The Group

Key figures

361 M€
CHIFFRE D‘AFFAIRES 2020
2000
EMPLOYEES
Enthusiastic men and women who are proud to work in the common interest
1400
VEHICLES AND MACHINERY
Specific or more common equipment, which is subject to particular attention from the point of view of ergonomics and energy consumption, in order to preserve the safety of our employees and the future of the planet
10
FACTORIES IN EUROPE
Usines en Europe

Advanced equipment to serve innovation and local roots, which are factors in economic development

about 20,000
CONSTRUCTION SITES PER YEAR
From a pedestrian crossing near a school to the equipment for a motorway, there are no unimportant construction sites where safe and reliable mobility for everyone is concerned

Organisation

Industrial expertise and construction-work know-how at the service of safe and reliable mobility

We secure, signal and regulate the flows, acting as a comprehensive operator in safe and reliable mobility, to provide solutions to your problems, in a local and trusted relationship.

Aximum is a subsidiary of the Colas Group, a world leader in construction and maintenance of transport infrastructure. www.colas.com

Construction work & services

Our branches and their establishments prepare complete and appropriate solutions to private roads or motorways, fast lanes or urban highways, in rural zones as well as in the heart of metropolises. We take care to take into consideration all forms of mobility on road, rail, airport or river infrastructure.

Safe and reliable mobility in urban and rural zones

  • Securing and building traffic lanes and dedicated spaces – retention systems, equipment, road and urban marking, for example
  • Signalling to guide and inform users – vertical directional, tourist and police signage, road signage and dynamic information
  • Regulate travel and promote fluid traffic – three-colour traffic lights, variable message signs, parking management, transportation engineering

Safe and reliable mobility, permanently or temporarily

Because the safety of persons (agents, teams, local residents and customers) must be preserved under all circumstances, we have developed a set of solutions dedicated to the protection of work zones and to operation while there is a work site ongoing.

Safe and reliable mobility while improving management and maintenance

So that mobility is always safer and more reliable within the regions, we constantly seek to perfect our tools and solutions for the management and maintenance of infrastructure, thanks to permanent dialogue with your services, the know-how of our teams and our production capacity.

16 versatile establishments to solve your problems, produce and maintain your facilities
 

NTM (Networks and Traffic Management): establishments and 1 Sensitive Sites Protection sector

Civil engineering: 2 establishments
 

Complex projects and concessions

France and International
 

Transportation engineering

Road engineering

Central Traffic Regulation Station
 

Work & services contacts

Industrial Subsidiaries

AXIMUM is the fruit of the successful integration of first-rate industrial companies in the fields of safety and traffic management. Our expertise and know-how enable us to design and manufacture products that are innovative, reliable and environmentally friendly.

Our Research and Development teams have the necessary resources within our design offices and laboratories, as well as a specialised unit on the Colas Scientific Campus. The vocation of our industrial subsidiaries is to promote the emergence of high-performance and innovative products and they devote 3% of their turnover to R&D.

The 10 production sites are certified ISO 9001 and ISO 14000.

Subsidiaries contacts

Aximum Safety Products is specialised in the design and manufacture of road safety equipment.

Our design office, which has advanced digital simulation and computation software, contributes to developing products for securing all types of roads. In particular, we work with the use of recycled materials.

Production site: Nogent-sur-Oise (60).

Aximum Marking Products and Véluvine are specialised in the design and manufacture of products and techniques in the field of horizontal signage.

Our research laboratories and material design office contribute to developing products that are the most environmentally friendly, particularly water-based paints.

Production site: Rouen (76), Noyons (60) and Brétigny (91), Véluvine is established in Breda (NL).

Aximum Electronic Products is specialised in the design and manufacture of products intended for security and the management of traffic.

Our design offices are specialised in mechanics, electronics and industrial IT, and methods. They contribute to our ability to innovate for products that save energy and raw materials. We have therefore generalised the use of LEDs and eliminated motors in our autonomous products.

Production site: Villenave d’Ornon (33) and Tourcoing (59).

SES is specialised in the design and manufacture of road signage and traffic management products.

Our design offices are specialised in mechanics, electronics and electrical engineering, optics and IT. They contribute to developing products that are reliable, competitive and environmentally friendly. We have therefore generalised the use of LEDs and optimised the way in which solar energy is used.

Production site: Tours (37) and Chambourg (41).

Export

The issues of safe and reliable mobility are shared by everyone in all parts of the world.

AXIMUM is organised to be able to offer you solutions that solve your problems, wherever they are in the world.

We are able to study correspondence with national standards, to validate the expected level of performance.

Export contacts

Historic

AXIMUM, more than half a century of experience bringing together the know-how of 20 companies.

1958 The SOciété de MAtériel ROutier (SO.MA.RO.) was founded, which built the metal crash barriers to secure the roads in France and became a subsidiary of Colas Group in 1959
1965 Participation in the great adventure of the Mont-Blanc Tunnel and construction of concrete barriers
1971 Installation of safety equipment on the Paris ring road, which is in the process of completion
1984 Creation of the first Variable Message Panel (VMP)
1988 The company broadened its range and took over INDASCO, to make the roads even safer through road marking
1993 First illuminated lane-neutralisation arrow
2003 Plastipoche, the first eco-designed cold coating package. Environmentally friendly and economical, winner of the innovation prize at the exhibition of mayors and local authorities
2005 Ostrea, the first range of eco-designed marking products based on crushed oyster shells, vegetable oils and natural resins
2005 The first semi-automatic system for fitting metal crash barriers
2006 Consolidation of Prosign, Alliance PM, Véluvine and Sodirel. Aximum becomes a manufacturer of marking machines, increases the density of its establishments in France and develops its know-how in traffic guidance equipment
2007 Acquisition of Profil R and Nord Galva. Aximum becomes a manufacturer of metal security systems
2008 GSE+ range, the first metal crash barrier without a spacer
2009 SO.MA.RO becomes AXIMUM, a coherent group which provides security, signalling and regulation for the roads. AXIMUM also founds Aximum Safety Products, Aximum Marking Products and Aximum Electronic Products
2010 Acquisition of the Sagem Group's division regulating traffic and manufacturing traffic lights and traffic controllers
2010 Elise, the first self-driven electric marking machine
2014 Development of SMS+, the most versatile modular lane separator on the market
2015 The Optima Variable Message Panel, a unique concept which enables the deployment of new technologies even where access to power is difficult
2015 Aximum moves to its new head office in Magny-les-Hameaux and improves its ability to innovate by incorporating the Colas Scientific and Technical Campus Site