The document summarizes the history and operations of Lhoist, a world leading producer of lime, dolime, and minerals. It traces the company's roots back to 1889 when its first factory opened in Belgium. Over 130 years it has expanded internationally, including to the US in the 1980s, Western/Eastern Europe in the 90s, and more recently to Southern Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Today it operates globally and focuses on developing innovative products and solutions to meet existing and emerging customer needs. The company emphasizes sustainability and aims to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2030.
The document summarizes the history and operations of Lhoist, a world leading producer of lime, dolime, and minerals. It traces the company's roots back to 1889 when its first factory opened in Belgium. Over 130 years it has expanded internationally, including to the US in the 1980s, Western/Eastern Europe in the 90s, and more recently to Southern Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Today it operates globally and focuses on developing innovative products and solutions to meet existing and emerging customer needs. The company emphasizes sustainability and aims to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2030.
The document summarizes the history and operations of Lhoist, a world leading producer of lime, dolime, and minerals. It traces the company's roots back to 1889 when its first factory opened in Belgium. Over 130 years it has expanded internationally, including to the US in the 1980s, Western/Eastern Europe in the 90s, and more recently to Southern Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Today it operates globally and focuses on developing innovative products and solutions to meet existing and emerging customer needs. The company emphasizes sustainability and aims to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2030.
The document summarizes the history and operations of Lhoist, a world leading producer of lime, dolime, and minerals. It traces the company's roots back to 1889 when its first factory opened in Belgium. Over 130 years it has expanded internationally, including to the US in the 1980s, Western/Eastern Europe in the 90s, and more recently to Southern Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Today it operates globally and focuses on developing innovative products and solutions to meet existing and emerging customer needs. The company emphasizes sustainability and aims to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2030.
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130+ YEARS
Our roots 22 80 Our roots date back to the 19th century when in 1889 Hippolyte Dumont opened a factory in Belgium. In just over a century, our family owned company spread internationally: first to France in 1926 on the impetus of the founder’s son-in-law, Léon Lhoist.
135 During decades, the fourth generation of shareholders consistently pushed the business further under the leadership of Baron Berghmans, the company’s current Chairman. In the eighties, the Group crossed the Atlantic to the United States. The nineties offered significant development opportunities across Western and Eastern Europe, in Germany and Scandinavia. Our horizons broadened even more in the new millenium with expansion in Southern Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Respect, Integrity, Courage Our values are at the heart of our culture and constitute the basis for everything we Minerals: Limestone, Dolomite, Clay and others do. They have enabled us to reach the top of our industry and are the key to help us Calcined products: Quicklime (pebble, ground, milled), maintaining this position in the long term. Burnt dolomite (soft-/hard-/over-burnt), Hydrated lime Today Specialty products: Milk of lime, Fluidised lime, We are a world leading producer of lime, Low dust emission lime, High porosity hydrated lime, dolime and minerals. We continue to grow, Formulated products with a focus on existing and emerging customer needs, we invest in new facilities and in the development of innovative products and solutions.
www.lhoist.com A long-term vision
% 41 Safety First We put people and our planet’s needs at the forefront of At Lhoist, safety and what we do. In close partnership with our customers, health are embedded in suppliers, and stakeholders, we always question how we can add value and make a positive difference to people’s our core values. While lives, and the planet at large. our reserves and facilities represent significant Our products and their various applications provide purity and efficiency and contribute to improve our world, life and assets, our most important society. Our limestone and lime-based products enable resource is our people. solutions that are essential to a wide range of processes, and benefit all of us in our daily life.
16% Others 28% People matter Our employees’ ongoing efforts to innovate and seek out new 6337 34 , 3% 7% Paper Steel
2.5 bn € opportunities as well and pulp Solutions for the future as their achievements, We place significant emphasis on the development of have brought our global success and growth. truly sustainable products, processes and services to 8% Agriculture meet our clients’ current and future needs supporting our organic growth. 8% 13% Building Flue gas treatment
9% 11% We responsibly optimize resources and energy for Water Roads and civil works generations to come using less, longer and smarter. Our ambition is to reduce specific carbon emissions from fuel combustion by
-50% 2% Asia 8% Latin America by 2030 compared to 2018.
