milenio in Ourense, in order to recover the aesthetics of the infrastructure and correct some faults found. This action is promoted by the Galician Agency of Infrastructures, and its maximum authority, the Regional Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Ethel Vázquez, together with the Mayor of [...]

Recently, one of Exaco’s construction sites in Peru received a presidential visit. Ollanta Humala, acting president of the country, together with other representatives from the Peruvian Ministry of Education, could see for himself the progress in the construction of the school I.E. Juan Manuel Iturregui, located in the region of Lambayeque. Extraco expects the education [...]

JUNTA GENERAL ORDINARIA DE ACCIONISTAS DE EXTRACO, CONSTRUCCIÓNS E PROXECTOS, S.A. Por acuerdo del Consejo de Administración, se convoca a los Señores Accionistas a la Junta General Ordinaria, que tendrá lugar en el domicilio social sito en Camiño da Cima, número 24 – primero (Ourense), el día 29 de Junio de 2016, en primera convocatoria, [...]

Aenor, the Spanish Standards Association, has endorsed the update and adjustment of Extraco’s R&D&I Management System to the new UNE 166002:2014 standard, which replaces the previous UNE 166002:2006 standard. In particular, this new recognition certifies that the Company has an R&D&I Management System that complies with the regulations in force for leveraging and recycling materials [...]

Extraco’s activity in Peru has steadily increased since the company arrived in the Andean country in 2012. It has intensified over the past year with the allocation of several projects to improve educational infrastructures, such as the construction of the new Juan Manuel Iturregui school, in the Lambayeque region, and the conditioning, improvement and replacement [...]

Now that the President of the Republic, Juan Carlos Varela, has submitted the orders to proceed in order to start the works, Extraco will build two centers for young offenders in Panama – the Transition Center in Pacora for juvenile offenders and the Basilio Lakas Detention Center in María Chiquita, in the province of Colón. [...]

AENOR, the Spanish Standardisation and Certification Association, has validated the energy management system that Extraco has in its main offices, warehouses and machinery workshops. In particular, it has granted Extraco the Energy Management Certificate guaranteeing that the company fully complies with UNE-ISO 50001:2011 specifications. The auditors verified that Extraco performs a thorough, real-time control of [...]