About us

Our Company

INZAG Germany GmbH is a construction company headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, and founded in 2011 by one of the largest Latin American private corporate groups.

Our Purpose and Services

INZAG´s main purpose is to contribute to the economic and social development of African countries through the development of projects in the fields of logistics, water infrastructure, energy, mining and industrial plants, as follows:

 

  • Logistics: highways, railways, airports and ports;
  • Water infrastructure: drinking water treatment plant and distribution systems, wastewater treatment and disposal;
  • Energy: generation, transmission and distribution;
  • Mining: ferrous and non-ferrous processing plants;
  • Industrial plants: Chemical and petrochemical plants, and general utilities.

Our Future

We aim to consolidate our position as the leading German construction company with focus on Africa.

Our history

1948
1988
2005
2011
2018
2022

In 1948, three young engineers – brothers Gabriel and Roberto Andrade and their friend Flávio Gutierrez – founded the Andrade Gutierrez construction company in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

In 1988, the Portuguese company Zagope is taken over by the Brazilian group Andrade Gutierrez S.A. and begins to diversify the type of projects it develops, such as subways, airports, tunnels, etc.

2005 Zagope begins to plan and implement its first projects in Africa.

2011 INZAG Germany GmbH is founded with the aim of carrying out projects in countries that are in the process of reconstruction and economic upswing, but whose infrastructure still has significant deficiencies.

– In 2018 the branch office in Angola, INZAG Germany GmbH Sucursal Angola, is established.
– 2018 the branch in Ghana, the INZAG Germany GmbH Branch Ghana, is established.

Finishing/ handing over of first road construction project in Angola.

1948
1988
2005
2011
2018
2022
1948

In 1948, three young engineers – brothers Gabriel and Roberto Andrade and their friend Flávio Gutierrez
– founded the Andrade Gutierrez construction company in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

1948
1988

In 1988, the Portuguese company Zagope is taken over by the Brazilian group Andrade Gutierrez S.A. and
begins to diversify the type of projects it develops, such as subways, airports, tunnels, etc.

1988
2005

2005 Zagope begins to plan and implement its first projects in Africa.

2005
2011

2011 INZAG Germany GmbH is founded with the aim of carrying out projects in countries that are in the
process of reconstruction and economic upswing, but whose infrastructure still has significant
deficiencies.

2011
2018

– In 2018 the branch office in Angola, INZAG Germany GmbH Sucursal Angola, is established.
– 2018 the branch in Ghana, the INZAG Germany GmbH Branch Ghana, is established.

2018
2022

Finishing / handing over of first road construction project in Angola.

2022

 

Our presence

INZAG benefits from the experience of Andrade Gutierrez, with over 930 successfully completed construction contracts in a wide range of market segments and 70 years of project experience worldwide – 30 years of which in Africa alone.

Andrade Gutierrez (HQ Brasil)

  • Angola
  • Antigua
  • Argentina
  • Azores
  • Bahamas
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Cameroon
  • Chile
  • China
  • Columbia
  • Congo
  • Costa Rica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Ghana
  • Haiti
  • Iran
  • Libya
  • Mali
  • Mauritania
  • Mexico
  • Mozambique
  • Panama
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Portugal
  • Republic of the Congo
  • Spain
  • Venezuela
  • Zaire

INZAG (HQ Germany)

  • Angola
  • Ghana

Zagope (HQ Portugal)

  • Algeria
  • Angola
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Argentina
  • Brazil
  • Ghana
  • Lebanon
  • Mosambique
  • Peru
  • Portugal
  • Spain

Our management team

Chairman of the Board of Directors
Ricardo Sá
   Managing Director
CEO
Achim Becker

   Managing Director
CFO
André Giudice
Country Director Ghana
Fernando Mariano
Leandro Fernandez
Country Director Angola
Guilherme Sá
Director and Prokurist
Leandro Fernandez
Director Supply Chain
Benjamin Knell
Head of Structured Finance & New Businesses
Naim Danji
Director Business Development
Eduardo Struve

Corporate culture

Our corporate culture is the foundation of our work. We live our values from the simplest tasks to the most important strategic decisions and uphold them wherever we operate. Our values serve as a guide for our team, our projects and our offices in Africa.

We love what we do.

Construction is our passion. We are passionate about working for our clients and finding the best and most efficient solutions for our projects.

We are experienced.

We are connected by 70 years of family tradition and 30 years of project experience in Africa. We feel a special bond with the African continent.

We keep our promises.

We live reliability and transparency. Adherence to quality, costs and deadlines have top priority for us. We adhere to the strictest compliance rules without exception.

We are pro-active.

We are committed to our work and combine our experience with state-of-the-art solutions. We identify challenges at an early stage and find the best possible answer to every question.

We are committed.

We build sustainably. We are committed to our projects, the people involved and the environment, even beyond the project boundaries.

Compliance

We, in INZAG, conduct business according to ethical standards. Our Compliance and Integrity actions are a deployment of principles and values we want to disseminate even further. We strengthen this commitment daily, so that all those involved in INZAG operations around the world follow these same principles.

Whistleblower Channel

INZAG provides a whistleblowing hotline for internal and external stakeholders.

Any person can report actions that violate the guidelines of our Code of Ethics and Conduct, as well as other applicable policies, regulations and laws.

The service is available online and is operated by an external, specialized and independent company that guarantees transparency and anonymity, if the reporting person so wishes.

The report can also be made in person, upon contact by the reporting party via email: complianceinzag@inzag.de

INZAG guarantees that the whistleblower who raises his concerns or reports in good faith will not be subject to reprisals or sanctions.

Click here to go to the whistleblowing website.

Code of Ethics and Conduct

INZAG Germany GmbH follows the solid principles of Andrade Gutierrez Culture. Promoting ethics is the fundamental development of these principles and this is what has brought us here over more than 68 years of operation.

On that basis, the Code of Ethics and Conduct was created for all collaborators and partners to move forward together and accordant. Therefore, its mechanisms show that we wish to attract Clients not only by means of our technical skills, but mainly because of our ethical values.

Find more about our Code of Ethics and Conduct in this link

ISO Certification

Relevant documents

You can find more about our principles in our internal Standard for Relationships with Public Officials through this link and in our internal Standard for Relationships with Business Partners through this link.

For our Compliance Policy, please refer to this link.

For our Policy of Quality, Safety and Environment, please refer to this link.