Titan America is a heavyweight in the US construction materials market. The company is a supplier of cement and other building materials, including concrete blocks, ready-mix concrete, and aggregates. The firm is the US arm of Greece-based Titan Cement and has operations along the East Coast and South. Titan American includes companies such as Essex Cement (cement storage and logistics), Roanoke Cement (portland and masonry cement), Separation Technologies (fly-ash processing), Tarmac America (ready-mix concrete, concrete blocks, and sand), and Titan Virginia Ready-Mix (ready-mix concrete). Titan Florida Cement and Aggregates produces cement near Miami.

Titan Cement Company was founded in 1902. Titan Cement is a towering presence in the cement industry. The company also makes ready-mix concrete, fly ash, concrete blocks, dry mortars, aggregates, and other construction materials. It has operations in a dozen counties in Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Operating through joint ventures and wholly owned affiliates, Titan Cement annually produces some 16 million tons of cement at 10 plants; approximately 20 million tons of aggregates from about 15 quarries; and about 6 million cubic meters of ready-mix concrete at more than 130 facilities.

Tong Yang Major has acquired such companies as Sewoon Corp. and Hanil Synthetic Fiber. It also majority owns Tong Yang Cement, formerly a joint venture with France's Lafarge, one of the largest cement companies in the world. Tong Yang Major pours its heart into its cement. The construction company makes and sells cement and ready-mixed concrete and uses those materials to build luxury apartments, offices, industrial plants, and dams. In addition to more than 30 manufacturing factories in South Korea, Tong Yang Major Corporation runs a research and development facility, where it focuses on designing concrete that is water-tight, crack- and slump-resistant, and suited to handle harsh weather conditions.

U.S. Silica is a leading producer of high quality unground silica sand, ground and fine ground silica, calcined kaolin clay and aplite, and a visionary company with a history dating back over 100 years, making us one of the oldest in the industry. Henry Harrison Hunter first discovered the Oriskany sandstone deposit just north of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia and mined and processed his first sample by hand. Hunter entered a sample of this sand in the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and was awarded a blue ribbon and the medal of excellence.Since 1893 U.S. Silica has acquired many properties, developed over 200 unique products and created a network of production plants and packaging facilities across the country, making procurement of the silica sand, ground and fine ground silica and other industrial minerals you need convenient and reliable. U.S. Silica is built on a foundation of stability with the keys to our longevity rooted in our ability to collaborate with our customers to find new and innovative ways to use our products, while maintaining our dedication to health, safety, quality, and integrity in the workplace and the environment.

U.S. Concrete produces ready-mixed concrete, precast concrete, and other related materials and services used for commercial, residential, and infrastructure construction projects. U.S. Concrete has a fleet of 1,000 mixer trucks and about 450 ready-mixed concrete, concrete block, and aggregate plants. The company produces more than 6 million cubic yards of ready-mix and 3 million tons of aggregate each year, with ready-mixed concrete accounting for about 90% of the company's sales. It concentrates on serving major markets, including California, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Texas. U.S. Concrete filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2010.

Ube-Mitsubishi Cement is Japan's second largest supplier of cement and a joint venture between leading Japanese materials producer Mitsubishi Materials and diversified chemical, metals, and machinery provider Ube Industries. The company markets cement and related products manufactured by its parent companies. It primarily serves customers in the construction and industrial markets. Ube-Mitsubishi also operates a cement research institute in Tokyo. In an effort to break into the potentially lucrative Russian cement market, Ube-Mitsubishi Cement began exporting cement products there in 2008 -- a first for a Japanese company.

Vianini Industria is controlled by the Caltagirone family, primarily through diversified holding company Caltagirone. Vianini Industria's workers could proudly proclaim "We came, we saw, we concrete." The construction company operates primarily in Italy, creating cement products including pipes and pylons for such infrastructure and public projects as railroads, utilities, and university facilities. In addition to its core Italian business, it has operations in other Europen countries and in Africa, Asia/Pacific, and the US. The group's list of clients has included rail company Ferrovie dello Stato and electric utility Enel.

Joseph Vicat, whose father invented a method of creating artificial cement, founded Vicat in 1853. The Vicat family continues to lead the company. Vicat's objectives are set in stone. The company produces some 21 million tons of cement and aggregates and 10 million cubic meters of concrete per year. Vicat operates about a dozen cement plants and grinding plants, more than 200 concrete plants, and 70 quarries in Europe, Africa, the US, and the Middle East. It also has operations in specialty chemicals and paper manufacturing, transportation, and precast concrete. More than half of Vicat's revenues come from outside of France. In 2010 Vicat expanded into India with plans to acquire 51% of Bharathi Cement.

Founded in 1819 in Vienna and traded since 1869 on the Vienna Stock Exchange, Wienerberger can look back on a great tradition. Only in 1986 the company started its dynamic expansion, which has focused on building materials since the introduction of Value Management in 1997. This transformed Wienerberger from a local Austrian brick-maker into the world’s largest producer of bricks within a few years. During this time the number of production facilities rose from 11 to a level of 229 plants in 27 countries.The construction industry was hard hit by the worldwide recession in 2009, which triggered a sharp drop in the demand for building materials. On the one hand, new residential construction is heavily dependent on bank financing and, on the other hand, consumers tend to postpone investment decisions as a reaction to the weak economy and uncertain expectations for the future. Wienerberger implemented a wide-ranging action plan to adjust capacity to reflect these developments, which also included active working capital management to reduce inventories, a decrease in administrative and selling costs and a cutback in investments to the necessary minimum.

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