11、Heidelberger Zement AG
Berliner Strasse 6， 69120 Heidelberg，Germany
Tel：+49 6221481-227
Fax：+49 6221481-203
www.heidelberger-zement.de
Since 1995, Heidelberger Zement has a participation in China. The Group holds a 30 % stake in China Century Cement (CCC), which runs 3 cement plants in the Guangdong province.

12、Pilkington, Inc.
St. Helens, Merseyside, U.K.
Phone: 44-1744-28882
Fax: 44-1744-692660
www.pilkington.com
Chief Executive, Paolo Scaroni
$4.52 billion
Pilkington was founded in 1826 and remained a private company until 1970 when shares were issued on the London Stock Exchange.
Today Pilkington plc is a large-scale manufacturer of glass and glazing products for building, automotive and technical markets.
Annual annual revenues of ￡2.7 billion and manufacturing operations in 22 countries on four continents. About 85 per cent of the Group's sales are outside the United Kingdom. Pilkington has major market shares in the building and automotive product markets of the world.
About 48% of total sales are in building products. Of this total:
62% are in Europe
19% in North America
19% in South America/ Asia-Pacific
About 45% of total sales are in automotive products. Of this total:-
46% are in Europe
44% in North America
10% in South America/Asia-Pacific
The remaining 7% of sales are in technical products.
At the heart of Pilkington's business is the float glass process - invented by Sir Alastair Pilkington in 1952 - which manufactures clear, tinted and coated glass for buildings, and clear and tinted glass for vehicles.
A float plant, which operates non-stop for up to 12 years, makes around 6000 kilometres of glass a year in thicknesses of 0.4mm to 25mm and in widths up to 3 metres. The float process is licensed to more than 40 manufacturers in 30 countries. It has earned more than ￡600 million in licensing revenue. There are over 200 float plants worldwide with a combined output of about 3500 miles of glass a day.
Pilkington operates 23 float glass plants in 11 countries - the UK, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Germany, Italy, US, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Australia - and has interests in ten more, which are operated by partners or associates. A new joint venture plant in Spain is due on stream in early 2000. A combined float, laminating and coating plant is to be built in France, to come on stream at the end of 2001 or early 2002.
Float glass for the building market is sold without further processing, or it is processed into products with additional properties. Pilkington makes products to help control energy usage, to protect against fire, to insulate against noise, to provide safety and security, to afford decoration and privacy, and to build all-glass facades. Pilkington employs large-scale coating, laminating, and silvering processes to make these products.
The company makes processed building glass products in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic, Poland, United States, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand. In some cases it sells through its own downstream processors and distributors.
Float glass is also processed into automotive glazing products and systems. Pilkington is one of the world's largest suppliers of toughened and laminated safety glass for cars, trucks and buses - one in four of the world's cars contains Pilkington products. Supplying the world's leading carmakers, Pilkington is expert in shaping and strengthening glass to meet the complex requirements of today's cars.
Pilkington has automotive glass operations in 21 countries, with major factories in the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Poland (opened in 1999), US, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and China. Pilkington also has interests in companies manufacturing automotive products in Mexico and Taiwan. It has replacement glass operations in Europe, North and South America and Australasia.
The Group makes a wide range of automotive glazings for new cars and for replacement markets, offering full systems capability to customers, from initial design to final product. Pilkington products include solar control glass for passenger comfort, glass heating systems to control condensation and icing, security glazing, and glazing systems with components - such as radio antennas - added after basic manufacturing.
Pilkington also makes a range of technical glass products including very thin float glass for the electronics industry, automotive mirrors and solar panels for energy generation. The Group also manufactures glass and plastic composite glazing for aircraft and locomotives.
Pilkington invests around ￡40 million a year in research and development. The technical programmes focus on product development and manufacturing efficiency improvement.
In addition to the float glass process, which is now the universal method for making high quality flat glass, Pilkington inventions include energy-saving products such as Pilkington K Glass^TM; advanced bending processes for making car windscreens in complex shapes to fine tolerances; Pilkington Pyrostop^TM advanced fire-resistant glass; Ez-Kool^TM, Sundym^TM and Galaxsee^TM solar control glass for cars; solar reflective automotive glazing; the Pilkington Planar^TM structural glazing system; and the 3R^TM clean air process for reducing nitrogen oxide emissions from glass furnaces.
The Pilkington board has three executive directors, and five non-executive directors who include the chairman. Group functions are responsible for the professional direction of the businesses in their respective disciplines (corporate affairs, environment and safety, finance, supply management, legal and secretarial, human resources, information systems). The building and automotive products businesses have dedicated R&D and there is a global engineering function.
The Group employs about 31,000 people. There are 5,700 in the UK, 13,800 in continental Europe, 6,700 in North America, 2,100 in South America and 2,900 in Asia-Pacific.
Glass products for the buildings market account for about half of Pilkington's sales; transport/automotive account for about 45%, with the rest in the electronics and optical markets.
Subsidiary: Libbey-Owens-Ford Co.

13、CEMENTOS MEXICANOS S.A.de C.V.
Mexico
N.L.， Mexico
Phone: (528) 328 3000
Fax: (528) 328 3188
Chairman of the Board and CEO：Lorenzo H. Zambrano
http://www.cemex.com
/US$ 4315 million
1906-1966: The birth and consolidation of northern Mexico’ s leading cement company
1966-1985: Evolution from a local to a regional cement player
1985-1992: CEMEX emerges as Mexico’ s leading cement company
1992-1999: Global diversification and CEMEX’ s evolution into the world’ s third-largest cement company
In 1996, CEMEX became the world’ s third-largest cement company, bringing CEMEX’ s total installed capacity to almost 50 million metric tons.
The Asian economic crisis triggered the consolidation of the region’ s cement industry, creating attractive opportunities for a strategic investor like CEMEX. In 1997, after building a significant regional trading presence, CEMEX made its first direct move into the Southeast Asian market by acquiring a 30% stake in Rizal Cement Company in the Philippines. CEMEX also signed an agreement to provide its operational expertise to Rizal in exchange for technical assistance fees.
During 1998 and early 1999, CEMEX expanded its Southeast Asian foothold by acquiring a 20% interest in Indonesia’s largest cement producer, PT Semen Gresik. CEMEX also consolidated its Philippine presence by acquiring an additional 40% economic interest in Rizal and a 99.9% economic interest in APO Cement Corporation. In doing so, CEMEX became the Philippines’ second largest cement producer.
Because of CEMEX’s trading volume - the largest in the world - and extensive international network, it is able to place suppliers’ surplus cement on both long-term and spot bases.

14、Italcementi Group
Address: Via Camozzi, 124-24121 Bergamo, Italy
Tel: +39-35396111
Fax: +39-35244905
E-mail：info.itcgr@itcgr.net
www.italcementi-group.com
President and CEO, Giampiero Pesenti
$3.536 billion
Italcementi Group is the largest producer and distributor of cement in Europe and one of the leaders in the world.
It operates in 13 countries including Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Turkey and the United States, with recent acquisitions in Bulgaria, Kazakhstan and Thailand.

15、Blue Circle
Blue Circle Cement Head Office
PO Box 125, Didcot, OX11 OXS
Tel: 01235 448400 01235 448401 01235 448402
Fax: 01235 448410
E-mail: afgale@bluecircle.co.uk
http://www.cement.bluecircle.co.uk
President and CEO, Christopher Tugendhat
$3.06 Billion
Blue Circle Industries PLC is an international group of heavy building materials companies focused on cement.
Our objective is to create shareholder value through:
Improving margins from our existing businesses
Reinvesting our strong cash flows to make acquisitions in both mature markets, where significant synergy benefits are available, and high growth developing markets
Integrating our newly acquired assets, rapidly and effectively
Blue Circle has a strong platform for near and long-term growth through established positions in core regions, aiming to be the number one or two player, lowest cost producer in each market we enter and supplier of choice to our customers.

16、Siam Cement Group
Add: 1 Siam Cement Road, Bangsue, Bagkok 10800, Thailand
Tel: (662) 586-3333, 586-4444
Fax: (662) 587-2199, 586-279
http://www.cementhai.co.th
$3.034 billion
His Majesty King Rama VI issued a Royal Decree in 1913 establishing The Siam Cement Company Limited (now a public company limited) to create a domestic source of cement to reduce Thailand's dependence on imports of this critical construction material and to add value to domestic natural resources. Over the ensuing nine decades, Siam Cement has grown right along with the Thai economy and evolved to include basic industries vital to national development, such as construction materials, electrical products, steel, machinery, automotive products, paper, packaging, and petrochemicals. At present, the Siam Cement Group comprises many companies that have earned international recognition for quality and for industry leadership in Thailand and in the region.

17、Cookson Group Plc
London, U.K.
Phone: 44-171-766-4500
Fax: 44-171-747-6600
www.cooksongroup.co.uk
Group Chief Executive, Stephen Howard
$728 million (ceramic products only)
Cookson's Ceramics Division provided 26% of the parent company's 1998 sales of $2.8 billion by marketing ceramic refractory systems for the steel, glass and foundry industries, mostly through its Vesuvius subsidiaries. A major expansion is expected in this division following the June 1999 announcement of a definitive agreement to acquire Premier Refractories International from the Alpine Group. Other Cookson divisions include Electronics, which sells equipment and materials (including ceramic powders) to makers of printed circuit boards (for 43% of the parent company's sales), and Engineering (which includes a line of fiber optic cables).
Subsidiaries: Vesuvius, and Vesuvius Crucible Co.

18、Boral Ltd.
Sydney, Australia
Phone: (61) 2-9220-6300
Fax: (61) 2-9223-6605
www.boral.com.au
Managing Director and CEO, Tony Berg
$2.2 billion* (building materials only)
Worldwide sales in building materials (primarily bricks, plus plasterboard, roofing, tiles, etc.) account for 75% of Boral's annual sales of $2.8 billion.

19、Armstrong World Industries
Lancaster, PA
www.armstrong.com
Chairman and CEO, George Lorch
$2.75 billion
Tile is a decreasing share of the corporation's total sales, which reached $2.75 billion in 1998. The above figure of nearly $757 million is for the Building Products division, which includes ceramic wall and floor tile and other building products. Much of the company’s sales are in non-ceramic products, such as vinyl and laminate flooring. During 1998, Armstrong sold its 34% interest in Dal-Tile.
Subsidiary: Recubrimentos Interceramic SA (joint venture with Internacional de Ceramica, S.A. de C.V.)

20、PPG Industries Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
Phone: (412) 434-3131
Fax: (412) 434-2448
www.ppg.com
Chair and CEO, Raymond LeBoeuf
$2.5 billion (glass products only)
PPG Industries is a leading global supplier of coatings, continuous-strand fiber glass, flat and fabricated glass and chemicals. The company has about 50 production facilities in the United States and 110 worldwide, including subsidiaries, joint ventures and equity affiliates. PPG employs about 32,500 people and is owned by about 95,000 shareholders, including about 25,000 employees and retirees.
PPG is one of the world’s largest producers of automotive, industrial and packaging coatings, the largest maker of aircraft transparencies and second-largest of continuous-strand fiber glass, a leading manufacturer of chor-alkali and specialty chemicals, North America’ s largest producer of flat and fabricated glass, and a leading North American producer of architectural coatings.
Since 1883 PPG Industries, Inc. has been dedicated to providing innovative materials for manufacturing, construction, automotive, chemical processing and numerous other global industries. This dedication has netted great strides in the development of protective and decorative coatings, flat glass, fabricated glass products, continuous-strand fiber glass products, and industrial and specialty chemicals. A leading global manufacturer, PPG operates about 110 major manufacturing and seven research & development facilities worldwide.
Glass products make up 34% of PPG's total 1998 sales of $7.5 billion. The company blamed the Glass segment's decline on "modestly lower pricing as well as reduced fiber glass volumes." Other company segments are Chemicals and Coatings.
1998 REVIEW
Net Sales $7.5 Billion
Net Income $ 801.0 Million
Earnings per Share $ 4.52
Average Shares Outstanding $ 177.0 Million
Employees 32,500
Capital Expenditures $ 877 Million
R&D Expenditures $287 Million

Major Markets Served (Approximate Percent of Sales)
Transportation (EOM & Replacement) 45%
Construction (New & Remodeling) 15%
Chemical Processing 15%
Other 25%
Subsidiary: Pittsburgh Corning Corp. (in a joint venture with Corning Inc.)