About us:

Lafarge is a world leader in building materials, with top-ranking positions in its Cement, Aggregates & Concrete businesses, located in 64 countries with 65,000 employees and over 1570 production sites across the world. In 2012, Lafarge posted sales of 15.8 billion euros. Lafarge posted sales of 15.8 billion euros. Since 2010, the Lafarge Group has been part of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, the first global sustainability benchmark, in recognition of its sustainable development actions.

In recent years, Lafarge India has significantly enlarged its operations across its three business divisions - Cement, Aggregates and Concrete. Lafarge currently has cement plants in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Rajasthan and is one of the leading players in the ready-mix concrete business with around 84 plants across the country. Lafarge has 2 aggregates mines/ crusher one each at Badlapur (Maharasthra) and Kotputli (Rajasthan).

Lafarge India is one of the leading players in the cement industry in Eastern and Central India, with its leading brands - Concreto and Duraguard and Aadhar a low cost binder, a common housing solution for people with limited means. Lafarge Readymix concrete offers Mega series, Artevia and Hydromedia.  Lafarge also partners with local developers to provide solutions making various stages of construction simpler, faster and affordable.

Lafarge India has been committed to sustainable development for many years, pursuing a strategy that combines industrial know-how with performance, value creation, respect for employees and local cultures, environmental protection and the conservation of natural resources and energy. To make advances in building materials, Lafarge India places the customer at the heart of its concerns. It offers the construction industry and its customer’s innovative solutions bringing greater safety, comfort and quality to their everyday surroundings. The Construction Development Lab in Mumbai, developed in early 2012, is undertaking research and development activities specific for the Indian market and Indian construction conditions. Safety is the cornerstone of the Company’s performance culture and long-standing people-centric tradition. All Lafarge India plants have an innate culture of safety consciousness and assured best-in-class Health & Safety standards. 

History:

The story of the world leader in building materials began in 1833 in the Ardèche region, at a place called “Lafarge”, which means “the forge”, near the village of Teil. In 1864 Lafarge won the first major project: the Suez canal in Egypt. 200,000 tons of hydraulic lime, delivered in wooden barrels, were needed to build the piers of the Suez canal. Although its production capacity was limited to just 20 kilns, which produced 50,000 tons per year, Lafarge rose to the challenge. The canal will be inaugurated on November 17th, 1869, and connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.

Lafarge opened a research laboratory near Teil, France in 1887. This laboratory was the first in the world to specialize in cement. 

In 2000 Lafarge and the WWF, the world’s largest environmental protection organization, signed a 5-year agreement as part of the “Conservation Partner” program. A world first and the Group made its first appearance on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, a global index that ranks the companies that are most advanced in terms of sustainable development.