SIBELCO Overview
Company Headquarters: Antwerp, Belgium
Founded: 1872
Workforce: ~10,000
Company Working: Sibelco is among the oldest manufacturers of quartz sand in the market. More than 140 years old, Sibelco initially started in Belgium and extended its presence to the UK and many other countries across the globe. Currently, it operates in more than 40 countries with around 200 production sites globally. It manufactures magnetite, olivine, silica, kaolin, quartz, chromite, bentonite, glass cullet, and Wollastonite, among others. Its operating business segments are built environment, glass solutions, energy solutions, water & environmental solutions, coatings, polymers & chemical solutions, Covia, and others. Kaolin is manufactured under the glass solutions segment. The products manufactured by the company are sold across many end-use industries, including agriculture, ceramics, construction, and glass.
Strategy
Sibelco Group is working towards the strategy 2025 to become a global leader in the mining, processing & selling of silica sand and a regional leader in clays, feldspathic, olivine, and glass recycling. The Sibelco 2025 plan is divided into three separate temporal phases: focus, win, and grow. The first phase began in late 2020 when Sibelco had a competitive advantage or might develop a path to gaining a competitive advantage. Following that, it set out to reclaim the potential to win by establishing a new geographical structure, improving management, implementing modern systems (SAP S4/Hana, Salesforce, and Workday), sharpening business processes, strengthening sustainability framework, and tightening corporate governance. Also, it continued to build industrial platforms, which serve as a hub for cluster coordination and support. This technology enables to optimization of backbone procedures while also improving overall operational and commercial efficiency at the site, cluster, and central Sibelco levels. The company is highly ambitious to achieve its targets. In 2022, it acquired Kremer Beheer B.V. in the Netherlands, Eusebio Echave S.A. in Spain, and Bassanetti & C S.R.L. in Italy to expand silica and glass recycling operations in Western Europe.
