CEMEX SAB DE CV

Overview

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. is a global building-materials company serving the construction sector. Its core business includes producing and supplying cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, and urbanization solutions for residential, commercial, and infrastructure construction.[1]

The company serves customers in more than 50 countries and trades cementitious and other materials in more than 65 countries.[2][3] In 2025, CEMEX reported revenue of $16.132 billion and 43,797 employees.[4][5] Its stated purpose is to address construction challenges with sustainable, innovative solutions that help build a better future.[6] [1]+8

Products & services

CEMEX’s principal products are cement, ready-mix concrete, and aggregates. Its gray Ordinary Portland Cement typically contains 90–95% clinker and up to 5% minor components; blended Portland cement generally has a clinker factor below 90%. Cement is sold in bags or in bulk and is also used with aggregates and water to produce concrete.[7]

CEMEX offers tailored concrete mixes with adjustable fluidity, strength, strength-development speed, and workability retention. Named specialty products include Promptis, Resilia, Pervia, Insularis, and Evolution; described applications include rapid-hardening, crack-resistant, self-consolidating, architectural, pervious, antibacterial, lightweight, and insulating concrete. In Mexico, cement and mortar brands include Tolteca, Monterrey, Maya, Anahuac, Campana, Gallo, and Centenario; Multiplast is a coatings brand, and Antihumedad is a water-repellent grey Portland cement intended to inhibit moisture filtration.[8][9]

Vertua is CEMEX’s low-carbon product brand. The company reported that Vertua Lower Carbon products represented 63% of cement sales and 56% of ready-mix sales in 2025; these figures are not identified as shares of revenue.[10][11] Services include custom mix design and CEMEX Go digital tools for ordering, order management, shipment tracking, invoicing, and payments.[12][13] [7]+6

Geographic presence

CEMEX reports its operations in five geographic segments: Mexico; the United States; Europe; Middle East and Africa; and South, Central America and the Caribbean (SCA&C). Its reported European markets include the UK, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, the Czech Republic and Croatia; Middle East and Africa includes Israel, Egypt and the UAE; and SCA&C includes Colombia, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Jamaica and the Caribbean.[14]

For 2025, Mexico accounted for 27% of external revenue, Europe 24%, and SCA&C 7%. The company reported consolidated external revenue of $16.132 billion; the cited disclosures do not provide comparable revenue shares for the United States or Middle East and Africa.[15]+3

In Europe, as of December 31, 2025, CEMEX reported 14 cement plants, 67 cement terminals, 29 deep-water import terminals, 498 ready-mix plants, 119 aggregate quarries and two concrete-block facilities. These counts include temporarily inactive facilities where indicated in the report.[19] [14]+5

Business segments

Cemex’s 2025 reportable segments are geographic, following a realignment to reflect how management reviews performance and allocates resources. Their shares below are approximate portions of 2025 consolidated external revenue of $16.132 billion: United States, $5.001 billion (31.0%); Mexico, $4.282 billion (26.5%); Europe, $3.797 billion (23.5%); Middle East and Africa, $1.299 billion (8.1%); and South, Central America and the Caribbean (SCA&C), $1.112 billion (6.9%).[14][20] The five segments together contributed about 96.0% of consolidated external revenue; “Other activities” accounted for the remaining $641 million, or about 4.0%, and is not a reportable segment.[20]

The segment focus is geographic: Europe includes the UK, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, Czech Republic and Croatia; Middle East and Africa includes Israel, Egypt and the UAE; and SCA&C includes Colombia, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Jamaica and the Caribbean.[14] Cemex also discusses cement, ready-mix concrete and aggregates as product categories, but these are not the basis of its 2025 reportable segment breakdown.[21][22] The figures are from the 2025 Form 20-F, covering the year ended December 31, 2025.[23] [14]+10

Company history

CEMEX began doing business in 1906 and was registered in Monterrey, Mexico, on June 11, 1920. It adopted the name Cementos Mexicanos, S.A. in 1931.[24] The company went public on the Mexican Stock Exchange in 1976, then expanded its position in Mexico through the acquisitions of Cementos Anáhuac in 1987 and Tolteca in 1989.[25]

CEMEX began a major international expansion in the late 1980s.[26] It completed its merger with U.S. cement producer Southdown in 2000, acquired RMC in 2005, and gained control of Australian building-materials company Rinker in 2007—milestones that broadened its geographic reach and building-materials business.[27]+2 [24]+4

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