- Buzzi Unicem
Buzzi Unicem S.p.A. (ISE|IT0001347308|BZU) is an Italian company, quoted on the
Borsa Italiana , which producescement ,ready-mix concrete andconstruction aggregate s. Its headquarters are in the town ofCasale Monferrato which was once known as the Italian ‘cement capital’. Today it has subsidiaries, interests and operations in Italy,Luxembourg ,Germany andEastern Europe as well as inNorth America .The company was formed in September 1999 when Buzzi Cementi (founded as Fratelli Buzzi SpA in
Trino Vercellese by the brothers Pietro and Antonio Buzzi in 1907) took over Unicem (founded as Cementi Marchino in Casale by Luigi Marchino in 1878), and took on the name of Buzzi Unicem.In 2004 the group acquired control of the German cement company Dyckerhoff (founded as Portland-Cement-Fabrik Dyckerhoff & Söhne in
Amöneburg by Wilhelm Gustav Dyckerhoff and his sons in 1864).The current Chairman is Sandro Buzzi; Chief Executives are Pietro Buzzi (Corporate Finance) and Michele Buzzi (Operations management).
References and further reading
* [http://www.buzziunicem.it/online/BuzziUnicem/en/Home.html Buzzi Unicem] , corporate website.
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