Scotpa SA

What Scotpa SA does

SCOTPA is a French worker cooperative (Société Coopérative et Participative, SCOP) founded in July 1978 and headquartered in Gond-Pontouvre, Charente. The company provides public works services — primarily VRD (Voirie Réseaux Divers: road construction and utility network installation), asphalt production, material recycling, and equipment rental with driver — to local governments, municipalities, professional companies, and individual homeowners across the Charente, Charente-Maritime, and Gironde departments of southwestern France. SCOTPA self-describes as the largest independent public works company in the former Poitou-Charentes region, with social capital exceeding €500,000 and operations spanning more than 40 years.

Name

Scotpa SA

Legal name

SCOTPA

Website

https://scotpa.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1978

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Gond-Pontouvre

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Public works contracts: Core revenue from road construction, utility networks (VRD), and urban development projects for local governments and municipalities, accounting for the majority of business activity.
2. Equipment rental with driver: Exclusive rental of construction equipment and vehicles with experienced drivers, offering flexible and modular solutions for professionals and individuals.
3. Material trading (Négoce de matériaux): Sale of construction materials including recycled aggregates, produced through in-house recycling operations.
4. Asphalt production and sales: Production and sale of hot and cold mix asphalt for road construction projects.
5. Private residential work: Outdoor development services for individual homeowners including driveways, terraces, pathways, and various surface treatments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

SCOTPA is a French worker cooperative (SCOP) that performs public works and exterior development across the Charente, Charente-Maritime, and Gironde departments. The company builds roads and utility networks (VRD) for municipalities and businesses, produces and sells hot and cold mix asphalt, recycles construction demolition materials into reusable aggregates, rents construction equipment with experienced drivers, and delivers exterior development services (driveways, terraces, paving) to individual homeowners.

Product overview

SCOTPA SA is a Société Coopérative et Participative (worker cooperative) founded in 1978, specializing in public works and exterior development. The company operates as a single integrated offering with distinct service divisions: Travaux VRD (road and utility network construction), Revalorisation de matériaux (material recycling and crushing with an asphalt recycling ring since 2011), Location d'engins avec chauffeur (equipment rental with driver), Centrales d'enrobés (asphalt production with fixed and mobile plants), Bureau d'études VRD (engineering studies), and Aménagements extérieurs (exterior development for both public/collective and residential clients). The company also operates material trading (Négoce de matériaux) through its recycling platforms. With over 130 employees and operations spanning Charente, Charente-Maritime, and Gironde departments, SCOTPA is described as the largest independent public works company in Poitou-Charentes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Travaux VRD (Voirie Réseaux Divers) Road construction and utility network installation services for public and private projects, including road building, street development, and infrastructure work, delivered to municipalities and professional companies.
• Revalorisation de matériaux (Concassage et Recyclage) Material recycling and crushing services including recycled aggregate production, the asphalt recycling ring introduced in January 2011, and waste management with traceability documentation for construction demolition materials.
• Location d'engins avec chauffeur Heavy equipment rental exclusively with experienced SCOTPA drivers, providing a modern fleet of pavers, compactors, graders, excavators, trucks, and semi-trailers to professionals and individuals.
• Aménagements extérieurs pour particuliers Residential exterior development services for individual homeowners including driveways, terraces, paving and curb installation, decorative concrete (béton désactivé), asphalt paving, and bi-layer surface treatments.
• Centrales d'enrobés Asphalt production facilities operating one fixed hot mix asphalt plant, one fixed cold mix asphalt plant, one mobile hot mix asphalt plant, a crusher, a screener, and seven emulsion storage tanks of 38 to 80 cubic meters capacity.
• Bureau d'études VRD VRD engineering and design studies including project analysis, diagnostic assessment, topographical surveying, execution planning, and as-built documentation (plan de récolement) for public and private clients.
• Négoce de matériaux Construction material trading including aggregates and recycled materials sourced from the company's processing platforms in Gond-Pontouvre and Roullet-Saint-Estèphe.

Quantifiable outcome

• 60% recycled materials mandated in roadwork by 2020 per energy transition law
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• COLAS SA: Bouygues subsidiary and world leader in road construction and maintenance. Directly comparable as a road construction specialist serving municipal and government clients across France, though at vastly greater scale than SCOTPA.
• Eiffage Route: Road construction division of Eiffage Group, one of France's largest TP companies. Comparable in road works, asphalt production, and recycling operations; competes directly with SCOTPA on regional tenders.
• NGE (Générale d'Entreprises): Major independent French public works group active in road construction, utilities, and earthworks. Closely comparable as an independent (non-major-group) French TP operator competing in regional markets.
• Eurovia: Vinci's road construction subsidiary and one of the largest road builders globally. Direct peer in VRD, asphalt production, and material recycling, competing for many of the same French municipal tenders SCOTPA targets.

Broad incumbents

• Demathieu Bard: Independent French construction group operating in infrastructure, civil engineering, and public works. Comparable as an independent regional player in French TP but with broader geographic and segment reach than SCOTPA.
• Bouygues Travaux Publics: Bouygues's heavy infrastructure arm covering large-scale civil engineering projects. Comparable in public works execution and VRD capability but operates at significantly larger scale and complexity than SCOTPA.
• Spie Batignolles: French construction group active in civil engineering, infrastructure, and public works. Overlaps with SCOTPA in VRD and regional infrastructure projects but with broader scope including building and energy.

Others

• Fayat: French group operating in road construction equipment manufacturing and TP contracting. Relevant as both a potential equipment supplier/competitor in the regional TP equipment market SCOTPA operates in.

Regional players

• Charrier TP: Regional French public works company operating in western France with road construction and VRD services. Comparable in business model and target customer base, though not headquartered in SCOTPA's specific service area.
• Roger Martin: Independent French TP company based in Aquitaine with road construction, utilities, and material recycling. Closely comparable regional peer with similar integrated service offering and government client focus.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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