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CEMEX is a leading provider of building materials in the United Kingdom with vertically integrated cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, and asphalt operations. The company also is an important supplier of concrete blocks, concrete block paving, roof tiles, flooring systems, and sleepers for rail infrastructure.
| Cement Production Capacity (mmt/year) |
2.8 |
| Cement Plants |
3 |
| Ready-Mix Plants |
236 |
| Aggregates Quarries |
67 |
| Land Distribution Centers |
29 |
| Marine Terminals |
6 |
| Data as of December 31, 2008 |
Our ready-mix concrete—including our special self-compacting concrete, fiber-reinforced concrete, high strength concrete, flooring concrete, and filling concrete—is sold primarily to residential, commercial, and public contractors. Our aggregates provide the base material for all types of construction projects, either as an original material or as a component of ready-mix concrete, asphalt, or pre-cast concrete products. Our cement is sold mainly in bulk to ready-mix concrete, concrete block, and pre-cast product customers and contractors; our bagged cement is sold mostly to national builders' merchants and do-it-yourself superstores.
We continue to improve the efficiency of our cement operations. Among other initiatives, we have considerably increased our plants' capacity utilization, reduced our plants' maintenance costs and fuel consumption, and increased our plants' use of alternative fuels. We have also improved the productivity of our ready-mix concrete and aggregates operations. For example, as a result of our implementation of preventative maintenance practices across our operations, we have significantly reduced the maintenance costs of our cement, ready-mix concrete, and aggregates operations.
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