61¡¢Taiwan Cement Corp.
Taiwan Province, China
Tel: 886-2-25316639 or 886-2-25316546
Fax: 886-2-25316650
E-Mail:590210@tcc.com.tw
http://www.tcc.com.tw
Chairman : Mr. Koo Chen-fu¡E President: Mr. Koo Cheng-yun
$527.3 million
Core business areas are Cement

Cement£¨Unit:Mt£© and RMC( Ready-Mix Concrete, £¨Unit: m³£©) Production & Sales During 1997-1999

Revenues During Year 1997-1999($1000NT)

Incorporated in: May 1946 ¡E Privatized in: November 1954 ¡E
Total capital : NT$27 billion (including NT$1.5 billion convertible corporate bonds) Authorized capital: NT$25.5 billion ¡E Paid-in capital: NT$23.72 billion ¡E Manpower size: Over 2,000 employees ¡E
Business lines:Production and marketing of cement, cement products, paper bags, paper and sludge treatment agent. As Taiwan's first listed company, Taiwan Cement Corp. was privatized in 1954. Since then, it has grown by leaps and bounds in line with Taiwan's economy.

62¡¢Libbey-Owens-Ford Co. Inc.
Toledo, OH
Tel: (419) 247-3731
Fax: (419) 247-3821
http://www.LOF.com
President of Automotive: Warren Knowlton
$500 million
Manufactures flat glass, primarily for automative and residential construction markets.
Parent company: Pilkington

63¡¢Didier-Werke AG
Wiesbaden, Germany
Chairman£º W. Von Wietzlow
$445.241 million
Manufactures refractories and other fireproof materials.
Didier-Werke AG is one of the world's largest manufacturers of fireproof materials. In addition, the company is also engaged in technical installations for industrial plants. The most important clients for Didier's fireproof products are manufacturers of industrial materials, such as the steel, glass, cement and ceramics industries. The company's steel sales division and the manufacturing plant in Duisburg were awarded the quality management certification ISO 9001. The company underwent major restructuring during 1998 and 1999. Didier has worldwide subsidiaries. Fireproof materials accounted for 77% of 1999 revenues and technical installations, 23%.
Majority shareholder: Veitsch-Radex AG
Subsidiaries: Zircoa, Didier Taylor Refractory Corp., North American
£¨Didier-Werke AG merge with Vertsch-Radex AG, AP Green Industries, Inc. and North American Refractories Co. Form a new company called RHI AG.£©

64¡¢Keramik Holding AG Laufen
Laufen, Basil, Switzerland
Tel: (41) 61-765-711
http://www.laufen.com
President£º Jose Miguel Roca
$443.7 million
In the last quarter of 1999, this firm was acquired by Compania Roca Radiadores of Spain. The latest available sales figures for Keramic Holding alone, given above, are for 1998. In that year, sanitaryware provided 57% of the firm sales; ceramic wall/floor tile provided 43%, with roof tile and bricks accounting for most of the rest.
The Laufen Group is an international ceramics company specializing in two product lines: porcelain and fire clay sanitaryware pieces and bathroom accessories, and tiles.
With over a century of history, Laufen is the sanitaryware market leader in South America, we have a strong position in Europe and we are increasing our activities in Asia and North America.
Since last quarter of 1999, Compa?ía Roca Radiadores ("ROCA") is leading Keramik Holding Laufen ("LAUFEN"). In this sense, our group represents the second largest bathroom producer group in the world and one of the leading producers of ceramic tiles. We have different production operations in 16 countries offering a diversified product range based on a competitive cost structure. Furthermore, we are trading our product in all over the world. ROCA and LAUFEN are maintaining different and independent organization, brands, products and distribution.
Subsidiary: Laufen Ceramics Inc. and Laufen USA.
Parent company: Compania Roca Radidores

65¡¢Cementos Portland, S.A.
Calle Estella, 6 principal£¬31002 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
Tel: +34-(0)94-842-62-00
Fax: +34-(0)94-810-62-10
Chairman and CEO£º R. Martinez-ynzenga Canovas Del Castillo
423,581,311 Eur
Cementos Portland S.A. is involved in the production and distribution of artificial portland cement. The company has a large number of subsidiaries in Spain and four associated companies in the USA. Cement accounted for 67% of 1999 revenues; concrete, 26%; gravel, 5% and other, 2%.

66¡¢Compania de Cemento Argos SA
Carrera 46 No. 56-11, Pisos 10 and 15,
Edificio Torre Argos,Medellin, Colombia, South America.
Tel£º +57 4 2514400
E-mail: mercadeo@cementoargos.com.co
http://www.argos.com.co
Chairman£º A. Arango Montoya
$444 million£¨1998£©
Core business areas are cement, clicker and concrete.
The Argos Group has a production capacity of 7,500,000 tons per annum, divided up between eight cement plants located throughout the length and breadth of the country.
The Argos Group, throughout the sixty years it has played a leading role in the development of this country, has remained directly associated with its products in the building of each piece of infrastructure in Colombia and in each privately-financed project of considerable scope.
The Argos Group has sufficient installed capacity to offer different types of concrete, cement, mortars and limes that comply with the highest physical-chemical requirements, which are well backed up with production technology and service.
Compania de Cemento Argos SA produces a variety of cements, ready mixed concrete, clinker and colclinker. The company subsidiaries include Cementos El Cairo, del Caribe, Rio Claro, del Valle, Colclinker and Cementos del Nare.

67¡¢SEMAPA
AV FONTES PEREIRA DE MELO, 14 - 10 ANDAR£¬
LISBOA 1050£¬Portugal
Tel: +351 1 3142630
Chairman£º P. Mendonca De Queiroz Pereira
$379 million £¨1998 £©
Core business areas are cement.
SEMAPA - Sociedade de Investimentos e Gestao, SGPS, SA is engaged in the production and distribution of cement and its by-products such as: ready-mixed concrete, hydraulic lime, tile cement, mortar, quarries and aggregates, cement terminals, wood-cement panels, etc. The company also sells electric power through its mini hydroelectric plants.

68¡¢Asia Cement Corp.
30th Floor, Taipeimetro Tower 207, Tun Hwa
South Road, Section 2£¬Taipei 106, Taiwan, China
Tel: 886-2-27338000
Fax: 886-2-27366263,23785191
E-Mail: cpsue@Mail.Asiacement.com.tw
http://www.asiacement.com.tw
Chairman£º Douglas Tong Hsu
Presideng: K. Y. Lee
$385 million
Incorporation: March 21, 1957 Capital: NT$ 16,691,864,610
Scope of Business: 1. Manufacturing and distributing cement, semi-finished cement, cement products, ready-mixed concrete and ready-mixed concrete admixtures. 2. Extracting, processing and distributing gravel and raw materials for cement and cement product; producing and distributing slag powder and limestone powder. 3. Importing / exporting, acting as agent for and distributing the aforementioned products and related equipment. 4. Warehousing and loading / unloading of cement, clinker and other cargo. 5. Dealing in operations related to forestation. 6. Contraction developers to build residential units; leasing and selling business buildings. 7. Developing, leasing or selling industrial zones (with the exception of actual construction). 8. Investing in and managing office buildings, convention centers, exhibition halls, malls, repair shops, warehouses, hotels, etc. 9. Investing in and managing parking lots on locations covered by urban planning. 10. Categorizing and warehousing of commodities. 11. Offering consultancy on cement-making technology and turnkey design/planning of cement-making equipment; offering consultancy on general business administration except for architect, accountant and securities advisory services.

69¡¢China National New Building Materials £¨Group£© Corp. £¨CNNBM(G)C£©
2 Zizhuyuan Nanlu, Haidian District, Beijing 100044, China
Tel£º010-68415577
Fax£º010-68428350
E-mail: CNBM@PUBLIC3.BAT.CN
Chairman£ºGe Tieming
Sales£º$362 million (RMB3.0 billion)
China National New Building Material (Group) Corporation £¨CNNBM(G)C£©was initiated in 1980 and established in January 1984 upon approval of the State Council for the development of Chinese new building materials.
In 1987, the corporation was listed separately in the state plan.
In 1991, the corporation was designated as one of the first 56 pilot enterprise groups.
In 1995, it was designated as one of the 520 large enterprise groups to be supported by the State.
In 1999 CNNBM(G)C was appointed to be one of the 163 national important key enterprises.
CNNBM(G)C has become the leading backbone enterprise in our country’s building material industries with its grand scale assets, rich technology level and various relevant businesses. The scope of business includes industrial production, sales and distribution, scientific research and design, real estate development, import & export trade, consultative services and so on. The products involve not only the new building materials but also the traditional building materials. Among the main products, liner gypsum board, light steel stud and rock wool covers more than 30% of the market for same products and glass fiber occupies about 20% of the market for same products. The occupation rate of the cement and glass have reached also certain percentage of the market.
CNNBM(G)C enjoy import & export rights and the rights to take foreign engineering contract as well as the labor cooperation right and the foreign affairs right. At present, CNNBM(G)C has owned 8 leading scientific research and design institutes for new building materials, cement, glass, and ceramics industries etc. Now 17 (group) subsidiaries are owned and controlled directly by CNNBM(G)C while almost a hundred grand daughter companies owned by CNNBM(G)C are managed by its subsidiary groups.
In June of 1997, the wholly-owned subsidiary of CNNBM(G)C Beijing New Building Material (Group) Limited Company established Beijing New Building Material Group Limited-liability Company for issue of A shares in Shenzhen Stock Market.
In March of 1999, a holding company named China Chemical Building Material Limited-liability Company was established and listed in Shanghai Stock Market for A shares.
In June of 1999, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNNBM(G)C named China United Cement Limited Company was established.
In May of 2000, a Wholly-owned subsidiary of CNNBM(G)C named China Kaisheng International Engineering Consulting Company was established.
By the end of December 31, 1999, the whole assets of CNNBM(G)C was about RMB 10.8 billion yuan, the turnover income of CNNBM(G)C for 1999 realized at RMB 3 billion yuan, the profits and tax of CNNBM(G)C reached RMB 1.205 billion yuan.
By the end of December 31, 1999, the CNNBM(G)C had 22,100 staffs working for it. Among them 8230 staffs were the management persons. Among the 4305 technicians, there were 942 persons with senior titles and 1584 persons with middle titles and 1541 persons with primary titles.

70¡¢Shanghai Building Materials Group Corporation (SBM)
240 Beijing East Road, Shanghai 200002, China
Tel: 0086-21-63219822, 63292505.
Fax: 0086-21-63290453
CEO: Zaiwei Jiang
$353 million £¨RMB 2.93 billion Yuan£©
Shanghai Building Materials Group Corporation (SBM) is a state-owned proprietary corporation established on the basis of Shanghai Building Materials Industrial Administration Bureau. With its assets, SBM cements 50 wholly owned subsidiaries, 52 holding and participating companies as well as its production and distribution system.
SBM is among top 500 enterprises in China and is one of the 54 major group corporations supported by Shanghai Municipality. The main business scope of SBM is as follows: glass and its high value-added products, water-proof building materials, thermal insulation materials, interior and exterior decorative materials, complete set of mechanical equipment, trading and real estates development, construction and decoration, and so on.
SBM has a number of backbone enterprises with famous brands in the field of building materials industry, enjoying a good reputation both at home and abroad. Its products are widely applied in civil constructions, buildings, chemical industry, auto industry, etc. SBM has left glorious steps in the large projects and landscape markable buidings of Shanghai. SBM has great effects on improving technical content and strenthing ecnomy and improving comptitive ability of Shanghai Building Materials industry based on policy of “From Large to Strong?by restructuring its products and industry, absorbing foreign fund and technology, establishing joint ventures with multinational companies. The newly constructed projects reach the international levels, first class quality and economic scale, which greatly improve Shanghai building material industry technology and strengthen its economic force and competitive force.
Following the "3+1" strategy (i.e. mainly developing glass and its high value-added products, new materials of chemical building materials, decoration industry, and turning the traditional cement industry into environmental protection industry ), SBM strives to be an internationally influential group corporation with the combination of scientific research, manufacturing industry, trade and finance.