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Global Concrete Report 2021

Concrete is the main constituent of modern civilisation. In this second edition of the Global
Concrete Report, Global Cement reviews trends in global concrete production in 2020-2021.
This edition includes the new Global Concrete Top 30, a run-down of the 30 leading ready-
mix concrete producers around the world, with detailed reports on each producer.

Front cover: Builders lay concrete
at a construction site in India
Source: Tiger Construction.
Right - Figure 1:
Global Concrete Top 30
concrete producers by share
of Top 30 concrete production
in 2020. See Table 1 (right)
for details.
Right - Figure 2:
Global Concrete Top 30
concrete producers by share
of global concrete production
in 2020. See Table 1 (right)
for details.
C Industry dynamics
oncrete is formed by the
hydration of cement in
the presence of aggregates.
All concrete begins life in
a fluid state, but sets to
form a durable solid.
10
This combination of
9
workability and du-
8 CEMEX
rability has ensured
concrete’s position as
7
the world’s foremost
building material. In
discussing global concrete
production, we will con-
sider both ready-mix concrete
and precast concrete. The former
makes up more than three quarters
of global concrete sales and will
be the subject of all statistical
analysis in the Global Con-
crete Report 2021.
A concrete plant
serves a small area - up
to between 20km and
30km in the case of a
ready-mix concrete
plant.1 As such, con-
crete plants are small
OTHERS
and numerous, situated
wherever construction
takes place - mostly in or
near major cities.
CHINA Figure 1 (left) shows the
NATIONAL
BUILDING
relative production shares
MATERIAL of each of the Global
11 - 30 Concrete Top 30 con-
crete producers in 2020.
GLOBAL CONCRETE TOP 30 Cement companies
dominate the listing.
416Mm3 Given their supply of
HEIDELBERG- concrete’s most expen-
BBMG
CEMENT sive ingredient, they are
CRH HOLCIM
well-positioned to extend
their existing operations
another step along the supply
chain. This enables them to max-
imise profit from their cement - and,
commonly, aggregate - pro-
duction. However, globally,
competition authorities
have often mobilised to
1 - 30 protect smaller down-
stream companies
against cement giants.
GLOBAL TOTAL Figure 2 (left) shows
global concrete produc-
10.1Bnm3 tion shares by producer.
The 9.69Bnm3-capacity
‘Others’ category con-
95%
9.69Bnm 3 sists of mostly small-scale,
localised and single-site con-
crete companies.

Right: Ready-mix concrete

pouring at a building site.
Source: Shutterstock.

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This edition of the Global Concrete Report builds Left: Poured concrete.
on data from the first edition using production sta- Source: Shutterstock.
tistics from concrete producers’ 2020 annual reports.
Companies do not have to publish their production
volumes, though many do. Others give us enough
information to produce a figure from the sum of
concrete sales and prices.

The limits of research

In the absence of date for concrete, estimates can
be calculated using known cement production. For
example, in the most recent published year - 2018 -
the UK produced 9.08Mt of cement and 22.5Mm3 of
concrete.2,3 We estimate that each tonne of cement
production gives rise to 2.48m3 of concrete.
We calculated global concrete production using
this conversion. 2020’s 4.10Bnt global cement pro-
duction thus gives us an estimated global concrete
production of 10.1Bnm3.4
References
1. Vicat, Annual Report 2020, file:///Users/media-1/Down-
loads/Annual%20Report%202020%20(1).pdf.
2. Statista, ‘Production of ready-mix concrete in Eu-
ropean countries in 2018,’ https://www.statista.com/
statistics/244083/.
3. Statista, ‘Production of cement (GB) from 2001 to 2019,’
https://www.statista.com/statistics/472849/
4. Statista, ‘Worldwide cement production, 2020,’ https://
www.statista.com/statistics/219343/.

Left - Table 1: Global

Rank Company Headquarters Production (Mm3) Top 30 share (%) Global share (%) Concrete Top 30 concrete
1 China National Building Material Beijing, China 112 27 1.1 producers, by ready-mix con-
crete sales volumes in 2020.
2 Cemex Mexico City, Mexico 47.0 11 0.5
Source: Company reports.
3 HeidelbergCement Heidelberg, Germany 46.9 11 0.5
4 Holcim Zug, Switzerland 42.3 10 0.4
5 CRH Dublin, Ireland 28.5 6.8 0.3 Companies wishing to be
included in future global
6 BBMG Corporation Beijing, China 16.2 3.9 0.2 rankings should send de-
7 China Resources Cement Shenzhen, China 15.0 3.6 0.2 tails of their most recent
actual annual ready-mix
8 Buzzi Unicem Casale Monferrato, Italy 11.7 2.8 0.1 concrete production (in
9 Vicat Paris, France 9.00 2.2 0.09 Mm3/yr) to the author,
at rmcc@propubs.com.
10 Shanghai Construction Group Shanghai, China 8.75 2.1 0.09
11 Grupo Argos Medellín, Colombia 8.03 1.9 0.08
12 Martin Marietta Materials Raleigh, US 7.68 1.8 0.08
13 US Concrete, Inc. Euless, US 7.54 1.8 0.07
14 Thomas Concrete Group Gothenburg, Sweden 5.40 1.3 0.05
= Titan Group Athens, Greece 5.40 1.3 0.05
16 Votorantim S.A. São Paulo, Brazil 5.30 1.3 0.05
17 Summit Materials Denver, US 5.25 1.3 0.05
18 Cementir Holding Rome, Italy 4.44 1.1 0.04
19 MDU Resources Bismarck, US 3.74 0.9 0.03
20 UltraTech Cement Mumbai, India 3.06 0.7 0.03
21 Siam City Cement Bangkok, Thailand 2.90 0.7 0.3
22 China West Construction Group Chengdu, China 2.84 0.7 0.03
= Vulcan Materials Birmingham, US 2.84 0.7 0.03
24 Colas Group Paris, France 2.60 0.6 0.02
25 Breedon Group St Helier, Jersey 2.55 0.6 0.02
26 Al Kifah Building Materials Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia 2.50 0.6 0.02
27 GCC Chihuahua City, Mexico 2.48 0.6 0.02
28 Limak Holding Ankara, Turkey 2.10 0.5 0.02
29 Çimsa Istanbul, Turkey 2.00 0.5 0.01
30 Anhui Conch Group Wuhu, China 0.46 0.1 0.01
TOTAL 416 100 5.0

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GLOBAL CONCRETE: TOP 10 COUNTRIES

Top 10 Countries 2021

As is the case with companies, a large proportion of the world’s concrete is produced by a
relatively small number of countries. The Global Concrete Report 2021’s new Global Concrete
Top 10 lists the largest from 2020. This will provide the basis for a country-by-country
analysis of global ready-mix concrete production.

Right - Figure 3: Global

concrete production in 2020
by country.
C oncrete was produced in all 192 countries in
2020. The volume which each country produced
was determined by its level of construction activ-
1. China: 2.84Bnm3/yr, 28%. CHINA
ity. A rapidly developing nation uses several cubic
2. India: 537Mm3/yr, 5.3%. metres of concrete per capita each year. This same 2.84Bnm3
nation is likely to produce a high ratio of ready-mix
3. US: 186Mm3/yr, 1.8%.
to precast concrete - as much as 7:1 in favour of the 28%
4. Vietnam: 141Mm3/yr, 1.4%. OTHERS
former.1 A developed country, by contrast, may have
5. Iran: 141Mm3/yr, 1.4%. a ratio as low as 3:1, due to its comparatively large 5.78Bnm3
6. Indonesia: 119Mm3/yr, proportion of infrastructure projects. Our analysis 54
here will centre on global ready-mix concrete pro- 57% 76 2
1.2%. 98
10 3
duction, which totalled 10.1Bnm3 in 2020.
7. Brazil: 115Mm3/yr, 11%.
Figure 3 (right) shows the shares of each coun-
8. Pakistan: 91.4Mm3/yr, try in the production total. 10 countries produced
9.0%.
4.23Bnm3, 42% of the global figure. These are
9. Japan: 89.2Mm3/yr, 8.8%. the Global Concrete Top 10. Of these, seven Asian
10. Nigeria: 63.9Mm3/yr, countries produced 3.96Bnm3 (94% of total Top 10
6.3%. production) of ready-mix concrete in 2020. Three
other continents each have a country in the Top 10. Global Concrete Top 10
These are North America (186Mm3 - 4.4%), South
Below - Figure 4: Global
Concrete Top 10 countries’
America (115Mm3 - 2.7%) and Africa (63.9Mm3 1. China
2020 ready-mix concrete - 1.5%). Figure 4 (below) plots each country’s ready- China’s 2.84Bnm3 ready-mix concrete production
production and population. mix concrete production against its population. accounted for 28% of global ready-mix concrete
production in 2020. It corresponds to an 11%
year-on-year rise from 2.55Bnm3 in 2019.2 Figure
6 (overleaf) shows annual ready-mix concrete
production levels for the six-year period ending in
3.0
China . 2020. Production rose every year except 2018 and
rose most sharply in 2019, by 41% year-on-year to
2.5 2.55Bnm3 from 1.80Bnm3 in 2018. In 2020, aver-
Ready-mix concrete production (Bnm3)

age ready-mix prices dropped by 4.0% nationally to

2.0 US$66.8/m3 from US$69.6/m3 in 2019.
Precast concrete production also increased in
2020, stimulated by the redoubling of infrastructure
1.5
investment in line with China’s ‘Made in China 2025’
policy.3 Precast concrete pile production increased
1.0 Iran by 42% year-on-year to 454,000km from 320,000km
Vietnam in 2019. Precast concrete pole production was 16.3m
Japan India . units, down by 10% from 18.1m units. The decline
0.5 Nigeria Brazil of precast pole production in favour of precast pile
.. . . US Indonesia
. .. Pakistan traces a shift in the source of demand away from
0.0 roadbuilding and towards more diverse applications.
0.3 0.6 0.9 1.2 1.5 Chinese ready-mix and precast grew through
the first year of the outbreak of Covid-19. But in an
Population (Bn) interconnected world, new variants may rejoin the
fight on old fronts. Even in China, there is no guar-
antee of growth in 2021.

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Left - Figure 5: Chinese
ready-mix concrete
production, 2015 - 2020.
3.0

2.5
Ready-mix concrete volume (Bnm3)

2.0

1.5

1.0

0.5

0.0
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Year

2. India

The Indian Concrete Institute did not Top 10 Country Factfiles

publish data for concrete production
in 2020. As such, we will need to China
translate the country’s cement Population: 1.40Bn
production figure - adjusted Gross domestic product (GDP): US$14.3tn
for exports and other uses - GDP per capita: US$10,200
into an estimate for ready-mix RMC production: 2.84Bnm3/yr
concrete production. This gives RMC production per capita: 2.03m3/yr
us a figure of 537Mm3, down by
27% year-on-year from 732Mm3
in 2019, due to Covid-19-led supply India
chain disruptions.4, 5, 6 This reverses Population: 1.35Bn
a longer-term trend: concrete GDP: US$2.87tn
production grew by 13% year- GDP per capita: US$2100
on-year in 2019 from 646Mm3 RMC production: 537Mm3/yr
in 2018, and every other year RMC production per capita: 0.40cm3/yr
except 2018 for the past decade.
The effects of the Covid-19 out-
break are still being felt in 2021.
After two years of stasis, the already
overcapacity cement industry was US
ill-prepared for the wholesale Population: 328m
return of construction in March GDP: US$19.4tn
2021. With cement in scarce GDP per capita: US$65,300
supply, prices rose and concrete RMC production: 186Mm3/yr
producers were confronted with RMC production per-capita: 0.57m3/yr
unprecedented costs. At the
same time, new Covid-19 cases
were spiralling, reaching 414,000
cases/day on 6 May 2021 - more than
triple the previous peak of 97,900 Vietnam
in September 2020. Even in the Population: 96.5m
midst of the second wave, Prime GDP: US$262bn
Minister Narendra Modi did GDP per capita: US$2720
not mandate a second national RMC production: 141Mm3/yr
lockdown. State lockdowns, RMC production per capita: 1.46m3/yr
however, continue to disrupt
demand and logistics. In the longer
term, India’s growing population (up

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by 1.0% year-on-year to 1.35bn in 2018

from 1.34bn in 2017) makes recovery
Iran
and growth the likely prospect.7
Population: 82.9m
3. The US GDP: US$454bn
GDP per capita: US$5500
In 2020, the US produced 186Mm3
RMC production: 141Mm3/yr
of ready mix concrete, in line with
RMC production per capita: 1.70m3/yr
2019 production.8 Precast concrete
production also remained level, at
25.5Mm3. Ready-mixed concrete pro-
duction consumed 75Mt (73%) of the
US’s 102Mt-worth of domestic cement Indonesia
deliveries, while precast concrete Population: 271m
consumed 10.2Mt (10%). There is GDP: US$1.12tn
a high ratio - despite the US’s level GDP per capita: US$4140
of development - of ready-mix to RMC production: 119Mm3/yr
precast concrete production (7:1). RMC production per capita: 0.44m3/yr
In its Spring 2021 Construction
Activity Outlook, the Portland Cement
Association forecast increased concrete
demand throughout 2021 and 2022
despite a decline in non-residential Brazil
construction.9 Non-residential Population: 211m
construction is forecast to return to GDP: US$1.84tn
growth in the medium-term future, GDP per capita: US$8720
aided by the government’s pro- RMC production: 115Mm3/yr
posed US$2.2tn eight-year federal RMC production per capita: 0.55m3/yr
infrastructure spending programme
- assuming vaccinations have controlled
the Covid-19 threat by then.

=4. Vietnam Pakistan

As no concrete production data are
published for the country, Vietnam’s
estimated 2020 ready-mix produc-
tion total of 141Mm3 was derived
from its 96Mt of cement production
in 2020 - down by 1.0% year-on-year
from 96.9Mt 2019 - adjusted to account for
exports of 31.6Mt, imports of 350,000t
and a transitional economy’s typical
22% of share of cement used for
purposes other than ready-mix
concrete production.10, 11, 12
The figure corresponds to a 10%
decline from 177Mm3 in 2019 - not
as sharp as that in other countries such
as India, possibly due to Vietnam’s early
successes in avoiding Covid-19-led dis-
ruption. Population growth was 1% in
2019, to 96.5m from 95.5m in 2018,
and development continues rapidly
in 2021. As such, both ready-mix
and precast concrete production
growth seem probable in 2022 or
sooner.
Population: 217m
GDP: US$278bn
GDP per capita: US$1280
RMC production: 91.4Mm3/yr
RMC production per capita: 0.42m3/yr
Japan
Population: 126m
GDP: US$5.08tn
GDP per capita: US$40,200
RMC production: 89.2Mm3/yr
RMC production per capita: 0.71m3/yr
Nigeria
Population: 201m
GDP: US$448bn
GDP per capita: US$2230
RMC production: 63.9Mm3/yr
RMC production per capita: 0.32m3/yr

=4. Iran
From the Iranian government’s national cement

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consumption figures, we can produce a ready-mix
concrete production estimate of 141Mm3 in 2020,
consistent with 2019 levels.13
6. Indonesia
Using Indonesian cement consumption data for
2020, we can produce a ready-mix concrete produc-
tion estimate of 119Mm3 and a precast concrete
production estimate of 34.7Mm3.14 Cement con-
sumption was 62.1Mt, up by 7.0% year-on-year from
58Mt in 2019, as an increase in residential renova-
tions offset the depressing effects of the Covid-19
outbreak on concrete demand.15 Of this, 37.2Mt
(60%) was used for housebuilding, 14.3Mt (23%) in
infrastructure and 10.6Mt (17%) for roadbuilding.
7. Brazil
2020 cement production data from the Brazilian Na-
tional Cement Association (SNIC), adjusted for trade
and other uses, converts to an estimate for Brazilian
ready-mix concrete production of 115Mm3 - down
by 1.4% year-on-year from 117Mm3 in 2019 - and
an estimate for national precast concrete production
of 43.7Mm3.16, 17 SNIC estimated that total cement
consumption would grow by no more than 1% in
2021 due to an anticipated economic downturn co-
inciding with the end of emergency state relief.
8. Pakistan
Pakistan produced some 91.4Mm3 of ready-mix
concrete in 2020.18, 19, 20 In May 2021, the All Paki-
stan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA)
forecast annual total cement consumption growth of
10 - 15% for the medium-term future, mainly due
to the US$62bn China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
infrastructure scheme. With a per-capita gross do-
mestic product (GDP) of US$1280 in 2019, down by
3 1
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13% year-on-year from US$1480 in 2018, Pakistan
is the poorest country in the Top 10. Challenges for
concrete production include high coal and energy
costs.
9. Japan
Japan’s estimated ready-mix concrete production
was 89.2Mm3 in 2020.21 Japan is in a minority in the
Global Concrete Top 10 both as a developed nation
and one whose population is declining - down by
0.2% year-on-year at 126m in 2019 from 127m in
2018.23 Population peaked in 2010 at 128m, at which
time ready-mix concrete production was 100Mm3/
yr. Considering this 11% ten-year decline, Japan’s
share of global ready-mix concrete production
seems likely to diminish in future reports.
10. Nigeria
In 2020, Nigeria’s estimated ready-mix concrete pro-
duction totalled 63.9Mm3, putting it in tenth place
globally, third outside of Asia and first in Africa. Below: World map showing
Global Concrete Top 10
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1. China National Building Material

The world’s largest ready-mix concrete producer is a relatively young company, dating
to 1984 when China National Building Materials Group Corporation merged with
China National Materials Group Corporation. China National Building Material is now
the world’s largest building materials producer and commands a ready-mix concrete
production capacity of 460Mm3/yr. In 2020, it produced 112Mm3 of ready-mix concrete,
corresponding to a capacity utilisation of 24%.1, 2

Below right - Figure 6:

China National Building
S tate-owned China National Build-
ing Material (CNBM)’s products
include ready-mix and precast con-
Company factfile

Material’s 2020 concrete China National Building Material

production by subsidiary.
1. South Cement:
54.7Mm3/yr, 49%.
2. China United Cement:
45.9Mm3/yr, 41%.
3. North Cement:
3.84Mm3/yr, 3.4%.
4. Tianshan Cement:
2.14Mm3/yr, 1.9%.
5. Ningxia Building
Material: 1.89Mm3/yr, 1.7%.
6. Qilianshan:
1.60Mm3/yr, 1.4%.
7. Southwest Cement:
885,000Mm3/yr, 0.8%.
8. Sinoma Cement:
590,000Mm3/yr, 0.5%.
Below: Raw materials storage
and conveying facilities at the
CNBM Zambia Industrial Park
in Lusaka, Zambia.
Source: CNBM Zambia
via Facebook.
crete, cement, gypsum wallboard
and glass fibre, of all of which it is
the world’s leading producer. The
company has six direct cement sub-
sidiaries alone, each with several
concrete-producing subsidiaries. At
the end of the first quarter of the 2021
financial year on 31 March 2021, the
value of its consolidated assets was
US$72.7bn.3
In 2020, CNBM sold 112Mm3 of ready-mix
concrete, in line with volumes in 2019. The figure
corresponds to 1.1% of global ready-mix concrete
production. Of the group’s subsidiaries, South Ce-
ment sold the most ready-mix concrete at 54.7Mm3
(49%), followed by China United Cement with
45.9Mm3 (41%). The pair, along with eight subsidi-
aries - North Cement, Tianshan Cement, Ningxia
Building Material, Qilianshan, Southwest Cement
and Sinoma Cement - accounted for 111Mm3 (over
99%) of ready-mix concrete production for the year.
Figure 6 (right) shows ready-mix concrete shares by
subsidiary. Group consolidated precast concrete vol-
umes grew by 51% year-on-year to 78.9Mt in 2020
from 52.3Mt.
CNBM produces concrete in China, in Tanzania
via its subsidiary Beijing New Building Materials
Headquarters: Beijing, China.
RMC production: 112Mm3/yr.
Sales in 2020: US$39.4bn.
6
4 5
3
7 8
OTHER SOUTH
CEMENT
CHINA UNITED 457,000m3
CEMENT 54.7Mm3
0.4%
45.9Mm3 49%
41%
and in Zambia via its subsidiary CNBM Zambia.
News
In March 2021, the group reorganised its subsidiar-
ies. It increased its Tianshan Cement stake to 88%
from 46%. The latter then acquired China United
Cement and Sinoma Cement outright. Tianshan Ce-
ment also took over a 1.3% stake in South Cement
from Jiangxi Wannianqing Cement for US$96m.
Meanwhile, China United Cement and Henan In-
vestment are planning an upcoming cement joint
venture. Their respective registered capital contribu-
tions will be US$937m and US$622m.
Through its subsidiaries, CNBM bought stakes in
several dedicated concrete companies in 2020 and
2021. The largest of these were Hunan Lefutian New
Materials Limited, Shaoguansi Qujiang Shunxiang

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Left - Figure 7: China

National Building Material
ready-mix concrete sales (red
150 60 bars) and consolidated sales
(black line), 2015 - 2020.
125 50
Ready-mix concrete volume (Mm3)

Consolidated sales (US$bn)

100 40

75 30

50 20

25 10

0.0 0.0
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Year

crete sales totalled US$7.90bn, down by 1.4% from

Chinese Yuan. Source: Shutterstock.
Concrete Company Limited and Tianshui Huajian
Concrete Engineering Company Limited.
Results
In 2020, CNBM’s consolidated net sales were
US$39.4bn, up by 0.5% year-on-year from
US$39.2bn. Its profit after tax rose by 18% to
US$3.34bn from US$2.85. Gross ready-mix con-
US$8.02bn, due to a 1.2% price drop to US$71.1/m3
from US$72.0/m3. Precast concrete sales rose, due to
a price drop of 15% to US$7.75/t from US$9.16/t, by
27% to US$609m from US$478m,
The group’s growth continued into the first quarter
of 2021, when it recorded a net profit of US$30.3m,
compared to a loss of US$7.75m in the first quarter
of 2020.
References
1. CNBM, ‘CNBM at a glance,’ 18 June 2021, https://www. Below - Figure 8: World
cnbm.com.cn/EN/0000001600070001/. map showing jurisdictions
2. China National Building Material Company Limited, in which China National
Building Material produces or
‘Annual Report 2020,’ 21 January 2021.
distributes concrete shaded
3. China National Building Material Company Limited, in red.
‘First Quarterly Report of 2021,’ 21 April 2021.

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Below: Cemex trucks at a
ready-mix concrete batching
plant in Germany.
Source: Shutterstock.
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2. Cemex
Mexico-based Cemex’s concrete production footprint covers more than 20 countries across
its four regions of Mexico, US, South and Central America and the Caribbean (SCAC) and
Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia (EMEAA). It sold 47Mm3 of ready-mix concrete in 2020,
0.5% of the global production total.1
T he world’s number-two producer of ready-mix
concrete, Cemex, operates 1340
ready-mix concrete plants globally,
250 (19%) of them in its native
Mexico. Here, the company’s
ready-mix concrete operations
are served by a fleet of 2200
trucks. 335 (25%) of the pro-
ducer’s ready-mix concrete plants are situated in the
US, while 678 (50%) are in Europe, the Middle East,
Asia and Africa (EMEAA) and a further 78 (6%) are
in South and Central America and the Caribbean
(SCAC). Figure 9 (below right) maps every country
and territory in which Cemex has ready-mix con-
crete production operations.
The group sold 47.0Mm3 of ready-mix concrete
in 2020, down by 6.0% year-on-year from 50.1Mm3
in 2019. Mexican volumes fell by 16% year-on-year,
while US volumes increased by 1.0%, SCAC vol-
umes fell by 34% and EMEAA volumes fell by 4.0%.
Company factfile
Cemex
Headquarters: Mexico City, Mexico.
RMC production: 47Mm3/yr.
Sales in 2020: US$13.0bn.
Cemex’s concrete offering consists of standard,
architectural, rapid-setting, fibre-reinforced, fluid-
fill, roller contracted, self-consolidating, pervious
and antibacterial ready-mix concrete; the company
does not, however, produce precast concrete.
Sustainability news
Cemex realigned its climate goals to the Science-
Based Targets Initiative (SBTi)’s Well Below 2°
scenario with a brace of new increased CO2 emis-
sions reduction targets on 25 June 2021. The group is
now targeting a 165kg/m3 reduction in its concrete’s
carbon footprint between 1990 and 2030.2 It plans
to invest US$60m/yr in efforts to meet the new tar-
gets. Key methods include producing concrete using
requisitioned industrial exhaust gas-carbonated
recycled concrete aggregates, which are currently
under development at Cemex France’s National
Technical Centre in Paris, Île-de-France. Chief
executive officer Fernando Gonzalez said “Climate
action is the biggest challenge of our times, and
Cemex is taking decisive action to address it. We
commit to continue leading the industry in climate
action.” The producer’s full-year 2020 CO2 emissions
reduction was 8.6Mt against the 1990 baseline, cor-
responding to a 23% reduction in CO2 emissions
per tonne of cementitious product. Subsequently, it
brought forward its previous 2030 target of a 35%
emissions reduction to 2025. In January 2021 alone,
Cemex launched operations at seven new sustain-
able growth investments across Europe. These
included a new lightweight concrete plant in Spain.
Cemex took a major step towards its target
of 100% net-zero CO2 concrete by 2050 with the
launch of its Vertua low and net-zero CO2 concrete
range in several European markets in mid-2020.3
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The range consists of Vertua Classic, Vertua Plus
and Vertua Ultra, with increasing degrees of CO2
emissions reduction from 20 - 30% for Vertua Clas-
sic up to 70% for Vertua Ultra. The Mexican and US
launches of Vertua concretes followed in December
2020, and Cemex España launched the range on the
Spanish market in 2021.
In January 2021, Cemex UK delivered on a
70.0m3 order for Vertua Classic to green hous-
ing company Citu’s Climate Innovation District in
Leeds, West Yorkshire. By mid-August 2021, it had
supplied 113,000m3 of Vertua concrete to 1700 pro-
jects across its home country of Mexico, with orders
from 500 future projects there.
Financial news
Ready-mix concrete accounted for US$5.33bn
(41%) of Cemex’s total US$13.0bn consolidated
sales in 2020, down by 3.5% year-on-year from
US$5.51 (42%) of US$13.1bn in 2019. Its operating
earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and
amortisation (EBITDA) for the year rose by 3.4% to
US$2.46bn from US$2.38bn. The company attrib-
uted this to an increase in sales volumes across all
products in the fourth quarter of 2020.
2020 saw Cemex continuing to implement cost-
saving initiatives and pursue its mid-2018 asset sales
target of US$1.50bn - US$2bn by the end of 2020. In
March 2020, it sold its 75% US-based Kosmos Ce-
ment stake for US$499m and, in August 2020, sold
some of Cemex UK’s assets including 49 of the lat-
ter’s 190 ready-mix concrete plants for US$230m. In
its full-year report, the company reported full-year
cost savings of US$280m, 22% higher than its target
for the year of US$230m.
MEXICO CITY,
MEXICO
The asset sales continued into 2021 with the
disposal of 24 of Cemex France’s concrete plants in
February 2021. The group said that the on-going
optimisation is aimed at weighting its portfolio more
towards the US and Europe. On 17 February 2021, it
acquired US-based Beck Readymix Concrete, which
operates four ready-mix concrete plants in Texas.
Cemex recorded first-quarter consolidated
ready-mix concrete sales of 11.6Mt in 2021, in line
with those in the first quarter of 2019.4 Its net sales
were US$3.41bn, up by 11% year-on-year from
US$3.07bn in the first quarter of 2020, with growth
in all four regions. Chief executive officer Fernando
González Olivieri surmised that Cemex now stands
at the start of sustainable growth in its main mar-
kets. On 24 June 2021, it revised its full-year earnings
before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisa-
tion (EBITDA) forecast to US$3.1bn in 2021, up by
26% year-on-year from US$2.46bn in 2020 and 6.9%
higher than its previous forecast of US$2.90bn.5
References
1. Cemex, ‘Integrated Report 2020,’ January 2021.
2. Global Cement, ‘Cemex realigns climate goals to Science-
Based Targets Initiative’s Well Below 2° scenario,’ 25 June
2021, https://www.globalcement.com/news/item/12611.
3. Global Cement, ‘Cemex to launch Vertua concrete
product worldwide,’ 30 October 2020, https://www.
globalcement.com/news/item/11544.
4. Cemex, ‘First Quarter Results 2021,’ 30 April 2021.
5. Cemex, ‘Cemex achieves investment-grade capital
Below - Figure 9: World map
structure,’ 24 June 2021, https://www.cemex.com/press-
showing jurisdictions in which
releases-2021. Cemex produces ready-mix
concrete shaded in blue.
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Right - Figure 10:
HeidelbergCement’s 2020
ready-mix concrete sales
volumes by business region.
Source: HeidelbergCement.
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3. HeidelbergCement
One of the oldest companies in the Global Concrete Top 30, HeidelbergCement will
celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2023.1 A truly global concrete giant, it has ready-mix
concrete operations in a total of 36 countries in September 2021.
F rom
Württemberg,
its eponymous
home town in Baden-
Germany,
Company factfile
HeidelbergCement
HeidelbergCement operates
a 1700-plant-strong global HQ: Heidelberg, Germany.
ready-mix concrete network RMC production: 46.9Mm3/yr.
stretching from the Arctic Sales in 2020: US$20.6bn.
Circle to Australia. 722 of WESTERN
its plants (43%) are in its AND
SOUTHERN
home region of Western EUROPE
AFRICA-
and Southern Europe.
EASTERN MED. BASIN
367 plants are in Asia- 5.00Mm3 11%
17.2Mm3
Pacific (22%); 327 are Sustainability
37%
in Northern and East- NORTH NORTHERN AND EASTERN On 22 July 2021, Hei-
ern Europe-Central AMERICA EUROPE-CENTRAL ASIA delbergCement signed
6.00Mm3 13%
Asia (19%); 193 are in the Science-Based Tar-
7.80Mm3
North America (11%) gets Initiative (SBTi)’s
and 88 are in Africa- 17% 10.6Mm3 Business Ambition for
Eastern Mediterranean ASIA-PACIFIC 1.5°C commitment and
23%
Basin (5%). In 2020, Heidel- joined the UN Framework
bergCement’s ready-mix concrete Convention on Climate Change’s
production fell by 7.4% year-on-year Race to Zero coalition, confirming its
to 46.9Mt from 50.7Mm3. Only North commitment to net-zero carbon emissions
America recorded an increase in volumes, of 0.9% by 2050 in its global activities. The group prepared
to 7.8Mm3 from 7.7Mm3.2 Volumes fell by 4.7% to for this by creating a new board position of chief
5.0Mm3 from 5.3Mm3 in Africa-Eastern Mediter- sustainability officer (CSO), to which it appointed
ranean Basin, by 6.4% to 17.2Mm3 from 18.4Mm3 Nicola Kimm.
in Western and Southern Europe and by 11% to In its 2020 Sustainability Report, HeidelbergCe-
6.0Mm3 from 6.8Mm3 in Northern and Eastern Eu- ment recorded a specific net CO2 emissions
rope-Central Asia. The sharpest decline was of 12%, reduction of 2.2% year-on-year to 576kg/t of ce-
to 10.6Mm3 from 12Mm3, in Asia-Pacific. Figure 10 mentitious material in 2020 from 589 kg/t in 2019,
(above right) shows all five regions’ ready-mix con- corresponding to a 23% reduction since 1990,
crete volumes and shares of the group total. against a target of 30% by 2025. During the year, the
group joined climate lobby group Foundation 2°,
News and achieved a CDP climate protection rating of A
and a water security rating of A-.
HeidelbergCement is currently reforming its The group is a collaborator on C2inCO2, the Ger-
ready-mix concrete operations ‘from the ground man government-led study aimed at accelerating
up’ through an improvement programme covering natural CO2 binding in the lifespan of concrete.
raw material delivery, logistics, production, product
range and concrete plants and pumps, with the twin Financial news
objectives of generating savings and improving the HeidelbergCement’s full-year consolidated sales fell
quality of products and services. by 6.9% year-on-year in 2020 to Euro17.6bn from
The company has developed a number of highly Euro18.9m in 2019. The sharpest regional sales de-
specialist concretes, such as fibre-reinforced I.power cline was in Asia-Pacific, of 11% to Euro3bn from
Riginera ready-mix concrete for the rehabilitation Euro3.37bn, and sales fell in all regions except Af-
of pillars and supports, and reduced-CO2 I.tech 3D rica-Eastern Mediterranean Basin, where they rose
ready-mix concrete for use in 3D printing. by 4.7% to Euro1.77bn from Euro1.69bn.
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Left: A ready-mix concrete

plant in Rotterdam,
Netherlands operated
by HeidelbergCement
subsidiary Mebin.
Source: Shutterstock.

The group attributed the decline to the impacts References

of the coronavirus outbreak on construction activity.
The group improved its result in the second half of 1. HeidelbergCement, ‘HeidelbergCement
2020 by implementing cost-saving programmes. Group Presentation 2021,’ 23 March 2021, file:///Users/
HeidelbergCement’s first-half consolidated sales media-1/Downloads/heidelbergcement-group-presenta-
rose by 8% year-on-year in 2021 to Euro8.94bn tion%20(1).pdf.
from Euro8.25bn in the first half of 2020. The group
Below - Figure 11: World
recorded a profit for the period of Euro825m, com- 2. HeidelbergCement, ‘Annual Report 2020,’ 27 January
map showing jurisdictions
pared to a Euro3.1bn loss in the first half of 2020. 2021, file:///Users/media-1/Downloads/annual-report- in which HeidelbergCement
It reduced its net debt by 17% to Euro7bn from heidelbergcement-2020%20(1).pdf. produces ready-mix concrete
Euro9bn. Chair Dominik von Achten subsequently shaded in green.
announced the company’s first share buyback pro-
gramme.

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4. Holcim

No other company produces ready-mix concrete in more countries than Switzerland-based

Holcim - 41, at the most recent count.1 It rebranded in July 2021.

H olcim, then called LafargeHolcim, recorded

Below - Figure 12: World map
showing jurisdictions in which
Holcim produces ready-mix
concrete shaded in blue.
consolidated ready-mix concrete sales of
42.3Mm3 in 2020, down by 5% year-on-year from
47.7Mm3 in 2019.2 Volumes fell across all of Holcim’s
five business regions in 2020: in Europe by 6.2%
year-on-year to 18.1Mm3 (43%) of group ready-mix
concrete production) from 19.3Mm3 in 2019, in
North America by 2% year-on-year to 10Mm3 (24%)
from 10.2Mm3, in Asia Pacific by 23% year-on-year
to 7.4Mm3 (17%) from 9.6Mm3, in Latin America
by 18% year-on-year to 4Mm3 (9.5%) from 4.9Mm3
and in Middle East Africa by 29% year-on-year to
2.0Mm3 (6.5%) from 3.8Mm3. The group also sells
precast concrete products
via its Solutions and Prod-
ucts division.
News and results
In 2020, Holcim launched its ECOPact reduced-CO2
green concrete across 14 markets globally, beginning
with Germany and Switzerland. The ECO label des-
ignates products with at least a 30% CO2 emissions
reduction compared to ordinary Portland cement
(OPC)-based equivalents or 20% recycled content.
Orders for ECOPact include 800,000m3 for an up-
coming high-speed rail link in the UK. The group
Company Factfile
Holcim
HQ: Zug, Switzerland.
RMC production: 42.3Mm3/yr.
Sales in 2020: US$24.8bn.
also produces a ‘recycled’ cement, Susteno, using
20% recycled concrete.
Holcim’s consolidated sales were US$24.8bn in
2020, down by 15% year-on-year from US$29.1bn
in 2019. In the first half of 2021, sales grew by 17%
to US$13.6bn from US$11.6bn in the first
half of 2020.
References
1. Holcim, ‘Directory,’ https://www.holcim.com/
directory.
2. Holcim, ‘Integrated Annual Report 2020,’ 26 February
2021, https://annual-report.lafargeholcim.com/index.php?
eID=dumpFile&t=f&f=58&token=4b1b3f427998362b89f4
24f938bdea20d93c1ac5.

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5. CRH

Ireland-based and westward-looking, CRH produces concrete under various trade names
including Oldcastle in North America and Opterra in Europe. Its product portfolio covers
ready-mix, precast and architectural concrete.

C RH’s business model is based on

growth through acquisitions.
In 2020, the group invested a total of
US$405m - down by 21% year-on-
year from US$514m in 2019 - in 17
new acquisitions.1
Ready-mix concrete production
fell by 9% in 2020 to 28.5Mm3 from
31.3Mm3. CRH’s ready-mix concrete
operations span two divisions: Europe
Materials and Americas Materials. The
former produced 15.7Mm3 of ready-mix concrete
in 2020, 55% of the total; the latter 12.8Mm3 (45%).
Europe Materials’ several concrete product busi-
nesses sold 7.5Mt of precast concrete. Meanwhile,
the Building Products division produces architec-
tural products including concrete masonry.
CRH is committed to the UK-based Global Ce-
ment and Concrete Association (GCCA)’s 2050
Climate Ambition of CO2-neutral concrete produc-
tion by 2050.
Results
2020 brought ‘muted’ acquisition activity, but the
Company factfile
CRH
Headquarters: Dublin, Ireland.
RMC production: 28.5Mm3/yr.
Sales in 2020: US$27.6bn.
group retains a ‘strong pipeline’ of development
opportunities within its strategic footprint. CRH’s
full-year consolidated sales declined by 13% year-
on-year to US$27.6bn in 2020 from US$31.7bn in
2019. Earnings before interest, taxation, depre-
ciation and amortisation (EBITDA) rose by 3.3% to
US$4.63bn from US$4.48m.
References
Below - Figure 13: World
1. CRH, ‘2020 Annual Report,’ 4 March 2021, https://www.
map showing jurisdictions in
crh.com/media/3532/crh-annual-report-2020.pdf. which CRH produces ready-
mix concrete shaded in blue.

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6. BBMG Corporation

China-based BBMG Corporation commands a capacity of 60Mm3 across its ready-mix

concrete operations, which are centred on Beijing, Hebei and Tianjin.1 It characterised its
operations in 2020 as ‘striving for growth while maintaining stability.’

S t a t e -
owned
BBMG Cor-
Company factfile
BBMG Corporation
p o r a t i o n’s
business HQ: Beijing, China.
model con- RMC production: 16.2Mm3/yr.
sists of four Sales in 2020: US$16.7bn.
segments: cement and ready-mixed concrete, mod-
ern building materials, commerce and logistics and
property Development. Corporation does not produce precast concrete.
Of interest to us is the first, which turned out
16.2Mm3 of ready-mix concrete in 2020, down by Results
7.7% year-on-year from 17.5Mm3 in 2019. BBMG In 2020, BBMG Corporation recorded a consoli-
dated sales rise of 18% year-on-year to US$16.7bn
Right: Tianjin, China. from US$14.2m in 2019. Its net profit dropped by
Source: Shutterstock.
0.5% to US$795m from US$799m.

References
Below - Figure 14: World 1. BBMG Corporation, ‘2020 Annual Report,’ 25
map showing jurisdictions March 2021, https://bbmg-umb.azurewebsites.net/
in which BBMG Corporation media/1251/2020-annual-report.pdf.
produces ready-mix concrete
shaded in red.

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7. China Resources Cement

China Resources Cement was incorporated in the Cayman Islands in 2003. It directly
owns a total of 60 ready-mix concrete plants across seven Chinese provinces - three in
northern China and four in southern China near to its modern headquarters of Shenzhen,
Guangdong province. The group’s ready-mix concrete capacity totals 36Mm3/yr.1

C hina’s
private
concrete
largest
sector
company,
Company factfile
China Resources Cement
China Resources
Cement, produced HQ: Shenzhen, China.
15Mm3 of ready-mix RMC production: 15.0Mm3/yr.
concrete, down by 5.6% year-on-year Sales in 2020: US$5.14bn.
from 15.9Mm3 in 2019. Group ready-mix concrete
production capacity utilisation decreased to 38%
from 39%. The group is increasingly also a precast
concrete producer: in 2020 alone, it increased its (Cement) Limited, a company incorporated in the
precast concrete capacity by 900,000m3/yr. British Virgin Islands, is the Company’s immediate
holding company Below - Figure 15: World
Results map showing jurisdictions
in which China Resources
China Resources Cement’s total sales increased References Cement produces ready-mix
in 2020 by 2.9% year-on-year to US$5.14bn from 1. China Resources Cement, ‘Annual Results 2020,’ 8 March concrete shaded in orange.
US$5.00bn in 2019. Total concrete sales increased 2021, https://www.crcement.com/home/Investorrelations/
by 5.5% to US$841m from US$887m in 2019, while Resultsannouncement/Annual_performance/202103/
profit attributable to the owners of the company P020210325331418446115.pdf.
rose by 4% to US$1.15bn from US$1.11bn. CRH

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Below: A ready-mix concrete
plant in Ludwigshafen,
Germany, operated by Buzzi
Unicem subsidiary Dyckerhoff.
Source: Shutterstock.
Bottom - Figure 16: World
map showing jurisdictions in
which Buzzi Unicem produces
ready-mix concrete shaded
in blue.
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8. Buzzi Unicem
Italy-based Buzzi Unicem’s ready-mix concrete operations extend over eight European
countries, Mexico and the US.1 The group currently does not produce precast concrete.
B u z z i
Un i c e m
sold 11.7Mm3
Company factfile
Buzzi Unicem
of ready-mix
concrete in HQ: Casale Monferrato, Italy.
2020, down by RMC production: 11.7Mm3/yr.
3.1% year-on-year from 12.1Mm3 in 2019. The com- Sales in 2020: US$3.78bn.
pany said that a second-half recovery partly offset
the Covid-19-led contraction in concrete consump-
tion with a slight year-on-year price rise. Only in Results
Germany did volumes increase.
Full-year consolidated sales remained level year-on-
year for Buzzi Unicem in 2020 at Euro3.22bn, while
net profit rose by 45% to Euro561m from Euro386m.
Earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and
amortisation (EBITDA) was Euro781m, up by 7.2%
from Euro728m. The group more than halved its net
debt to Euro242m from Euro568m.
References
1. Buzzi Unicem, ‘Annual Report 2020,’ 8 Febru-
ary 2021, https://www.buzziunicem.com/documents/
2 0 1 4 3 / 0 / A n nu a l % 2 0 R e p or t % 2 0 2 0 2 0 / c d c 4 b 0 7 e -
6667-9d9b-bc1d-f45d0ded094a?version=1.4.
CASALE MONFERRATO,
ITALY
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9. Vicat

In 2020, France-based Vicat’s 258 ready-mix concrete plants produced 9Mm3 of concrete,
in line with 2019 volumes.1

V icat’s ready-mix concrete net-

work consists of 258 plants in
five of its six geographical regions.
Company factfile
Vicat
147 plants are located in France, 55
in Americas, 37 in Mediterranean, Headquarters: Paris, France.
18 in Rest of Europe, and one in West RMC production: 9Mm3/yr.
Africa. In each region, Vicat produces Sales in 2020: US$3.3bn.
concrete in a single country, except in
Americas, where it operates plants in both
Results
Brazil and the US (see Figure 17, below). The
group does not produce precast concrete. Vicat’s consolidated sales in 2020 were
Developments in 2020 included the opening Euro2.81bn, up by 2.4% year-on-year from 2.74bn
of a new ready-mix concrete plant at Port Édouard in 2019. Its earnings before interest, taxation, depre-
Herriot in France’s Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. ciation and amortisation (EBITDA) rose by 5.9% to
Euro557m from Euro526m.
Sustainability news
Vicat’s DECA product labels, newly launched in References
Below - Figure 17: World
2020, designate concretes with various levels of CO2 1. Vicat, ‘Annual Report 2020,’ 15 February 2021, file:///
map showing jurisdictions in
emissions reduction, beginning at 10%. Also in 2020, Users/media-1/Downloads/Annual%20Report%20 which Vicat produces ready-
Vicat developed the world’s first bio-based ready- 2020%20(1).pdf. mix concrete shaded in blue.
mix concrete, consisting of its Naturat reduced-CO2
cement, wood aggregate and a mineral filler.

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10. Shanghai Construction Group

From one of the more geographically diffuse ready-mix concrete producers, we proceed
to one of the most localised. State-owned Shanghai Construction Group predominates in
the ready-mix concrete market in Shanghai municipality.

S hanghai Construction Group

Below - Figure 18: World
map showing jurisdictions in
which Shanghai Construction
Group produces ready-mix
concrete shaded in black.
arose with the skyscrapers of
Shanghai during the city’s 1990s
construction boom. Its growth has
hardly slowed and in September
2021 its ready-mixed concrete
production capacity exceeds
30Mm3.1 Using the capacity utili-
sation figure for fellow state-owned
producer BBMG Corporation in 2020,
we arrive at a production estimate for the year of
8.75Mm3.2 The group’s precast concrete production
capacity is 750,000m3.2
Unlike previous entries in the Global Concrete
Top 30, Shanghai Construction Group is primar-
ily a construction firm which moved ‘upstream’ to
produce concrete through its subsidiary Shanghai
Construction Materials. Though still focused on
Shanghai, it has also expanded into the neighbouring
provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as well as Anhui
and Sichuan further inland. In 2019 alone, the group
established 24 new ready-mix concrete plants outside
of Shanghai.
On 1 September 2020, Shanghai Construction
Group launched an initial public offering for Shang-
hai Construction Materials.
Company Factfile
Shanghai Construction Group
HQ: Shanghai, China.
RMC production: 8.75Mm3/yr.
References
1. Xinhua Finance, ‘Shanghai Construction Engineer-
ing Materials Company’s ready-mixed concrete output is
expected to exceed 30.0Mm3,’ 26 June 2019, http://news.
xinhua08.com/a/20190626/1853497.shtml?ulu-rcmd=0_
comdf_art_4_80ef3f0f44844c428ca69fdfeb24fbe9.
2. BBMG Corporation, ‘2020 Annual Report,’ 25 March 2021,
https://bbmg-umb.azurewebsites.net/media/1251/2020-
annual-report.pdf.
3. Xinhua Net News, ‘The third single A-share spin-
off and listing: Shanghai’s largest concrete company’s
separate IPO,’ 1 September 2020, http://www.xinhuanet.
com/fortune/2020-01/09/c_1125438348.htm.

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11. Grupo Argos

References
Headquarters: Medellín, Colombia.
1. Grupo Argos, ‘Cementos Argos Reports Fourth Quarter
RMC production: 8.03Mm3/yr. 2020 Financial Results,’ 24 February 2021, https://ir.argos.
co/Portals/1/Temp/2962/Report%204Q20.pdf.
Consolidated sales in 2020: US$3.61bn. 2. Cementos Argos, ‘Home - Argos Investors,’ 28 July 2021,
Below - Figure 19: Grupo
https://ir.argos.co/en/. Argos’ ready-mix concrete
sales, 2015 - 2020.

G rupo Argos is a market-leading ready-mix con-

crete producer in Colombia, Central America,
the Caribbean and the US.1 In 2020, it recorded
ready-mix concrete sales volumes of 8.03Mm3, 12
down by 21% year-on-year from 10.1Mm3 in 2019,
10
after a fifth successive year of decline (see Figure
Ready-mix concrete volume (Mm3)
19, right).2 Its ready-mix concrete capacity utilisa- 8.0
tion was 50%. As a result, Grupo Argos drops out
of the Global Concrete Top 10 for the first time in 6.0
2020. Its US ready-mix concrete sales were 5.87Mm3
- corresponding to 73% of total sales - down by 17% 4.0
year-on-year from 7.06Mm3 in 2019. Colombian
2.0
sales were 2.03Mm3 (25%), down by 26% from
2.73Mm3, and its Caribbean and Central America 0.0
sales were 131,000m3 (2.0%), down by 63% from
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
349,000m3.
In 2020, Grupo Argos recorded consolidated Year
sales of US$3.61bn, down by 17% year-on-year from
US$4.33bn in 2019.

12. Martin Marietta Materials

Headquarters: Raleigh, US.
RMC production: 7.68Mm3/yr.
Consolidated sales in 2020: US$4.73bn.
News
On 24 May 2021, Martin Marietta Materials agreed
to buy Germany-based HeidelbergCement sub-
sidiary Lehigh Hanson’s US West business for
US$2.3bn.2 The business includes ‘several’ ready-mix
concrete plants. The deal is scheduled to conclude in
mid-late 2021. The acquisition aims to capitalise on
increased long-term state infrastructure investment

N orth Carolina-based Martin Marietta previ-

ously ranked 14th in the Global Concrete Top
30. It is the first of five Top 30 ready-mix concrete
in California and Arizona and continued private-
sector growth across the western US.

companies from the US, a market characterised by References

intense competition between large national produc-
ers. Only Marietta Materials’ West group is involved
in its ready-mix concrete production, operating
120 ready-mix concrete plants in 2020.1 That year,
ready-mix concrete sales fell by 1.6% year-on-year
to 7.68Mm3 from 7.77Mm3 in 2019. Concrete sales
increased in value by 0.4% to US$952m, from
US$948m, while the company’s consolidated sales
fell by 0.2% to US$4.73bn from US$4.74bn.
1. Martin Marietta Materials, ‘Annual Report 2020,’ 31
December 2020, https://ir.martinmarietta.com/static-
files/8706eebb-26f2-40ed-a3cd-1f6e72ddc9ea.
2. Martin Marietta Materials, ‘Martin Marietta An-
nounces Acquisition of Lehigh Hanson’s West Region
Business,’ 24 May 2021, https://ir.martinmarietta.com/
news-releases/news-release-details/martin-marietta-
announces-acquisition-lehigh-hansons-west-region.

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Below: Thomas Concrete
Group trucks in the US.
Source: Thomas
Concrete Group.
27 Global Concrete Report 2021
13. US Concrete, Inc.
Headquarters: Euless, US.
RMC production: 7.54Mm3/yr.
Consolidated sales in 2020: US$1.37bn.
U S Concrete, Inc.’s ready-mix concrete produc-
tion footprint covers three regions, namely
East, West and Central US, where it leads the market
in New York City, New Jersey, San Fransisco Bay, US
Virgin Islands, West Texas and its native Dallas-Fort
Worth.1 In 2020, it operated 155 fixed and a further
39 portable ready-mix concrete plants.
Ready-mix concrete sales fell by 10% year-on-year
to 7.54Mm3 in 2020, generating US$1.2bn-worth
of revenues. US$781m (57%) of this derived from
commercial and industrial construction, US$343m
(25%) from residential construction and US$247m
(18%) from infrastructure.The group’s consolidated
=14. Thomas Concrete Group
Headquarters: Gothenburg, Sweden.
RMC production: 5.40Mm3/yr.
T homas Concrete Group produces ready-mix
concrete at 154 plants in four countries: 73
in the US, in Georgia, North Carolina and South
Carolina, 36 in Sweden, 26 in Germany and 20 in
revenues were US$1.37bn, down by 7.6% year-on-
year from US$1.48bn in 2019.
Sadly, the Global Concrete Report 2021 will be the
last edition in which US Concrete appears. From the
Global Concrete Report 2022, its production will be
amalgamated with that of current global number-19
ready-mix concrete producer Vulcan Materials, fol-
lowing its agreement to be acquired by the latter for
US$1.29bn in June 2021.2
References
1. US Concrete, Inc., ‘FORM 10-K,’ 16 Febru-
ary 2021, https://investorrelations.us-concrete.com/
static-files/29679962-25ba-4c6b-8690-381e68565347.
2. Global Cement, ‘Vulcan to buy US Concrete for
US$1.29bn,’ 8 June 2021, https://www.globalcement.com/
news/item/12510-vulcan-to-buy-us-concrete-for-us-
1-29bn.
Poland.1 It also operates four precast concrete plants,
all in Sweden.
In 2020, the company recorded global ready-mix
concrete sales of 5.40Mm3. Its consolidated turnover
was US$862m.
References
1. Thomas Concrete Group, ‘Welcome to Thomas Concrete
Group,’ 1 May 2021, https://thomasconcretegroup.com/us/
about-us/about-thomas-concrete-group.
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=14. Titan Group
Headquarters: Athens, Greece.
RMC production: 5.4Mm3/yr.
Consolidated sales in 2020: US$1.89bn.
T itan Group increased its sales volumes in 2020,
by 3.8% year-on-year to 5.4Mm3 from 5.2Mm3.
During the year, it operated 120 ready-mix concrete
plants - 82 in the US, 28 in Greece and Western Eu-
16. Votorantim S.A.
Headquarters: São Paolo, Brazil.
RMC production: 5.30Mm3/yr.
Consolidated sales in 2020: US$3.19bn.
V otorantim S.A. produces ready-mix concrete at
152 plants in seven countries: Brazil, Canada,
the US, Uruguay, Morocco, Spain and Turkey.
17. Summit Materials
Headquarters: Denver, US.
RMC production: 5.25Mm3/yr.
Consolidated sales in 2020: US$2.3bn.
S ummit Materials’ name honours its Rocky Moun-
tain heritage. In 2020, it climbed to a consolidated
sales high of US$2.3bn, up by 45% year-on-year
from US$2.2bn.1 Its ready-mix concrete sales also
rose, by 4.4% to 5.25Mm3 from 5.03Mm3.
In total, the producer recycled 407,000t of waste
concrete in 2020, down by 16% from 483,000t in
2019 due to Covid-19-led supply disruptions.
rope, six in Southeastern Europe and four in Brazil
- and four precast concrete plants, all in the US.
The group’s full-year 2020 consolidated sales were
US$1.89bn, in line with its 2019 result. Its earnings
before interest, taxation, depreciation and amorti-
sation (EBITDA) rose by 7.1% to US$336m from
US$314m.
References
1. Titan Group, Integrated Annual Report 2020, https://
w w w.titan-cement.com/TITAN_C ement_Group_
IAR_2020_EN.pdf.
News
In June 2021, Votorantim S.A. gained ‘several’ new
Spanish ready-mix concrete plants with its agree-
ment to acquire US-based investments company
KKR’s subsidiary Cementos Balboa.
References
1. Votorantim Cimentos, ‘2020 Integrated Report,’ 9 April
2021, https://www.votorantimcimentos.com.br/download/
en/integrated-report-2020.pdf.
2. Global Cement, ‘Votorantim Cimentos to buy Cementos
Balboa in Spain,’ 30 June 2021, https://www.globalcement.
com/news/item/12633-votorantim-cimentos-to-buy-
cementos-balboa-in-spain.
In the first half of 2021, Summit Materials
increased its ready-mix concrete sales by 7% year-
on-year to 2.16Mm3 from 2.02Mm3 in the first half
of 2020.
Global Cement Magazine previously reported
on 14 June 2019 that Summit Materials was in talks
to merge with Colombia-based Grupo Argos. The
combination of the pair’s fairly evenly sized US
ready-mix concrete operations would have resulted
in sales volumes of 11.2Mm3 in the country in 2020.
No news has since followed on from the talks.
References
1. Summit Materials, ‘2020 Annual Report,’ 5
April 2021, https://s1.q4cdn.com/947759825/files/
doc_financials/2021/ar/2021-Proxy-Statement-2020-An-
nual-Report.pdf.
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18. Cementir Holding

Headquarters: Rome, Italy.
RMC production: 4.44Mm3/yr.
Consolidated sales in 2020: US$1.44bn.
ued even more strongly in the first six months of
2021, with first-half ready-mix concrete sales rising
by 31% to 2.52Mm3 from 1.92Mm3 in the first half
of 2020.
The producer launched two new white ultra-
high performance concretes produced with its
FutureCem calcined clay cement during 2020, Aal-
borg Excel and Aalborg Extreme. The company’s
full-year consolidated sales were Euro1.22bn, up by

C ementir Holding operates a 100-plant-strong

ready-mix concrete production network span-
ning Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, France
0.8% year-on-year from Euro1.21bn in 2019.

and Turkey.1 This makes it the first company in the
Global Concrete Top 30 not to produce any concrete
in its own home country. Ready-mix concrete sales
volumes were 4.44Mm3­ in 2020, up by 7.8% year-
on-year from 4.12Mm3 in 2019, but 20% below the
previous high of 4.95Mm3 in 2017. Growth contin-
References
1. Cementir Holding, ‘2020 Annual Report,’ 10 March
2021, https://www.cementirholding.com/sites/default/
files/documenti/2021-05/Cementir%20Holding%20
Annual%20Report%202020.pdf.

19. MDU Resources

Headquarters: Bismarck, US.
RMC production: 3.74Mm3/yr.
Consolidated sales in 2020: US$5.53bn.
During the year, the company acquired two new
ready-mix concrete subsidiaries: McMurry Ready-
Mix and Oldcastle Infrastructure Spokane.
References
1. MDU Resources, ‘Form 10-K,’ 11 February 2021,
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/67716/00
0006771621000007/mdu-20201231.htm#i3ef18d2df1554b
94abe60037ba667031_133.

M DU Resources’ business spans electric, natu-

ral gas distribution, pipeline and construction
materials and contracting. Within this last segment,
it sold 3.74Mm3 of ready-mix concrete in 2020,
down by 0.8% year-on-year from 3.77Mm3 in 2019.1
Its consolidated sales, up by 3.7% from US$5.33bn
in 2019, were US$5.53bn.

Right: Laying a concrete

path in Kiev, Ukraine.
Source: Shutterstock.

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20. UltraTech Cement
Headquarters: Mumbai, India.
RMC production: 3.06Mm3/yr.
Consolidated sales in 2021 financial
year: US$6.04bn.
A ditya Birla subsidiary UltraTech Cement re-
ports its annual results by Indian financial year,
the last of which ended on 31 March 2021. As the
company does not publish a figure for concretes sales
volumes, its 3.06Mm3/yr is an estimate based on its
108 plants.1 The company is India’s leading producer,
ahead of Holcim subsidiary ACC, which produced
2.27Mt of cement at its 80 plants in 2020.2
21. Siam City Cement
Headquarters: Bangkok, Thailand.
RMC production: 2.90Mm3/yr.
Consolidated sales in 2020: US$1.29bn.
22. China West Construction Group
Headquarters: Chengdu, China.
RMC production: 2.84Mm3/yr.
Consolidated sales in 2020: US$2.34bn.
On 10 May 2021, Global Cement Magazine
reported that UltraTech Cement increased its
consolidated sales by 6% year-on-year in its 2021
financial year to US$6.04bn from US$5.7bn in the
2020 financial year. Its profit before interest, depre-
ciation and tax grew by 24% to US$1.68bn from
US$1.35bn.
References
1. UltraTech Cement, ‘Sustainability Snapshot 2020-21,’ 30
July 2021, https://www.ultratechcement.com/content/dam/
ultratechcementwebsite/pdf/sustainability-reports/UltraT-
ech_Cement_Sustainability_Report_FY21.pdf.
2. ACC, ‘Integrated Report 2020,’ 17 February 2021, Below: Construction
https://www.acclimited.com/AnnualReport-2020- underway in Mumbai, India.
21/pdf/acc-annual-report-2021.pdf. Source: Shutterstock.
S iam City Cement’s US$195m ready-mix con-
crete sales in 2020 fell by 22% year-on-year from
US$249m, and correspond to an estimated 2.9Mm3.
References
1. Siam City Cement, ‘Report 2020,’ 11 February 2021,
https://sccc.listedcompany.com/misc/fs/20210211-sccc-
fs-fy2020-en.pdf.
C hina West Construction Group provides the
western Chinese market with ready-mix con-
crete, of which it produced 2.84Mm3 in 2020.
References
1. China West Construction, ‘Summary of 2020 An-
nual Report,’ 2 April 2020, https://cwcg.cscec.com/tzzgx/
dqbg/202104/P020210406571586349589.pdf.
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=22. Vulcan Materials
Headquarters: Birmingham, US.
RMC production: 2.84Mm3/yr.
Consolidated sales in 2020: US$4.86bn.
V ulcan Materials produced 2.84Mm3 of con-
crete in 2020. Its 46-plants ready-mix concrete
operations extend over California, Texas, Virginia,
Maryland and Pennsylvania.1 In 2020, the com-
pany’s ready-mix concrete sales volumes fell by 5%
year-on-year to 2.84Mm3, while the value of its
ready-mix concrete sales fell by 3.3% to US$384m
from US$397m in 2019.
24. Colas Group
Headquarters: Paris, France.
RMC production: 2.6Mm3/yr.
Consolidated sales in 2020: US$16.9bn.
25. Breedon Group
Headquarters: St Helier, Jersey.
RMC production: 2.55Mm3/yr.
Consolidated sales in 2020: US$1.27bn.
B reedon Group serves the UK and Irish national
markets with its network of over 200 ready-mix
concrete plants. Its full-year production fell by 15%
year-on-year to 2.55Mm3 in 2020 from 2.3Mm3 in
2019. Its consolidated revenues also fell, by 0.1% to
US$1.27bn from US$1.28bn.
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News
On 8 June 2021, the group agreed to acquire fellow
US-based ready-mix concrete producer US Con-
crete, Inc.2 The combination of the two companies’
sales volumes in 2020 gives us an estimated com-
bined volume of 10.4Mm3 in 2022. On the basis of
this forecast, we can project Vulcan Materials’ sub-
sequent Global Concrete Top 30 ranking at around
number nine.
References
1. Vulcan Materials, ‘10-K,’ 12 February 2021, https://
sec.report/Document/0001396009-21-000009/.
2. Global Cement, ‘Vulcan to buy US Concrete,’ 8 June
2021, https://www.globalcement.com/news/item/
12510-vulcan-to-buy-us-concrete-for-us-1-29bn.
C olas’ main occupation is roadbuilding. In 2020,
its 192 ready-mix concrete plants turned out
2.6Mm3 of concrete globally.1
References
1. Colas Group, ‘2020 Annual Report,’ 20 April 2021,
https://www.colas.com/sites/default/files//onglets/rap-
port_annuel_eng.pdf.
On 31 July 2020, Breedon Group completed its ac-
quisition of US$244m-worth of Cemex UK’s assets,
including 49 ready-mix concrete plants. It thereby
strengthened its presence in South Wales, Central
Scotland, the North of England and Eastern England
and entered the West Country. The UK Competition
and Markets Authority (CMA) cleared the deal to
proceed on 1 December 2020, after Breedon Group
agreed to divest assets including 10 English ready-
mix concrete plants to Tillicoultry Quarries.
References
1. Breedon Group, ‘Annual Report 2020,’ 17 March 2021,
https://www.breedongroup.com/images/uploads/articles/
Breedon_Group_2020_ARA.pdf.
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26. Al Kifah Building Materials
Headquarters: Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia.
RMC production: 2.50Mm3/yr.
A l Kifah Building Materials produces ready-mix
and precast concrete for the Saudi market.
In 2020, its ready-mix concrete production was
2.50Mm3.
In mid-2021, Al Kifah Building Materials
launched Crete cement-free natural pozzolan
27. GCC
Headquarters: Chihuahua City, Mexico.
RMC production: 2.48Mm3/yr.
Consolidated sales in 2020: US$1.27bn.
G CC (formerly Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua)
sold 2.48Mm­3 of ready-mix concrete in the US
28. Limak Holding
Headquarters: Ankara, Turkey.
RMC production: 2.01Mm3/yr.
29. Çimsa
Headquarters: Istanbul, Turkey.
RMC production: 2.00Mm3/yr.
Consolidated sales in 2020: US$250m.
concrete. It offers increased compressive strength
compared to other concretes produced with alter-
native cementitious materials such a fly ash, while
requiring a lower cementitious material content of
just 20%.
References
Mohammed Rahahleh, Concrete conquers crisis: introduc-
ing Al Kifah Building Material’s natural cement alternative,
Global Cement Magazine July - August 2021, 24 June 2021,
https://www.globalcement.com/pdf/3d/gcjulaug21/?utm_
s o u rc e = n e w s l e t t e r & u t m _ m e d i u m = e m a i l & u t m _
content=560627&utm_campaign=jun21nonsubs
and Mexico in 2020, where it operates 94 ready-mix
concrete plants, and a further 6 precast concrete
plants in Mexico.1 Global Cement reported on 27
January 2021 that its consolidated sales rose by 0.5%
year-on-year to US$939m from US$934m in 2019.
References
1. GCC, ‘Annual Report 2020,’ 30 April 2021, http://cdn.
investorcloud.net/gcc/InformacionFinanciera/Informacio-
nAnual/GCC-Reporte-anual-2020-en.pdf.
L imak Holding’s 28 ready-mix concrete plants
supplied 2.01Mm3 of concrete in Turkey in 2020.1
References
1. Limak Holding, ‘Annual Report 2020,’ 1 April 2021,
http://www.limak.com.tr/files/LimakAnnualReport
2020.pdf.
Ç imsa is primarily a white cement producer and
exporter to 65 countries.1 It sold 2.00Mm3 of
ready-mix concrete in 2020.
References
1. Çimsa, ‘Annual Report 2020,’ 1 April 2021, https://
www.cimsa.com.tr/ca/docs/233E1C84A98E461EB5C654
7C6B0972/BAA5D5811DAB49B4AB02EA3ACB4A4F70.
pdf.
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30. Anhui Conch Group
Headquarters: Wuhu, China.
RMC production: 458,000m3/yr.
Consolidated sales in 2020: US$27bn.
T he final entry in the Global Concrete Top 30 is
Anhui Conch Group, which in 2020 produced
458,000m3 of ready-mixed concrete. Its ready-mixed
concrete sales more than doubled year-on-year
to US$32.5m from US$10.9m in 2019.1 In total,
Anhui Conch Group’s ready-mix concrete capac-
ity was 4.20Mm3 at 31 December 2020, up by 40%
Conclusion
A mong the commodities necessary to global
civilisation, concrete is - like water - irreplace-
able. Through a year in which resilient economies
went into recession and other industries stopped
altogether, most of the concrete companies named
above recorded growth. Those which did not were
back in growth mode by the first half of 2021.
Global concrete production can change im-
mensely from one year to the next; so too can the
names involved. Some, such as US Concrete, Inc.,
will drop out of the Top 30 in the next edition. This
will move Martin Marietta into the top 10 for the first
time. Meanwhile in India, JSW Cement commis-
sioned its first commercial ready-mix concrete plant
at Chembur in Mumbai, India, on 22 June 2021 and
now has an approximate capacity of 526,000m3/yr.1
Right: A ready-mix concrete
truck on the road in Russia.
Source: Shutterstock.
33 Global Concrete Report 2021
from 3Mm3 at the start of the year. It contributed
US$7.73m towards the establishment of Nantong
Conch Concrete, jointly with Haimen South Huang-
hai Construction Development. The group’s full-year
consolidated sales rose by 12% to US$27.0bn from
US$24.0bn.2
References
1. Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited, ‘2020 Annual
Report,’. 8 March 2021, http://iis.quamnet.com/media/IR-
Announcement/914/EN_US/9719216-0.PDF.
2. Global Cement, ‘Anhui Conch Cement records sales
and profit growth in 2020,’ 8 March 2021, https://www.
globalcement.com/news/item/12099-anhui-conch-
cement-records-sales-and-profit-growth-in-2020.
The producers above encapsulate the full range
of ready-mix concrete volumes from more than
100Mm3/yr to less than 1Mm3/yr. One trend is that
they are bunched in places - for example the US-
based producers below 8Mm3 - due to the strictures
of national competition laws. Companies from
countries such as India, where there is massive ca-
pacity for consolidation, can be expected to realise
greater representation in subsequent editions of this
report as they rapidly overtake national producers ‘at
capacity’ in their respective jurisdictions.
References
1. Global Cement, ‘JSW Cement enters the concrete busi-
ness,’ 22 June 2021, https://www.globalcement.com/news/
item/12585-jsw-cement-enters-the-concrete-business-
with-first-ready-mixed-concrete-plant-in-mumbai.
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