Rome, April 15, 2024 – Webuild was acknowledged its huge contribution to promoting the "Made in Italy" concept, globally, thanks to the excellent results that it has had in constructing complex infrastructures. These were the reasons that were given when the Leonardo Prize was handed to Webuild CEO Pietro Salini, today, therefore acknowledging the Group's leadership in the infrastructure sector that allowed the Group to become one of the main international players, while also strengthening the competitiveness of the Italian industrial sector. The Prize was awarded during the Giornata del Made in Italy (Made in Italy Day), at Palazzo Giustiniani in Rome. Attending, the Italian President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa, the Italian Business and Made in Italy Minister Adolfo Urso, also the initiative's promotor, and the President of the Committee Leonardo Sergio Dompé. 

“I am proud of having received such a prestigious prize, and to be able to hold the Made in Italy engineering in the world flag up high, therefore representing, here today, the technical and managerial excellence expressed by this sector. The aim of the women and men that have made this Group as great as it is, is building infrastructure able of tangibly improve the lives of many people in the world: from the metro lines in European cities, to the American roads, to the huge Australian and African hydroelectric plants, to all the bridges that the Group has built in the world. With the entire supply chain we built some of the most iconic works that have now become a benchmark for the sector, because each project is a one-of-a-kind project that only a premium, top-notch team can manage to build, using increasingly innovative solutions. I would therefore like to express my most sincere gratitude to everyone, also symbolically here today, because these people daily contribute to making this sector a Made in Italy success, through their commitment and passion, transparently and safely”.

Born in Rome in 1958, Salini managed to really propel Webuild's growth in recent years. And today, in fact, the Group stands proudly as the top leading company in the water sector, the first builder in Italy and among the Top 10 Players of the segment in Australia, the US and Europe. In 2023, the Group registered €10 billion in revenues, against the €2.3 billion of 2012, with a €64 billion order backlog, a presence in 50 countries, 87,000 employees and a supply chain of 19,400 companies. This growth allowed the Group continuous increasing investments even in occupational safety and training terms. And these results were made possible thanks to a strategic vision pursued by the Group, through seizing global opportunities and strengthening the existing trust between Webuild and its clients and stakeholders.

Webuild is the most recent chapter of a more than centenary history that integrated the best experience of companies of the sector. The dimension reached today by the Group allows it to be called for projects, providing its contribution in the greatest Italian and international projects. Webuild has in fact designed and built some of the world's most iconic works in the infrastructure sector, like the new Panama Canal, the Bosphorus Bridges, some of the metro lines in Paris, New York, Doha and Riyadh; and also some of the world's largest dams, without never forgetting the Salvage of the Temples of Abu Simbel in Egypt.  And today, the Group is working on some of the most technologically challenging projects like the Snowy 2.0 hydroelectric plant in Australia and the Trojena project in the futuristic Arab region of Neom, besides various high speed railway lines and metros in Italy.