COLAS GROUP
WORLDWIDE
Global network with local delivery
COLAS has a mission to imagine, build, and maintain sustainable transport infrastructure from its local roots around the world. Backed by a global network of 1,000 local construction business units and 3,000 material production and recycling units in more than 50 countries on five continents, the Group’s 65,000 employees act locally to connect communities and foster exchanges for today and tomorrow.
Together, we strive to be a leader in designing and delivering innovative and sustainable solutions in each market we serve.
COLAS History
The COLAS name was derived from the terms ‘COLd’ and ‘ASphalt’.
In 1925 two English companies Asphalt Cold Mix Ltd merged with a company called COLAS Mix Manufacturing Ltd to form COLAS Product Ltd to supply bitumen emulsions for use on roads in Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State.
The COLAS Road Company was founded in France in 1929 by Shell and Société Générale d’Entreprises (SGE). The company originally specialised in the production of bitumen emulsion in addition to road works. Over the years, the company’s name changed to COLAS SA International Group which saw expansion from roads to all forms of transportation infrastructure across the world.
With a significant investment in research and development capability, COLAS specialises in developing innovative materials and processes to create safe and sustainable transport systems.
AROUND
THE WORLD
Transport infrastructure around the world
COLAS works in the construction and maintenance of transport infrastructure through three main business segments: roads, construction materials, and railways. In 2023, the Group recorded the following figures.
COLAS
AUSTRALIA
GROUP
COLAS Australia Group Pty Ltd
The COLAS Australia Group was formed in 2008 with the acquisition of SAMI Bitumen Technologies. The COLAS Australia Group has continued to expand its operations throughout Australia with the acquisition of a number of local companies and is now supported by 700 employees over 15 work sites across Australia and New Zealand.
THE COLAS
AUSTRALIA
SERVICE PROMISE
Vision
To provide world class innovative and sustainable solutions for transport infrastructure for future generations.
Mission
To deliver innovative and sustainable infrastructure through our five key cornerstones:
- Safety First – making the safety of our team and the communities that we work in are our top priority
- Recycle – reduce, reuse and recycle non-renewable material resources in our products and processes
- Energy – reduce the consumption of non-renewable energy sources across our business
- Innovation – create safer and more sustainable products and processes
- Community – develop Corporate Social Responsibility & Biodiversity initiatives in the communities where we work
Values: CARING SHARING DARING
CARING is a fundamental value of our corporate culture. Whether it is self-care, care for employees, care for our customers and partners or care for the environment and community, we are driven by the same duty of care. This is why acting ethically, preserving the safety of those working with us will always remain our priority. CARING means setting an example, listening to others, creating the conditions to allow each employee to express themselves freely and to grow. CARING is translating our commitments into strong actions of corporate social responsibility (CSR). CARING means doing everything we can to best meet the needs of our customers.
SHARING talents and resources in all their diversity builds teamwork and provides a source of new ideas. SHARING is creating optimal conditions for working as a team by promoting trust, responsibility and solidarity. SHARING means embracing the Group’s projects and bringing employees on board so that everyone feels involved. SHARING is encouraging transmission of know-how between generations and putting expertise at the forefront of the group for its customers, stakeholders and industry partners.
DARING is at the core of innovation, a pioneering mindset founded our corporate culture. DARING to move forward, to explore new horizons, to reinvent ourselves. DARING to undertake and launch ideas and initiatives that create value. DARING is encouraging initiative. DARING is giving everyone an opportunity.
DARING is pushing back the boundaries of what is possible.
INNOVATION
AT THE CORE
Translating our Research and Development into action
Research and development sits at the core of COLAS. It enables customers to select from products and services with guaranteed durability and performance in the knowledge that they have been rigorously tested, researched, modified and enhanced.
The international COLAS Group invests around €70 Million Euros per year in research and development providing an extensive international network supported by over 2,000 research experts, engineers and technicians. Our local laboratories and technical experts work closely with the Campus for Science and Technology near Paris – the world’s largest private road research laboratory – to develop new improved products.