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About PPC - Corporate Profile

Pretoria Portland Cement Company Limited (PPC) established the first cement plant in South Africa in 1892 and listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1910.

PPC is the leading supplier of cement in Southern Africa, with eight manufacturing facilities and three milling depots in South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe. These facilities are capable of producing more than seven million tons of cement products each year.

The company has a distribution network that is responsible for supplying quality branded cement to the building and construction industry, concrete product manufacturers, hardware stores and DIY centres.

PPC is the market leader in South Africa with a product range that encompasses all applications and a technical services team that is on hand to provide industry solutions.
PPC is committed to excellence in satisfying customers' needs and strives for total quality
in everything it does.

Related products sold include aggregates from the company's Gauteng quarries at Mooiplaas and Laezonia, and in Botswana.

PPC Lime is the leading supplier of metallurgical-grade lime, burnt dolomite, limestone and related products in southern Africa. It operates one of the largest lime plants in the world at Lime Acres in the Northern Cape, South Africa.


Business Objectives

Economic

Ensure cash flow returns that allow for continued reinvestment in and replacement of
cement capacity

Continuously explore ways to reduce costs and improve efficiency of operations


Environmental

Rehabilitate and obtain closure certificates for all worked-out mining areas

Meet all legislated emission level requirements and further reduce emissions

Reduce non-renewable resource requirements by increasing the level of extenders in the
final product

 

Operational

Reduce energy cost by using substitute fuels

Increase manufacturing capacity to meet the country's needs


Social

Assist with the upliftment of disadvantaged communities by using resources
from the communities in which PPC operates

Skills transfer in disadvantaged communities for sustainable empowerment

Continue to progress with BEE equity and board participation as foreseen in
BBBEE and MPRD Acts.


Our Values Our Strategy

We believe in satisfying our customers' needs

We supply quality products and services

We respect the individual

We provide a non-discriminatory, healthy, safe and challenging work environment

We are committed to improving the quality of life for our people

We strive for security

We care for the environment and the communities in which we operate

We act professionally

 

Focus on core businesses

Generate superior cash flow returns

Achieve global competitiveness

Develop globally competitive people

Practice sound corporate, environmental and social governance and
build on our strengths through synergistic growth

   
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