Roads

Roads represent about 80% of the Group’s business

The Roads business has two branches :

• Road Construction 
• Production

Road construction

Colas builds and maintains roads, highways, runways and airport parking areas, ports, industrial and logistics hubs, urban roads and developments, public transport tracks and reserved lanes for buses, trams and metros), cycle lanes, motor racing circuits, sport and recreational facilities, etc.

 Run video "Jersey Airport"

Production

Upstream of constriction and maintenance work, Colas owns major industrial facilities for the production and recycling of construction materials primarily used in road building (aggregate, emulsions, binders and asphalt mixes, ready-mixed concrete).

Colas bases these industrial businesses on a dense international network comprising:

•  685 quarries and gravel pits
• 159 emulsion and binder plants
• 607 asphalt mixing plants
  

In 2009, Colas produced:

• 106 million metric tons of aggregate (approximately 55 million metric tons for mainland France)
• 1.6 million metric tons of emulsions and binders (world number 1 emulsion producer)
• 48.4 million metric tons of asphalt mix

The Group’s estimated worldwide aggregate reserves are estimated at 2.6 billion metric tons. 

Colas also has a business for the storage, transformation and distribution of bitumen.