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Carmeuse

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Type
  
Private

Website
  
www.carmeuse.com

Revenue
  
1.13 billion EUR (2012)

Number of employees
  
4,000

Parent organization
  
Carmeuse Holding S.A.

Industry
  
Chemicals

Headquarters
  
Andenne, Belgium

CEO
  
Yves Willems

Founded
  
1860

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Key people
  
Axel Miller (Chairman of the board), Rodolphe Collinet (Chief Executive Officer)

Products
  
High calcium lime, High dolomitic lime, calcium hydroxide and limestone

CFO
  
Bruce Inglis (E-mail, [email protected])

Profiles

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Carmeuse is a Belgian mining company which produces lime and limestone. The Carmeuse Group has production facilities in Europe, North America and Africa. Its head office is located in Louvain-la-Neuve and the company Chief Executive Officer is Rodolphe Collinet

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History

The company was founded in 1860 in the city of Liège. Over the years the company expanded across Western Europe into Italy, France and the Netherlands, Central Europe and Eastern Europe into Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bosnia and Turkey and North America into the United States and Canada and also in Africa and Asia.

Activity

Lime products are used in multiple aspects of our everyday life. Carmeuse has developed many applications for industrial uses (steel, non-ferrous, chemicals, paintings, paper, carpets), for the agro-food industry (human food and animal feed), for the building industry (plasters and mortars, aerated autoclave concrete, calcium silicate bricks, ...) and for environment applications (water and sludge treatment, flue-gas desulfurization).

Results

Total consolidated group net turnover amounted to:

  • 850 million Euros in 2005
  • 940 million Euros in 2006.
  • 950 million Euros in 2007.
  • 1200 million Euros in 2008.
  • 944 million Euros in 2009.
  • 1100 million Euros in 2010.
  • 1129 million Euros in 2012.
  • 1142 million Euros in 2015.
  • News

    October 2007 - In a friendly deal with its partner, the Carmeuse Group takes over the control of Ozture Kimtas in Turkey

    October 2007 - Carmeuse has been selected as the winning bidder for Oglebay Norton

    September 2016 - Carmeuse signs its entry into South East Asia

    References

    Carmeuse Wikipedia