New appointments to the OHL Board of Directors
The new appointments by co-optation took effect at the Board of Directors meeting held 23 March, 2010. They were that of Alberto Terol Esteban as independent director and Alvaro Villar-Mir de Fuentes as proprietary director
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero officially opens the Alba Synchrotron, Spain’s largest science facility, constructed by OHL.
On 22 March, the President of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, officially opened the Alba Synchrotron Light Facility, located in Cerdanyola del Valles (Barcelona). It is the largest science facility ever built in Spain, constructed by OHL and managed
OHL receives the European Environmental award (spanish section)
OHL has been distinguished with the European Environmental award (Spanish section) 2009-2010 for the Berria Submarine Emissary in Cantabria. The award was received by Juan-Miguel Villar Mir, President of the OHL Group, during a solemn ceremony in Madrid
The OHL Board of Directors appoints Enrique Weickert as new General Economic and Financial Director
The OHL Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Enrique Weickert as General Economic and Financial Director. Weickert will be replacing Jose Antonio Fernandez Elejada who, following many years at the head of OHL's economic and financial affairs
SATO builds the largest floating dock of Spanish design and technology
On 5 December, 2009, the SATO Levante floating dock reached port for its final assembly. At 60m long and 36m wide, it will be the biggest to be built exclusively from Spanish design and technology and the second biggest of
The OHL Group is to increases by 9,9% its net income in the year 2009
The OHL Group, in spite of the difficult economic climate, has closed 2009 with outstanding results, in terms of both sales and profit. The net income of € 165.6 million, has grown by 9.9% in relation to 2008. This increase would
Juan Villar-Mir de Fuentes takes part in a new session of the New Economy Forum
Juan Villar-Mir de Fuentes, vice president of OHL, took part in the conference-lunch organised by the New Economy Forum on February 17th. It was within OHL's traditional collaboration with that forum, to introduce Francesc Antich, President of the Balearic Islands
OHL is to install the world’s largest hand-painted, ceramic mural in the Oran Convention Centre
In the Oran Convention Centre (Algeria), being constructed by the OHL Group, OHL is to install the world's largest hand-painted, ceramic mural, with a surface area of 2,009m2. At 58.4m wide and 34.4m high, it will be composed of 51,392
Juan-Miguel Villar Mir, at Club Siglo XXI, “The Way Out of the Crisis” series
The Chairman of the Villar Mir Group stated that there are two basic reasons why we should all be fully confident of finding the way out of the current crisis: globalisation and the international leadership of some of Spain's major
The Group returns to Portugal at the hands of OHL Environmental Inima
Portugal, where Obrascon carried out their first foregin project in 1912, returns to OHL's international map. It's at the hands of OHL Environmental Inima that the Group returns there. They will be working in Portugal on the construction and operation