Company type | Cooperative |
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Industry | Construction |
Founders | Pedro Ugarte Esteban Lizarralde Julián Lizarralde Isidro Mendiola Ignacio Maiztegi Julián Ayastu |
Headquarters | , Spain |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
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Products | Construction, formwork, scaffolding |
Number of employees | 2,025 (2021) |
Subsidiaries | 25 |
Website | www |
ULMA Construction is a Spanish company that produces and distributes industrialized formwork and scaffolding systems for building, civil works, and rehabilitation. Ulma is operating in 80 countries on five continents through the rental and sale of its services and products, technical project development, and on-site consultancy. [1]
ULMA Construction was founded in 1961 in Oñati (Guipúzcoa), as Sociedad Cooperativa Industrial Talleres ULMA, engaged in the manufacture of packaging. In 1963 it started working in the building sector and introduced the first pre-fabricated scaffolding.
Its global expansion began in Portugal (where the first subsidiary was created in 1980), France, Argentina and Chile. The cooperative split up into new businesses between 1984 and 1985: packaging and building. A year later, ENARA Cooperative joined them and they formed the Oñalán Group, renamed ULMA Group in 1992. The group has a presence in 80 countries, 4,500 employees, and a turnover of 700 million euros. By the end of 2021, ULMA Construction had 2,025 employees. [2]
ULMA Construction has carried out construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance of all kinds of buildings, such as bridges and viaducts to tunnels, hydraulic works and water treatment plants, as well as towers, high-rise buildings, schools and universities, stadiums, sacred and corporate buildings. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
It has safety systems certified by renowned companies such as GSV, AENOR, and AIDICO. These guarantee the collective protection of workers on-site, with working platforms for the formwork of walls and pillars, access ladders to the different work areas, scaffolding and walkways for work at height, and perimeter protection systems (inside holes or slabs edges). [12]
In 2010, ULMA Construction contributed to the creation of the ULMA Foundation, donating 10% of its profits to social, sports, or socio-cultural projects of public interest in the Basque Country. [25]
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