CEO Today Africa Awards

www.ceotodaymagazine.com 16 CEO Today Africa Awards 2019 MOROCCO MATTEO ROZZANIGO General Manager Cements of Morocco FIRM PROFILE Cements of Morocco, a subsidiary of HeidelbergCement Group, is the 2nd cement in Morocco and the first operator in the concrete ready for use and aggregates. The industrial facility of Ciments du Maroc consists of 3 factories (Aït Baha, Safi and Marrakech), 2 grinding centers (Laayoune and Jorf Lasfar), 5 quarries and 30 concrete plants located throughout the main cities of the Kingdom. Ciments du Maroc has 813 employees divided between cement and materials activities. Since 1 st July 2016 Cements of Morocco is part of HeidelbergCement Group . Following the integration between HeidelbergCement and Italcementi, the group becomes, globally, the largest producer of aggregates, the second largest in the cement industry and the third in the ready-mix concrete market with 60,000 employees working in more than 3,000 production sites across 60 countries on 5 continents. The total production capacity of the 156 cement plants is nearly 200 million tonnes of cement . HeidelbergCement Group has more than 600 aggregates quarries and more than 1,700 concrete plants . It becomes one of the largest integrated manufacturers of building materials in the world. ABOUT BOB VAN DIJK Graduate of the Polytechnic University of Milan (industrial engineer), Matteo Rozzanigo has held several positions of responsibility at Italcementi since 2007 including the position of Director of cement and BPE activities in the Middle East and the position of General Manager of the Spanish subsidiary FYM . From 2016, Matteo Rozzanigo was appointed to the position of Development Director for the South West Europe Zone of He i d e l b e r gCeme n t and then Director of Strategy and Development of the German Group.