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1960 1970 Sewer cleaning equipment. Barcelona.

We innovate in managing

urban services and improving

infrastructure

For the first time we embarked on solid urban waste collection using bins and containers,
requiring the adaptation of our waste collection trucks. We also began to use pre-stressed
concrete to build urban structures, a technique which improves on the material’s natural
Waste water treatment plant La China.
weakness. Madrid.

1960

We began to set up our first We began construction on Barcelona-La Junquera We undertook the We built the El Corte Inglés
in-company workshops for Spain’s first toll motorway, toll motorway. construction of two department stores in
collection and cleaning vehicle covering the route between underground car parks on Barcelona (Plaza de Cataluña
maintenance. Barcelona and La Junquera. Paseo de Gracia in Barcelona, and Diagonal), Bilbao, Gijón,
FCC was awarded the Mollet- the first in the city, with Girona, Las Palmas, Madrid
In Zaragoza we launched Granollers section. capacity for 1,270 vehicles. (Preciados and Princesa),
the elimination of organic Malaga, Seville (Plaza del
waste by means of aerobic Duque) and Zaragoza.
fermentation.
Operations began at the
Portland Valderrivas plant in
El Alto, Madrid, with capacity
to produce 783,000 tonnes of
cement per year.

Solid urban waste collection
services Madrid.

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