BACKGROUND

Lafarge Malaysia Berhad (formerly known as Lafarge Malayan Cement Berhad) is the leader in the Malaysian construction materials industry.  Incorporated in 1950, its first cement plant was built in Rawang in 1953. Lafarge Malaysia Berhad (LMB) is today the parent of a group of companies in Malaysia and Singapore whose core businesses are in the manufacturing and sale of cement, ready-mixed concrete and other related building materials.

In the Cement business, LMB currently employs more than 1,150 people and operates a nationwide network of facilities, which includes three integrated cement plants in Langkawi, Kedah; Kanthan, Perak and Rawang, Selangor, a grinding plant in Pasir Gudang, Johor with distribution channels by road, rail and sea.

It employs about 90 people in its Aggregates business and operates six quarries in Malaysia.

Whereas in its Concrete business, there are more than 30 ready-mixed batching plants throughout Peninsular Malaysia with a workforce of more than 300 employees.

A world leader in building materials, Lafarge employs 64,000 people in 62 countries, and posted sales of €15.2 billion in 2013. As a top-ranking player in its Cement, Aggregates and Concrete businesses, it contributes to the construction of cities around the world, through its innovative solutions providing them with more housing and making them more compact, more durable, more beautiful, and better connected. With the world's leading building materials research facility, Lafarge places innovation at the heart of its priorities in order to contribute to more sustainable construction and to better serve architectural creativity.