January 27, 2020 - CBE Group celebrates its 33rd anniversary in March 2020, and still counts amid its staff some of its first employees. Jean-Philippe Menuet, onsite construction supervisor, participated in the first tunnel projects CBE won. We decided to learn more about the way he sees his job, and what are his best memories.
December 19, 2019 - With its three tunnels built on the same water recovery site in Sri Lanka, the UMA OYA construction site comes to an end after 11 years of works. CBE Group has been present since 2013 on the biggest multipurpose project ever done in the country for a better natural water management, generating an additional source of power for the inhabitants of the area.
November 25, 2019 - Rémy QUACH, who has been working for CBE Group since 2014, started off as an IVB Project Manager (International Volunteering in Business). A French national of Chinese descent, he recently became Planning Manager at CBE Group in China. His bi-cultural profile is useful to CBE Group in order to keep the connection strong between the headquarters in France and the Chinese subsidiary.
September 17, 2019 - We met in August 2019 with Bryce Scofield, General Manager for the Tunnelling Division and Cody Boykin, Precast Engineer, both working for TRAYLOR BROS INC. Having come to our production facilities in France to check on their moulds for the WESTSIDE 2 project, Bryce Scofield accepted to sit with us
July 23, 2019 - The 2019 edition of the RETC exhibition took place in Chicago in the US from June 17th to 19th. CBE Group exhibited there, the last event of a heavy semester for our sales team. They have travelled a lot since the beginning of the year : Germany, Italy, twice the United States... A return to France rich in meetings and projects.
June 24, 2019 - CBE Group was awarded two contracts in the United States by its client Traylor Precast LLC, with whom the company already worked in the past, especially for the Bay Tunnel project in 2010 and the Westside 1 project in 2015. Today, Silicon Valley Clean Water and Westside 2 are in the launch phase.
May 21, 2019 - CBE Group exhibited at five shows during the first semester of 2019 and the Sales Team will conclude its marathon in June, with the RETC show in Chicago, United States. Just back from Naples where the CBE annual seminar was organised for the international agents, our collaborators leave in a few weeks for the last event of the early season.
May 6, 2019 - The Mostra d’Oltremare conference centre in Naples, Italy, welcomes the WTC show (World Tunnel Congress) from May 6th to 9th. CBE Group exhibits among more than 200 exhibitors from the tunnel field. This event is the opportunity for the French company to gather its agents from all over the world for an annual seminar.
April 18, 2019 - BAUMA 2019 ended on Sunday April 14th and saw a varied audience walk about its alleys : the 600 000 visitors who were expected did come to attend the biggest industry event in the world. CBE Group, along with its two other brands APS and ACIMEX, managed to take advantage of numerous opportunities.
March 28, 2019 - CBE Group will exhibit at the 32nd edition of BAUMA, the industrial worldwide show that takes place in Munich, Germany from April 8 to 14, 2019. This unavoidable event gathers all the industrial major actors of the XXIst century and concentrates the most important variety of expertise and innovation for the construction field.
March 19, 2019 - The French company can be proud of very satisfying production results for 2018 : CBE Group exceeds now 25 000 moulds manufactured by its French and Chinese teams since 1987.
February 7, 2019 - At the beginning of 2018, the company landed a contract for the creation of the Woluwe-Saint Pierre stormwater tank in Brussels, Belgium. DENYS - Wayss & Freytag - BAM Contractors called upon the expertise of CBE Group regarding the manufacturing of moulds for this particular project.
November 27, 2018 - « The construction site of the year », according to French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe. The Grand Paris Express project will serve the most important poles of activity and will bring the suburbs closer to Paris, thanks to its 200 kms of rail.
October 23, 2018 - One year after the opening of the WATERVIEW tunnel in Auckland, New-Zealand, CBE Group makes the review of this huge project : the longest tunnel of the country (2.4kms) and the 10th largest in the world.
July 18, 2018 - CBE Group delivered 32 segment moulds, as well as equipment, for the Eole project, in Ile-de-France. This underground project includes the boring of new tunnels, with one under la Défense.
June 26, 2018 - For the last few months, CBE Group has taken part in the huge London sewer rework project, THAMES TIDEWAY TUNNEL. The French midcap company won contracts on the three projects: WEST, CENTRAL & EAST, each time from different clients. Here’s a quick summary of the project and CBE Group’s role in it.
June 19, 2018 - CBE Group recently won two sizable contracts in Australia. The French midcap company will take part in two substantial projects: Melbourne metro and West Gate Tunnel, located in the same city.
May 4, 2018 - The WTC (World Tunnel Congress) took place on April 21-26 in Dubai, UAE. Gathering more than 200 exhibitors, among which CBE Group, the event attracted more that 1500 visitors in its alleys. At the heart of WTC this year, the role of underground space in building future sustainable cities.
April 3, 2018 - CBE Group has participated in more than 150 underground projects in the country since the creation of CBE China in 2009: a success due to local production and French expertise.
March 20, 2018 - North East Boundary Tunnel in the USA or the Dubai Deep Storm Water project in the United Arab Emirates are two of the new projects signed by CBE Group at the beginning of the year.
February 28, 2018 - CBE Group will be present at the World Tunnel Congress 2018 (WTC) from April 21 to 26, at the Dubai Trade Centre.
January 6, 2018 - CBE Group invites you to discover its new page on the Frequently Asked Questions, answering your questions on our work and products.
January 30, 2018 - CBE Group recently delivered several segment moulds and a carousel to the city of Chengdu, in the Sichuan province, for an innovative technical gallery project.
December 14, 2017 - On Monday December 11th, CBE Group won the 2017 «Top Export» award, attributed by La Nouvelle République, a regional newspaper. The award, already won by CBE Group back in 2010, distinguishes local companies which successfully export worldwide.
September 25, 2017 - In the year of its 30th anniversary, French SME CBE Group has signed its 500th project, which will take place in France. At the beginning of the summer, CBE Group officialised its participation in the creation of Line 15 South of the Parisian metro, a part of the “Grand Paris Express” project. CBE Group will provide its client GIE ALLIANCE with a carousel and several sets of moulds.
September 19, 2017 - CBE Group participated in the annual AFTES event, “Association Française du Tunnel et des Espaces Souterrains” (French association of tunnelling and underground spaces), from the 13th to 15th of November 2017, in Paris. The company also celebrated onsite its 30 years.
April 11, 2017 - Thirty years of experience allowed CBE Group to become one of the major operators in the tunnel industry in 2017, active on every continent, with more than 480 projects achieved. CBE Group is now the worldwide leader in the production of moulds and automated plants for tunnel segments.
April 11, 2017 - In 2015, CBE Group provided 3 carousels to the Acciona-Ghella joint-venture, mandated for the construction of the 22 km long double tunnel, linking Oslo, capital city, to Ski. The 3 carousels, as well as the moulds, were designed in the design office in Saint-Avertin, France. CBE Group took care of the production, installation and the launch of the 3 carousels.
April 11, 2017 - CBE Group has provided the moulds for the 9,2 km long railway tunnel linking the central railway station of Beijing in the district of Dongchen to the West station in the district of Fengtai. The latter was put in service in 2014.
April 11, 2017 - In 2014, CBE Group provided a double carousel to the Thiess-John Holland-Dragados JV for the concrete segments precasting of the North West Rail Link (NWRL) double tunnel in Sydney. In June 2015, the project was renamed “Sydney Metro Northwest”. The tunnel is the first phase of the Sydney metro, which will be the first Australian metro.
April 11, 2017 - In 2014, CBE Group provided 80 moulds to the JV International FAST, designated for the building of 3 new metro lines in Riyad. CBE Group has also designed, produced and installed a double precast carousel for the PACADAR Arabia LLC, which produced the segments used as tunnel coating of the Saudi capital city’s subways.
April 11, 2017 - In 2014, CBE Group provided 6 master rings to Bay State Precast LLC for the Anacostia tunnel in Washington D.C, USA. This tunnel is part of the “Clean Rivers Project”, started in 2013, which will relieve the sewer system of the capital city.
April 11, 2017 - In 2015, CBE Group provided 45 moulds to the Consorcio Expresso Linha 6 for the sixth line of the São Paulo metro. CBE Group designed, produced and installed an automated plant which handled the segment production on site.
