LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION SERVICES HELP CEMENT LAFARGEHOLCIM MERGER

Landscape transformation services help cement LafargeHolcim merger

"Through hard work, professionalism and lots of team effort, we carved out the divested business".

LafargeHolcim merger: interview with Kathy McLeod

 


The EPI-USE Labs team rose to the challenge and leveraged offshore resources to ensure development continued around the clock!


Kathy McLeod, LafargeHolcim’s Head of Applications and Design

LAFARGEHOLCIM: AN OVERVIEW

LafargeHolcim is the leading global construction materials and solutions company serving masons, builders, architects and engineers all over the world. With a presence in 80 countries, the most innovative cement, concrete, and aggregates solutions to meet their customers’ needs, and a commitment to health, safety, and sustainability, LafargeHolcim has the assets necessary to address today's global challenges.

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  • Founded in 2015 following the merger of Lafarge and Holcim
  • Presence in 80 countries
  • 80,000 employees
  • CHF 26.9 billion in net sales
  • 3 mt of installed capacity worldwide
  • 2,300 plants (including over 1,400 in ready mix concrete, over 600 in aggregates and over 200 in cement and grinding plants)
  • Solutions and services: cement, concrete, and aggregate solutions for the following businesses: buildings, infrastructure, distribution, oil and gas, affordable housing and construction systems

IN BRIEF: A SUCCESSFUL MERGER

 

In 2014, Holcim and Lafarge, two independent companies in the building materials industry, announced a merger. With a combined market value exceeding $50 billion, their merger was the second largest announced in 2014 worldwide. Since a merger of this scale would raise regulatory concerns, Holcim decided to divest part of its business, accounting for 10 to 15% of the company’s EBITDA.

For this complex and large-scale divestiture project, Holcim contacted EPI-USE Labs. In the course of only three months and one week, Holcim and EPI-USE Labs successfully divested the Canadian business, along with selected US terminals and a US plant into a completely isolated environment. This was achieved with no production system downtime, by leveraging Holcim’s Disaster Recovery infrastructure.

Despite significant changes during the project, EPI-USE Labs easily re-configured its products to adjust to the new requirements. Close collaboration between EPI-USE Labs and Holcim’s functional specialists ensured that the requirements were feasible and modelled correctly.

By successfully achieving the divestment deadline, Holcim could proceed with the merger with Lafarge.

A SUCCESSFUL MERGER

The full LAFARGEHOLCIM Success Story

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The EPI-USE Labs team worked closely with our Project team to understand the requirements, propose options, offer guidance and highlight the risks. All parties understood it was a very aggressive timeline and we mitigated the risk by having multiple on-site workshops to ensure a common understanding of all key decisions. I was certainly in daily communication as we navigated through the critical phases.


Kathy McLeod, LafargeHolcim’s Head of Applications and Design

 

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