HeidelbergCement (Headquarters) - Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Company Profile

HeidelbergCement is one of the world’s largest building materials companies and operates on five continents. Our products are used for the construction of houses, infrastructure, and commercial and industrial facilities, thus meeting the demands of a growing world population for housing, mobility, and economic development. Our core activities include the production and distribution of cement, aggregates, ready-mixed concrete, and asphalt. Furthermore, HeidelbergCement offers services such as worldwide trading in cement and coal by sea. In around 60 countries across the world, HeidelbergCement stands for competence and quality. In the 140 years since its foundation in 1873, HeidelbergCement has grown from a regional cement manufacturer with one plant in Heidelberg to one of the world’s leading building materials groups. With the acquisition of Italcementi, HeidelbergCement is the number 1 producer of aggregates, the number 2 in cement, and number 3 in ready-mixed concrete worldwide. The enlarged Group has activites in around 60 countries with 58,000 employees working at more than 3,000 production sites. HeidelbergCement operates 156 cement plants with an annual cement capacity of 194 million tonnes, more than 1,700 ready-mixed concrete production sites, and over 600 aggregates quarries.