Heidelberg Materials

Cement

HQ Location Heidelberg, Germany
Market Capitalization 42.11 bil EUR (Jan 26)
Date Joined July 2021
Cement. Photo: Heidelberg Materials

Heidelberg Materials is one of the world’s largest building materials companies, providing products for the construction of houses, infrastructure, commercial and industrial facilities.

Founded over 150 years ago, Heidelberg Materials today has over 50,000 employees at almost 3,000 sites in over 50 countries. The company is one of the world’s largest integrated manufacturers of building materials and solutions with leading market positions in cement, aggregates and ready-mixed concrete.

Heidelberg Materials is also a front runner on the road to carbon neutrality and the circular economy in the building materials industry. Their overarching objective is to decarbonize cement and concrete products by developing intelligent, lower‑carbon and circular building materials. They are actively reducing carbon emissions in all parts of their businesses and large steps have been taken through fossil fuel substitution and recycling measures.

With their carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at a cement plant in Brevik, Norway, Heidelberg Materials is delivering evoZero® carbon captured cement with a net-zero footprint.

Member's thoughts

As one of the world’s largest producers of cement and concrete, Heidelberg will lead others to help drive collective action towards achieving carbon neutral concrete for the world. The LeadIT initiative offers great opportunity to accelerate this kind of collaboration.

Dr Dominik von Achten

Dr Dominik von Achten

Chairman of the Managing Board, Heidelberg Materials