URBAS – a global company specializing in sustainable infrastructure and building, real estate development and renewable energy – continues to advance its growth strategy. Just one day after announcing the strategic agreement with AECOM to develop international green hydrogen, green ammonia and sustainable fuels projects, the listed company announces the acquisition of NAISA, one of the most consolidated references in the natural stone industry in Spain, owner of one of the main open-cast marble quarries in Mula (Murcia).
The Mula deposit is a great industrial opportunity for URBAS and will also mean the creation of more than 100 direct and indirect jobs.
This exploitation is one of the most important deposits currently in operation in Spain. A solid and consolidated project with proven reserves of 2.8 million tons of marble valued at about 1,000 million euros according to the latest surveys and geological studies carried out.
NAISA is a company of Murcian origin with more than 50 years of experience in the marble and natural stone sector, present in the entire industrial value chain, from extraction in its own quarry to the sawing of blocks, treatment, processing and production of marble to its distribution and marketing both inside and outside Spain. And all this with the most avant-garde techniques and the latest technologies applied to all processes, adapted to current standards of efficiency, safety and sustainability.
This is the second operation acquired by URBAS after the purchase in 2020 of the feldspar mine in Muras in Lugo with reserves of 12 million tons valued at 660 million euros. It has recently obtained the green light from the Xunta de Galicia to start imminently the extraction works of this strategic mineral in the tile and ceramic industry.
Now, URBAS adds to its business perimeter this quarry in Mula, whose integration in the ‘Energy and Industry’ area of the group also guarantees the generation of recurrent cash in the long term as it is an operational marble quarry working at full capacity. And thanks to its experience in large infrastructure projects and its international positioning, it will strengthen the quarry’s export capacity in markets such as LATAM and the Middle East.
