Cemex

CEMEX SA de CV is a global manufacturer of building materials, especially in the ready-mix concrete and the third largest cement manufacturer in the world (annual turnover of about $ 18 billion ) after the Swiss Holcim and the French Lafarge (end of 2007). Besides the two main divisions: Cement and Concrete Cemex operates the world's almost 400 mining sites of mineral raw materials such as sand, gravel and crushed stone. Furthermore, produces cement clinker and precast concrete products. Cemex is listed on the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores in Índice de Precios y Cotizaciones (IPC).

The company was founded in 1906 in Mexico, The company is based in Monterrey, Mexico. After restricting the activities until the early 1980's to Mexico, the company built its first position in the Americas and has been publicly traded since the mid- 1980s. From the 1990s, Cemex has bought a number of cement and concrete companies in the global market and quickly became a "global player". Through the acquisition of the U.S. company Southdown 2001 and the takeover of the British RMC Group ( better known as " Readymix " ) in 2005, Cemex became the world's largest ready-mixed concrete. In 2007, the Australian company Rinker was purchased. Because of this acquisition, the company had to separate antitrust grounds of his works for concrete, cement and aggregates in the U.S. states of Florida and Arizona. These were ( € 3.2 billion ) were sold to the Irish company Cement Roadstone Holding for 4.5 billion U.S. dollars.

CEO of the company is the Mexican Lorenzo Zambrano.

CEMEX Germany AG has approximately 3,200 employees.

In 2004, CEMEX received the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for the Latin America region for its creative and efficient use of information technology.

On 24 February 2009, the Board announced that the company is threatened with debt of around 19 billion dollars from bankruptcy and desperately need a refinance. At the same time ten percent of the workforce was announced to terminate. The planned sale of the Hungarian and Austrian works on the construction group STRABAG failed end of June 2009 to the lack of approval of the antitrust authorities.