Aalborg Portland concists of two business regions:
Nordic and Overseas.
The Aalborg Portland Group develops, produces, distributes and markets a wide range of cements as well as ready-mixed concrete and aggregates (granite and gravel).
Cement and concrete are the building materials of today - and of the future: an indispensable element when we wish to maintain the continued development of society.
Aalborg Portland is the world's largest player in white cement with production plants in Denmark, Egypt, Malaysia, China and USA. The group produces more than 3 million tonnes of white cement and are in the process of expanding its capacity.
Aalborg Portland is the largest producer of ready-mixed concrete in Scandinavia with many production units in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, producing in total approximately 2 million m3 of concrete annually.
Furthermore, approx. 4 million tonnes of aggregates are sold from quarries and pits in Sweden and Denmark.
Aalborg Portland is the sole manufacturer of grey and white cement in Denmark with an annual capacity of 3 million tons of cement, and market leader in the Danish market. We export our products to a number of markets worldwide.
Cement and ready-mixed concrete are produced at highly advanced production plants, and we carry out intensive research into improvement of the cement's properties and improvements in terms of the environment and energy.
Furthermore, Aalborg Portland has sales and distribution companies in Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Poland, Russia, Italy, Portugal and Australia.
Aalborg Portland had in 2009 a net turnover of 445 million EUR and employed around 1,700 employees worldwide.
Company values
Aalborg Portland builds on three core values:
Responsibility, Cooperation and Competence.
As a leading player within the building material industry it has high priority to act in correspondence with these values. Aalborg Portland has a long tradition to take the necessary responsibility both environmentally as well as socially. Corporate Social Responsibility has been a part of the way Aalborg Portland has run its business for many years - towards the employees as well as towards the surrounding comunity.
The global development makes it very important to secure the necessary competencies to cover the development of Aalborg Portlands business strategies. Therefore focus on competence development is high, e.g. by means of talent and career development - as well as making sure the secure good and motivation working conditions to all employees.
Innovation
Aalborg Portland focuses on continuous innovation activities, which creates value for the firm as well as the external customers. For example through the creation of new products and manufacturing processes.
Also the aesthetics of the products and their applications as well as their durability have a high focus in order to use the concrete technology to enhance the usage of cement and concrete.
The innovation activities also have a long-term perspective. The research and development process works with new nano technologies in close cooperation with leading schools and universities to develop the cement and concrete of the future.
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Cementir Holding S.p.A.
Aalborg Portland is owned by the Italian cement group Cementir Holding S.p.A.
In 2008, as a consequence of the size and international dimension of the Group, Cementir SpA becomes a pure holding company named Cementir Holding S.p.A., with three fully owned operating subsidiaries: Cementir Italia, Aalborg Portland (Scandinavian & international operations) and Cimentas (Turkey).
Cementir Holding manufactures and distributes white and grey cement, aggregates, ready-mixed concrete and concrete products worldwide. With operations in 13 countries and over 3,400 employees,
Cementir Holding is world leader in white cement, it is the first Danish grey cement producer, the second producer in Scandinavia, the third in Turkey and the fourth in Italy. Besides being the leading ready-mixed producer in Scandinavia.
Since 1996, Cementir Holding has developed a geographical diversification strategy by investing over 1.1 billion EUR, which radically transformed the company into a multinational with:
- 20 cement production and grinding plants of which 4 in Italy, 4 in Turkey, 1 in Denmark, 5 in Portugal (in jv with CRH), 1 in Egypt, 3 in the USA (of which 2 in jv with HeidelbergCement and Cemex), 1 in China, 1 in Malaysia
- 6 in Italy, 90 in Scandinavia and 14 in Turkey
In 2009 Cementir Holding reached:
- sales of € 822.5 million, Ebitda of € 135.5 million and net profit of € 30 million
- cement production capacity of over 14 million tons
- ready-mixed concrete sales of over 3 million cubic metres
- aggregates sales of over 4 million tons.
