Carmeuse

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Carmeuse
Company typePrivate
IndustryMining Company
Founded1860
Headquarters Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Key people
Sébastien Dossogne (Chief Executive Officer)
Products High calcium lime, High dolomitic lime, calcium hydroxide and limestone
Revenue€1.8 billion (2022)
Number of employees
5,300
Website 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.

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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, Bosnia and Turkey and North America into the United States and Canada and also in Africa and Asia.

Activity

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:

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Carmeuse quarry

News

October 2007 – In a friendly deal with its partner, the Carmeuse Group takes over the control of Ozture Kimtas in Turkey

October 2007 – Carmeuse has been selected as the winning bidder for Oglebay Norton

September 2016 – Carmeuse signs its entry into South East Asia

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