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Lafarge Africa Plc is an industrial company headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, and listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. It is majorly controlled by the Holcim Group . Previously trading under the name of Lafarge Wapco Plc, the merger of Lafarge and Holcim and resulting consolidation of Lafarge's assets in Nigeria and South Africa resulted in ...
Holcim Group operates in around seventy countries, and focuses on cement, aggregates, ready mix and solutions [buzzword] & products. It is a global partner for major infrastructure projects – roads, mines, ports, dams, data centers, stadiums, wind farms, or electric power plants that require major investments.
Lafarge is a French industrial company specialising in cement, construction aggregates, and concrete. It is the world's largest cement manufacturer. It was founded in 1833 by Joseph-Auguste Pavin de Lafarge and is a part of the Holcim Group. In 2015, Lafarge merged with Holcim and a new company was formed under the name of LafargeHolcim. It was ...
Prospecton is situated approximately 19 kilometres (12 mi) south-west of the Durban CBD, bordered by the defunct Durban International Airport to the north, Isipingo Beach to the east, Athlone Park to the south, Lotus Park to the south-west and Isipingo Rail to the west. It forms part of the South Durban Basin, a heavily industrialised region ...
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa that is divided, for local government purposes, into one metropolitan municipality (the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality) and ten district municipalities.
In February 2015, Lafarge announced it had reached an agreement to sell the company to CRH plc, with the exception of its Cauldon cement plant. [12] Anglo American sold its 50% stake to Lafarge first, [13] for £992 million ($1.55 billion), [14] in order to allow CRH to buy the complete business. CRH completed the purchase in August 2015.
In 2021 the majority shareholders of Lafarge Zambia Plc (Pan African Cement Co. Ltd. and Financier Lafarge) sold their 75% in the Company to Huaxin (Hainan) Investment Co. Ltd., a company owned by Huaxin Cement Co. Ltd. (Huaxin), leading to the change of trading name of Lafarge Zambia Plc to Chilanga Cement Plc.
The company was founded in 1981 as a trading enterprise, importing sugar, cement, rice, fisheries, and other consumer goods for distribution in the Nigeria market. [3] The group moved into manufacturing in the 1990s, starting with textiles, moving onto flour milling, salt processing and sugar refining by the end of the decade.