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  2. Cemex - Wikipedia

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    www.cemex.com. CEMEX S.A.B. de C.V., known as Cemex, is a Mexican multinational building materials company headquartered in San Pedro, near Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. It manufactures and distributes cement, ready-mix concrete and aggregates in more than 50 countries. In 2020 it was ranked as the 5th largest cement company (by amount of ...

  3. Lorenzo Zambrano - Wikipedia

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    Lorenzo Hormisdas Zambrano Treviño (27 March 1944 – 12 May 2014) was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist. He took over Cemex, a regional cement company founded by his grandfather, and transformed it into one of the largest cement producers in the world by the time of his death. [3] Zambrano also financed several cultural initiatives ...

  4. Rinker Group - Wikipedia

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    Number of employees. 14,000 (2003) Website. (Formerly) www.rinker.com.au. The Rinker Group was an Australian -headquartered multinational building products company. Before its acquisition by Cemex, it was listed on both the Australian Securities Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange . The business was on-sold by Cemex to Holcim in 2009 and ...

  5. Grupo Argos - Wikipedia

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    www.grupoargos.com. Grupo Argos S.A is a Colombian conglomerate with large investments in the cement and energy industries. Its cement company Argos has operations in Colombia, the United States, Panamá, Honduras and the Caribbean. Celsia, its energy company, owns hydro, thermal, and wind power generation plants in Colombia, Panamá, and Costa ...

  6. Chemex Coffeemaker - Wikipedia

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    Chemex Coffeemaker; designer: Peter Schlumbohm, 1941; Brooklyn Museum. The Chemex Coffeemaker is a manual pour-over style glass coffeemaker, invented by Peter Schlumbohm in 1941, manufactured by the Chemex Corporation in Chicopee, Massachusetts . In 1958, designers at the Illinois Institute of Technology selected the Chemex Coffeemaker as "one ...

  7. Heidelberg Materials - Wikipedia

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    Heidelberg Materials. Heidelberg Materials is a German multinational building materials company headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. Formerly known as HeidelbergCement AG, the company has rebranded as Heidelberg Materials in September 2022. [5] It is a DAX corporation and stands as one of the world's largest building materials companies.

  8. Pemex - Wikipedia

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    Pemex is Latin America's second-largest company measured by revenues, according to a ranking of the region's 500 largest companies by Latin Business Chronicle, behind Brazilian oil company Petrobras. In June 2009, Pemex has asked for an extra $1.5 billion state aid to finance oil fields investments, reported Bloomberg.

  9. Carlos Slim - Wikipedia

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    Carlos Slim Helú ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾlos esˈlin eˈlu; - esˈlim -]; [1] born 28 January 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. [2] [3] From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world by Forbes business magazine. [4] [5] He derived his fortune from his extensive holdings in a ...