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Keep updated on ULMA Construction’s latest developments as well as the most relevant projects we have worked on.

ULMA Updates its Image with a New General Catalogue and New Products on Display in the Showroom

ULMA presents its new general catalogue, Construction Book, with more than 250 pages featuring extensive information covering the entire product portfolio, including formwork, scaffolding, and bracing systems, along with descriptions of more than 70 projects executed around the world. The publication of this document coincides with a comprehensive update of the systems exhibited in the Showroom. All of our latest product developments are already on display so that the customer can get to know the latest market releases first hand.

Jun 08, 2016

Transforming the metropolis of São Paulo

The impending Olympic Games in Brazil are transforming the metropolis of Sao Paulo, with marked effects on the city's road network. In the southern part of the city, the “Chucri Zaidan” urban plan includes various real estate developments, as well as infrastructural projects providing roadway, environmental, and social improvements. As part of this plan, two new bridges – Laguna and Itapaiuna – were built in the district of Marginal Pinheiros, and ULMA took part in both projects. With an investment of R$305 million, the bridges will greatly ease traffic both to and from this historically congested area.

May 09, 2016

Safety, Ergonomics and Innovation: The perfect equation that translates into high-performance solutions on site

ULMA accompanies each client from the start of every project until its final construction, studying the options for each site, designing the technical solution for formwork and scaffolding and providing the most suitable construction material, together with the safety systems that help to prevent possible incidents during the construction on site.

Apr 22, 2016

The Key to Innovation: Close Customer Relations

Every year we develop new and improved products, the quality of which clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of close collaboration with our customers. This is the way to remain on the cutting edge of research, creating ever-more advanced and efficient scaffolding and formwork systems, tailored to both customer and market requirements.

Mar 31, 2016

ULMA systems at Ammonia and Urea Plant in Bolivia

The commencement of operations for this project will meet the entirety of domestic demand, wholly supplanting imported fertilizers. The plant is anticipated to produce 756,000 tonnes annually. Twenty per cent of production will be for internal markets, and 80% for export. The products made from these raw materials will improve crops, increase soil productivity, and recuperate depleted land.

Mar 01, 2016

New SBU Safety Platform designed to work with wall formwork

ULMA Construction designed the new SBU Safety Platform to provide an optimally efficient, versatile and safe building solution, allowing our customers to work with wall formwork at any height in complete and guaranteed safety.

Jan 27, 2016

Estaiada Bridge, Line 4 of Metro,RJ, Brazil

As part of the infrastructural improvements planned for the 2016 Olympic Games, Line 4 of the Rio de Janeiro Metro will extend 16 km to connect the city from west to south. In addition to relieving traffic congestion, the metro will be capable of transporting 300,000 passengers daily and will reduce their transit time from 2 hours to just 15 minutes. Never before has a self-climbing system been used to build inclined pylons for a cable-stayed bridge in Latin America.

Dec 04, 2015

BIRAMAX: Innovation in Circular Formwork

BIRAMAX represents the latest innovation in circular formwork, designed with all the hallmarks of a new ULMA product: ease of use, flexibility, and complete system modularity.

Nov 20, 2015

108 m Pylon Constructed with Self-Climbing System

It is part of a bridge that will be the longest structure of its kind in the region of Podkarpacie.

Oct 30, 2015

Fast progress with CVS formwork carriages

The El Aserradero viaduct, in Colombia, is one of the most complicated structures on the 13.1 kilometre stretch of the “Segunda Calzada Primavera - Camilo C”.

Oct 19, 2015

Big solutions, big projects

With an annual production capacity of 1.6 million tons of cement, the new plant based in Piura will be the most modern in Latin America.

Jul 27, 2015

MK System: cost-effective, flexible and modular

The Tintenbar-Ewingsdale stretch of the Pacific highway is 17 km long. The project’s main objectives are to improve road safety, achieve uninterrupted traffic flow and provide access to the highway from nearby towns.

Jun 29, 2015

Full performance self-climbing systems

One of the highest skyscrapers in Poland, the Q22 tower is rising in the centre of the Polish capital. At 155 m high, this office building will have 47 floors, 5 of which will be underground.

Jun 03, 2015

CVS, cutting-edge bridge technology

The list of MK system applications is ever growing

May 20, 2015

Crossing Bay of Cadiz

In Bay of Cadiz Bridge in Spain with high load-bearing shoring, large scale carriers and challenging technical requirements, ULMA shows its response capacity with regard to logistics, available material stock and quick, flexible and highly skilled technical assistance.

Apr 28, 2015

Energy projects in Peru

ULMA has many years of experience, a wide scope of expertise in this area and has carried out a considerable number of projects in Peru.

Dec 11, 2014

MK mine tunnel carriages

Flexible and cost-effective solution with a standard product. MK System applications are multiplied.

Nov 20, 2014

Gantry false work on heavy-duty MK shoring towers for the load-carrying structure

The two-lane, seventeen span and almost 950 meters long ES 5.5 overpass was built within the S-8 expressway in Poland, between the Walichnowy and the Wrocław junctions. Its load carrying structure consists of a prestressed box, divided into four segments with expansion joints.

Sep 23, 2014

ULMA Showroom - 1,700 sq metres of product and experience

The Showroom is ULMA's shop window for products, capabilities and a place for training and learning.

Jul 18, 2014

ULMA & ATTIEH alliance: interview with Nouri A. Daher

Nouri A. Daher, General Director of ULMA ATTIEH is now working for 6 years side by side with ULMA. The fruits of this partnership are large projects such as the Briman Project, Damman Project, etc.

Jul 17, 2014

ULMA launches the most optimised light formwork solution into the market

The light LGW formwork is the result of turning research and innovation into new products, new solutions and new services for the customer.

Jun 09, 2014

Great Performance in Great Projects

ULMA participates in what is considered to be the largest infrastructure plan in recent times in Recife, Brazil. The Via Mangue motorway is a collaborative project between the Municipal Prefecture of the City of Recife and the Federal Government within the works on mobility for the Football World Cup 2014. The plan includes the construction of roads, sanitation, residential areas, etc. with an investment of R$ 433.2 million (about € 137 million).

May 26, 2014

HWS and ATR - Partners at great heights

High-rise projects require an industry leader to come up with excellent product solutions and shortest possible execution deadlines. ULMA has been working for years in this sector offering staff expertise in the development, application and advice to customers at an international level. This know-how rounded off with a comprehensive, customised and continuous service from the beginning up to the end of each project ensures the success of this type of projects. Customers relying on ULMA made it possible to implement projects, such as the Hudson Yards in NYC and Bay Adelaide East Tower in Toronto.

May 26, 2014

Building Modernity in India

ULMA's presence in the Asian market is a reality for years. The opening of the subsidiary in India in 2010 was a further step towards offering a comprehensive service and a close relationship with the customer in that region. ULMA positions itself in the Asian market with high-rise building projects. The Prestige Trade Tower in Bangalore and the World One King Tower in Mumbai are examples of projects currently undertaken by ULMA in this country.

Feb 13, 2014