HeidelbergCement is a company with a long tradition. It has come a long way from the foundation of the first cement plant in Heidelberg in 1873 to one of the leading international building materials group today. HeidelbergCement is a model of German management culture known all over the world for its reliability, efficiency and high quality.
HeidelbergCement Group is the biggest investor in the building sector of Eastern Europe since 1989. It has a leading market position in the majority of the Eastern European countries like Bosnia, Estonia, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Hungary. In Eastern Europe the Group sees a favorable economic situation, bringing the surplus profit to construction business.
In Russia, HeidelbergCement operates a cement plant “Cesla” in Slantsy, Leningrad region, an aggregates and precast production site “Gurovo–Beton” in Novogurivskiy, Tula oblast, and cement terminals in Kaliningrad and Murmansk. In Tula oblast, the company is currently building a new cement plant with an annual capacity of 2 million tons.
By having opened 2 offices in Moscow and Podolsk, HeidelbergCement is now able to successfully run its activities on the fast-growing and highly-profitable market.
HeidelbergCement shares with Russian cement producers its rich experience and introduces to them its innovative technologies. The company has a leading position in the area of modern technology and environment protection.
The Group has great business perspectives in the region of Central Asia. It plans to build a new cement plant in West Kazakhstan, at the shore of the Caspian sea, which together with the plants from Georgia and Russia will form a very well functioning net of enterprises.