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The group also operates
three cement plants in the
US and holds street
furniture concessions in
New York, Boston, and
Atlanta through Cemusa
It will also be the first of several base oil
recycling plants that the Citizen Services
Group will build in the US. The plant, which
will have a staff of around 30, will be able
to recover 150 million litres of base oil each
year.
The FCC subsidiary Cemusa, specialised
in the design, manufacture, installation and
maintenance of street furniture, is also ope-
rating in the services industry. At the van-
guard of this sector, in September 2010,
the company installed the world’s first di-
gital newsstands, in New York’s Times
Square, as part of the contract awarded
by the city government in 2006. This is the
largest contract of its kind in the world, and
bidders included the leading companies in
the field of outdoor advertising and com-
munication, such as Viacom, Clear Chan-
nel, Van Wagner/Verizon, and JC Decaux/
NBC-Universal. Cemusa expects revenues
amounting to 1.6 billion euro over the 20-
year concession.
Cemusa also has street furniture contracts
in Boston and Atlanta, among other major
US cities, and operates in 12 countries in
Europe and Latin America. Its most recent
innovations include the addition of interacti-
vity to the Times Square newsstands, with
touchscreen capabilities allowing for the
exchange of information as well as photo-
graphy.
In the area of infrastructure, Cementos
Portland has three cement plants through
its US subsidiary, Giant, in Bath (Pennsyl-
vania), Harleyville (South Carolina) and Tha-
meston (Maine).