SIBELCO

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.

Company Snapshot

$3,050.8M

Revenue

10,000

Employees

1872

Founded

Antwerp, Belgium

Headquarters

SWOT Analysis

Strengths

Strong product portfolio
Large mining area
Strong technological support

Weaknesses

changing labour market landscape
Challenges relating to license to operate mines

Opportunities

Strong operational presence
Technological advancement
Growing investment in silica sand mining

Threats

Strict regulation to preserve
Biodiversity
Rising operating costs and Increased market competition

Key Developments

Date	Approach	Development
December 2022	Merger & Acquisition	Sibelco Group has acquired the Bassanetti Group in Italy as part of its long-term strategy to strengthen its presence in Southern Europe. The Bassanetti Group operates three sand quarries in the Piacenza region in northern Italy and has been a major local participant in the extraction, processing, and sale of stone aggregates, silica sands, and gravels for over 50 years.
December 2022	Joint Venture	Sibelco Group and Diatreme Resources formed a joint venture for silica sand production. Sibelco has agreed to invest AUD 49 million (EUR 32 million) in Diatreme Resources Limited, a Brisbane-based developing Australian developer of mineral and silica mines.
August 2022	Merger & Acquisition	Sibelco Group acquired Echasa, a mining company that extracts silica sand at Laminoria Quarry near Vitoria in northern Spain's Basque Country and is approximately 160 km from Sibelco's nearest silica sand mine in Arija. The acquisition is in line with Sibelco's 2025 strategy and the company's vision of becoming the global leader in silica sand will broaden Sibelco's customer base in the glass, foundry, and construction markets in northern Spain, as well as expand Sibelco's silica sand reserves and resources in Western Europe.
March 2022	Merger & Acquisition	Sibelco Group acquired Kremer Zand en Grind (KZG), a Dutch company that manufactures green sand, dry sand, ordinary sand, and gravel. The acquisition is consistent with the company's 2025 strategy and objective of being a global leader in silica sand. It will help to increase its customer base, as will its silica sand assets and resources throughout Western Europe.

Product Offering

Sibelco Group
- Silica Sand

Financial Performance

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