23 Amazing Stats and Facts About Cemex

1. About Cemex

Cemex, or CEMEX S.A.B. de C.V., is a Mexico-based multinational building materials company headquartered in San Pedro.

2. Founded on 1906

3. Founder: Lorenzo Zambrano Gutierrez

4. Website: www.cemex.com

5. Company type: Sociedad Anónima Bursátil de Capital Variable

6. Industry: Construction or Building materials

7. Headquarters: San Pedro Garza García, Monterrey, Mexico

8. Operates in: Mexico; The United States; Europe; South, and Central America, and the Caribbean (SCA&C); Asia, The Middle East and Africa (AMEA); and Others.

9. Chairman and CEO: Rogelio Zambrano Lozano(chairman), Fernando A. Gonzalez (CEO).

10. Total Employees: 46,206

11. Products: Cement, ready-mix concrete, and construction aggregates.

12. Production Capacity: 89M tons of Cement (as of Dec 31, 2021)

13. Annual sales of US$14.5 billion and EBITDA of US$2.9 billion in 2021.

14. With the purchase of three plants from Cementos Guadalajara, the company became Mexico’s largest cement producer in 1976. 

15. It has a total of 16 subsidiaries in various countries.

16. In 1906, CEMEX was founded with the opening of Cementos Hidalgo. In 1920, Cementos Portland Monterrey began operations, and in 1931, Cementos Mexicanos, now CEMEX, merged with the former.

17. A record-breaking $750 million was reported in February 2018 for all of 2016, the highest amount in a decade.

18. It was the 5th largest cement company (by the amount of cement produced) in 2020, with 87.09 million tonnes.

19. Cemex was ranked the 1178th largest company in the world by Forbes Global 2000 in 2021.

20. CEMEX ranked 39th in Fortune Magazine’s 2020 Change the World Index.

21. Awards: For their innovative and efficient use of information technology, CEMEX received the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award in 2004.

22. Competitors:       

• Holcim
• HeidelbergCement
• Votorantim Cimentos
• Unibeton Ready Mix

23. Social Responsibility:

• The company instituted the Premio CEMEX, an annual award to recognize work in sustainability, accessibility, construction, and architecture.
• It funds the Catedra Blanca and honors architecture courses in three universities: the ITESM, in Monterrey, the Universidad Iberoamericana, in Mexico City, and the Barcelona School of Architecture.
• In order to create sustainable communities across Mexico, CEMEX created the Centro CEMEX-Tecnológico de Monterrey.
• In 2007, the Organization of American States (OAS), awarded Cemex with The Corporate Citizen of the Americas Award 2007, for the social benefits of their program “Patrimonio Hoy”, in Mexico