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- Industry
- Innovation
Lower-carbon fertilisers to feed the planet sustainably

Swedish firm Cinis Fertilizer has opened a new environmentally responsible mineral fertiliser production facility based on a circular economy approach. It entrusted Eitech with all electrical installations for the site. Agriculture is responsible for around 25% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Fertiliser production, which depends strongly on fossil fuels, is one source of the sector’s […]
- ICT
- Innovation
A work-study student on course for success

Katrin Orth has made a success of both work and study. During just over two years at Axians in Portugal and then Germany, where she is working on innovation and technology management, Katrin has relished her role as a student in the corporate world. As a child at school, Katrin Orth dreamed of becoming a […]
- Buildings
- Transformation
Innovative new climate control technology at the French Polynesia Hospital Centre

Since 2022, the climate control system at the hospital in Pira’e, Tahiti, has been operating using water from the deep ocean. This offers stable comfort for the building’s users and a drastic reduction in energy spending – a saving of 40%. A saving of almost 9 GWh a year, equivalent to 5,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions: […]
- Industry
- Transformation
Innovating for more growth and less CO2

AI-based data analysis can optimise resource management and energy consumption in industrial processes, reconciling production and environmental imperatives. We look at examples in the agricultural and maritime sectors with the VINCI Energies brands Actemium and Axians. At the end of last year, the Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies H2 factory, the world’s first vertical cement plant, […]
- Buildings
- Performance
“Accelerating by reinventing our business models”

To make reduced greenhouse gas emissions a shared lever for cost savings and productivity: this is the vision VINCI Energies is pursuing in its facility management business, moving to make decarbonisation targets and tools key components in all its contracts. Pierre-Yves Dehaye, Facility Management Managing Director – South-Centre-East Region, at VINCI Energies in France, provides […]
- ICT
- Acceleration
Using data to promote biosphere reserves in Portugal

With support from UNESCO, Axians Portugal has designed a new digital platform to highlight the value of Portugal’s 12 biosphere reserves. Biosphere reserves are extremely important sites due to their high ecological, cultural, economic and social value. They are officially recognised through the Man and Biosphere Programme, a collaboration between UNESCO and national governments. Worldwide, […]
- Industry
- Transformation
Industry 5.0: use taking precedence over technology

Three years ago, the Industry 5.0 concept emerged from the debate around business transformation. It is more an evolution of Industry 4.0 than a revolution, and its watchwords are meaning, sustainability and efficiency. Industry 4.0 has been a fixture for 20 years now, to the extent that it has become a catch-all concept. Many people […]
- ICT
- Transformation
Supporting IT transformation

Capucine Larue, 28, has just set up a new business line within the information systems department at VINCI Energies. It aims to improve the adoption of VINCI Energies’ Codex ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system through innovative communication and user support campaigns. A team leader in VINCI Energies’ IS department, Capucine Larue firmly believes that solidarity, […]
- Industry
- Innovation
Exoskeletons: a solution to musculoskeletal problems

Exoskeletons can be an effective tool against musculoskeletal problems in a number of business sectors. Take VINCI Facilities, whose technicians are now equipped with movement assistance devices where needed, with guaranteed benefits for workplace comfort. Early in 2021, the Hilti group, a construction technologies specialist, announced its first commercially available exoskeleton: the EXO-O1. A new […]