Around 51,000 women and men work for Heidelberg Materials worldwide. Their achievements make us one of the leading companies in our sector. That’s why it is crucial to provide them with attractive working conditions. As a manufacturing company, we also attach particular importance to occupational safety and the protection of our employees’ health.
Society and Corporate Responsibility
It is important to us that people in the areas surrounding our approximately 3,000 locations worldwide are involved in our business activity and benefit from our products as well as the jobs that we create. Our economic performance allows us to generate added value for local communities. In line with our principle “think global – act local”, we also take measures that protect the environment and promote social progress.
Used cement bags from Heidelberg Materials' subsidiary Leocem in Sierra Leone and traditional African fabrics are being redesigned into fashionable carrier bags – the eye-catcher of the season! The bags are waterproof and tear-resistant and can carry heavy loads. They are also an excellent example of upcycling.
People who come to one of our plants for the first time are often overwhelmed by the multitude of activity. There are heavy machines operating in the quarry, whose wheels alone are twice your height; the rotary kiln, in which limestone is burned at over 1000 degrees Celsius, causing you break out in a sweat even from a safe distance; the mixing plants, with so many cubic metres of concrete being mixed that no bakery in the world could compare; and, amidst of all this, our fleet of green trucks that deliver our products to their final destinations. It gets clear very quickly: Here is a lot of action taking place!