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SALINI, CEO WEBUILD: SIGNIFICANT COMMERCIAL PROSPECTS IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
50 YEARS AT THE SIDE OF THE COUNTRY CONTRIBUTING TO INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Milan, March 6, 2025 - "Relations between Italy and the United Arab Emirates stand as an example of international cooperation when it comes to innovation and sustainability", said Webuild CEO Pietro Salini during his participation in the "Business with Lubna" TV programme, on Sky News Arabia. He went on to say that for the Webuild Group it is a privilege to contribute to strengthening this bond, with tangible ongoing results that for 50 years have seen the Group at the side of many local clients, supporting the infrastructural development and collective wellbeing of the Country.
"The United Arab Emirates are a largely developing reality that keeps investing intensively in the infrastructure sector, driven by an economic diversification strategy, and the need of supporting demographic and tourism growth. The Webuild Group, as of today, has significant commercial prospects in the area, especially when it comes to energy, metro and railway, water treatment and desalination plant projects, but also with regard to iconic buildings, hospitals and airports".
"The Webuild Group, in the United Arab Emirates, has built approximately 30 projects in various different sectors, also thanks to its long-standing premium engineering, which has seen the Group for 120 years already as a reference player in the infrastructure sector, on a global level" Salini recalled. "For example, we built the Abu Dhabi Great Mosque, among the world's largest, and capable of welcoming up to 40,000 believers; but also, the Jebel Ali M desalination plant, among the world's most iconic in its industrial sector, capable of providing water to the city of Dubai, with over 636,000 cubic metres of water delivered daily", concluded Salini.
Webuild has a consolidated presence in the water sector in the entire Middle Eastern area, where it works with its subsidiary Fisia Italimpianti, a global leader in water treatment and desalination, which through its plants supplies water to over 20 million people globally.
The entire Middle Eastern area represents a scenario of great strategic interest for Webuild. It is in fact an area where the Group is building some of the world's most challenging infrastructural projects, just like the futuristic NEOM project in Saudi Arabia. Here, it has already built iconic works like the Kingdom Centre in Riyadh, which has been awarded the Emporis Skyscraper Award 2022 as the world's best designed skyscraper; and the Orange Line (Line 3) of Riyadh's Metro, the longest of the new innovative metro network of the Saudi capital. In Qatar, it has built the Al-Bayt Stadium, in Al Khor, shaped as a typical Arab tent, which hosted the FIFA World Cup 2022 matches.
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Webuild is a global leader in the design and construction of large, complex infrastructure projects in sustainable mobility, hydropower, water treatment, and green buildings. Webuild is a global leader in the design and construction of large, complex infrastructure projects in sustainable mobility, hydropower, water treatment, and green buildings. A recognized leader in the water sector, it is present in 50 countries with over 92,000 people, ranking among the leading international players in Australia, Europe and the United States. In nearly 120 years of applied engineering on more than 3,200 projects, the Group has built 14,140 kilometres of rail and metro lines, 82,533 kilometres of roads and highways, 1,020 kilometres of bridges and viaducts, 3,408 kilometres of tunnels, and 313 dams and hydropower plants. Projects include the expansion of the Panama Canal, the Long Beach International Gateway bridge in California, the Third Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey, the Sydney Metro Northwest skytrain viaduct and bridge, the Kingdom Centre skyscraper in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and metro lines in Copenhagen, Paris, Rome, Milan, Doha and Riyadh. Others under construction include the new Genoa Breakwater, the Brenner Base Tunnel, Line C of Rome's metro network, the high-capacity railways between Genoa and Milan, and Naples and Bari, the Palermo-Catania-Messina high-capacity railway, the Snowy 2.0 hydropower scheme in Australia, and the Trojena dam network for NEOM in Saudi Arabia. As of June 30, 2024, Webuild Group achieved a total backlog of €65 billion, with more than 90% of
its construction backlog related to projects linked to the advancement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As of December 31, 2023, revenues totalled €10 billion. Webuild, subject to the direction and coordination of Salini Costruttori S.p.A., is headquartered in Italy and listed on the Milan stock exchange, Borsa Italiana (WBD; WBD.MI; WBD:IM). Since 2021, it is member of the MIB ESG, the index of publicly listed Italian companies with the best ESG practices.
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