Carmeuse

Carmeuse

Infobox Company
company_name = Carmeuse Group
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = 1860
location = Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
key_people = Axel Miller (Chairman of the board), Rodolphe Collinet (Chief Executive Officer)
industry = Chemicals
products = High calcium lime, High dolomitic lime, calcium hydroxide and limestone
revenue = €950 million(2007)
num_employees= 5,000
homepage = http://www.carmeuse.com/

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

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 and Turkey and North America into the United States and Canada and also in Africa into Ghana.

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 millions Euros in 2005
* 940 millions Euros in 2006.
* 950 millions Euros in 2007.

News

Oct 2007 - [http://www.carmeuse.com/news.asp?idLayout=31&cid=28&lcid=55 In a friendly deal with its partner, the Carmeuse Group takes over the control of Ozture Kimtas in Turkey]

Oct 2007 - [http://www.carmeuse.com/news.asp?idLayout=31&cid=27&lcid=55 Carmeuse has been selected as the winning bidder for Oglebay Norton]

ource

* [http://www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSBNG20520120071012 Carmeuse to buy Oglebay Norton] (Reuters)
* [http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/071012/nyf024.html?.v=101 Carmeuse to Acquire Oglebay Norton for $36.00 Per Share In Cash] (Yahoo Biz)
* [http://gov.wallonie.be/code/fr/comm_detail.asp?Primary_Key=1514 Carmeuse] (French)

External links

* [http://www.carmeuse.com/ Carmeuse Group website]
* [http://www.carmeusena.com Carmeuse North America website]


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