Innovation, a key factor in ACCIONA’s international Expansion

Innovation is the capacity to apply ideas and creativity to any activity or project, and in any location or process, to generate value in a company. This is a trait ACCIONA is synonymous with and applies acrossthe- board at international level.

The following are just some of the many projects we are carrying out:

• Adelaide desalination plant, Australia: development of innovative processes involving reverse osmosis desalination techniques, consisting of ultrafiltration pretreatment, boron elimination and energy recovery.
• Açu port, Brazil: floating concrete caissons used for the first time in Latin America for port and shallow-draft dock construction on lowconsistency terrain, via the sliding caisson-floating dock system.
• Oaxaca wind farm complex, Mexico: novel foundations developed for installing wind turbine generators with 80m towers in areas of high seismicity and on clayey ground.
• Beauharnois bridge (NA-30), Canada: with the aim of improving the project's processes, the incremental launch of steel boxes in mixed bridges with special elevations has been optimized.
• Copiapó desalination plant, Chile: desalination processes differ from location to location, since water, as a living entity, has different characteristics everywhere. At the Copiapó desal plant, sudden accumulations of seaweed in the inlet area occur; a compact, simultaneous flotation and filtration system has been developed to counteract them.

ACCIONA is currently working to extend innovation throughout its businesses and the Organization as a whole, as it expands internationally to satisfy internal and external clients.

Learn more, do more and be more together

In any economic activity, and in a global world, innovation is fundamental to the Internationalization process we are experiencing. New ideas and challenges arrive all the time, and we have a growing number of projects abroad, all bringing with them new needs for innovation and technology transfer.