EXTRACO’s Project “ALFILLER: Valorization of asphalt plant recovery filler for the development of cement-based eco-products”, submitted in the category SMEs/entrepreneurs, has been awarded a prize by Renault Group Fundación España and the Club de Excelencia en Sostenibilidad at the “9th Awards to the best practice in Sustainable and Accessible Mobility”. It is a R&D&I project [...]

Year 1 ESO students of Secondary School IES de Soutomaior (Pontevedra) visited Arcade’s wastewater treatment plant, whose management and maintenance is in hands of a consortium made up by EXTRACO and Asteisa. During the educational visit on 16 December, 87 Biology and Geology students participated in this visit and they studied in situ the final [...]

The activities planned within the 2021 7th Civil Engineering Meetings, held on 19 December at the Church of Santiago, in A Coruña, concluded with a Christmas concert. The CARABÉ choir performed an a capella program —fully made up by Christmas carols and music— with pieces that ranged from the Renaissance to the current date. Mr. [...]

At the North of Lima (Perú), the new sanitary landfill of the province of Huaura is now fully operative, available to a population of over 190,000 people. Thanks to its implementation, the habitants of Hualmay, Huaura, Santa María, Vegueta, Caleta de Carquín and Huacho districts no longer need to dispose their waste without being separated [...]

EXTRACO won the second prize in the “I Contest of Innovative Materials of Galicia”, organized by the Galician Innovation Agency-GAIN, through the Materioteca de Galicia. The concretes and mortars made with Galician bivalve shells, developed by EXTRACO with the companies Galaicontrol and Serumano, together with the Construction Group (gCONS) of the University of A Coruña [...]

Extraco has been included, for the first time, among the Galician “smart companies” in the Ardán Galicia 2020 Report, which annually offers an analysis of the economy in the community from a business perspective. This study, conducted by the Free Trade Zone of Vigo in collaboration with the Ardán Chair of the University of Vigo [...]

The new building for the regional office of the “Contraloría General de la República” (the Auditors’ Court of Panama) has been opened in September in the district of Las Tablas, province of Bocas de los Santos, in Panama. This two-story building with a glazed façade divided in three parts has elevators and adapted accesses for [...]

Extraco is the first company in the building and construction services sector that collaborates with the “Materials Library of Galicia”. It is a singular space for the dissemination of innovative materials that combines an exhibition and archive of sorted samples of new types of materials, developed by technological centers, research organizations and companies of the [...]

Last May 7, an academic visit took place at the hot asphalt mixing plant that Extraco owns in the Industrial Park of Chorente, in Allariz (Ourense). Civil Engineering Students of the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC), with a concentration in Transportation, traveled from the Escuela Politécnica Superior in Lugo to Extraco’s facilities to understand [...]

The works of the Bus Station of Pontevedra experienced important progress during the last month of May as the construction of the overpass to access the station from Avenida de Josefina Arruti began. The following drone images show the construction process of this overpass, which crosses over a stretch of the Gafo River and will [...]