- Italcementi Group

With an annual production capacity of approximately 70 million tons of cement, Italcementi Group is the world’s fifth largest cement producer. The Parent Company, Italcementi S.p.A., is one of Italy’s 10 largest industrial companies and is included in S&P/MIB Index of the Italian Stock Exchange and in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, the World Index related the Corporate Social Responsibility that includes the best performers companies.

Italcementi Group’s companies combine the expertise, know how and cultures of 22 countries in 4 Continents boasting an industrial network of 63 cement plants, 15 grinding centres, 5 terminals, 134 aggregates quarries and 613 concrete batching units.

In 2007 the Group had sales amounting to 6 billion Euro and a net income of 612.5 million Euro while sales volumes and internal transfers by business were: cement and clinker 64.6 Mt, aggregates 56.3 Mt and ready-mixed concrete 20.5 Mm³.

As a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Italcementi Group has signed the Cement Sustainability Initiative’s Agenda for Action, the first formal commitment that binds a number of world cement industry leaders to an action plan that aims at satisfying present-day needs at the same time as safeguarding the requirements of future generations.

To further confirm its commitment on these issues, the Group has taken over the co-Chairmanship of the Cement Sustainability Initiative for the period 2006-2007.