Suárez Gutiérrez, José Luis
Chairman-CEO of COPASA
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Personal data |
| Date of birth |
1958
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| Academic background |
Engineer, educated at E.T.S. de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de Valencia (Valencia Higher Technical School of
Civil Engineering).
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| Career path |
He started work in 1981 at Agromán. In 1985 he and other partners set up Construcciones Paraño S.A., which in 2004 became S.A. de Obras y
Servicios, COPASA, consolidating its presence in the sector with a number of major projects. In 2005 the company was involved in the construction of
the Outer Harbour of A Coruña, which at the time was the largest civil engineering project in Spain. In 2006 the company embarked upon its
international expansion into South America and Eastern Europe. In 2007 the company moved boldly into the water treatment business by acquiring 55%
of Passavant España (today PESA Medioambiente), a subsidiary of the world number one in the sector. In 2012 COPASA became the leading private
company in the largest international civil works contract ever won by a Spanish consortium, the Arabian Mecca-Medina HSL, which involved building
three factories in the desert. In 2013 the company made news by becoming the first company to trade on the MARF. In 2014 it won contracts for Rio de
Janeiro’s Olympic Promenade for the 2016 Olympic Games and for the expansion of the Veracruz Megaport in Mexico. In 2019 he hired his first works
in the US to act on two highways in the state of Texas. That same year began the reconstruction of Route 14 in Uruguay, the great cross-sectional
areteria of the country, and began the integral renewal of the water supply of the Brazilian city of Belem.
COPASA continues to be oriented towards railway projects but, as an example of its strong diversification, in 2016 the company entered into a
consortium with RENFE to manage the transport and treatment of all waste generated in Galicia. Today COPASA operates in 16 countries around the
world, the most recent additions being United States, Mexico y Colombia.
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| Postal address |
Rua do Paseo, 25 - entresuelo
E-32003 Ourense. Spain |
| Web |
www.copasagroup.com |
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