Almatis and Çimsa are pleased to announce their intention form a strategic collaboration for Calcium Aluminate Cement (CAC) products. The Parties intend to explore a strategic collaboration to leverage their combined expertise, market presence and resources to offer a wide product portfolio and support sustainable growth in the CAC market.
Both organizations have agreed in principle to cross-sell their respective CAC products in the market, utilize their respective supply chain & warehouse networks, investigate production capability & capacity expansion possibilities and collaborate for new product development. The strategic cooperation is intended to be finalized within the coming quarter and both organizations expect to begin joint commercial activities before years’ end.
Through this strategic collaboration, both companies are increasing the breadth of their respective CAC portfolios, creating a joint approach to reaching end customers with a full product line offering of CAC 40, 50, 70, and 80. This joint approach will allow the respective companies to reach and serve a larger and more diverse customer base, improve supply chain and logistic capacities, improve product availability, reliability and efficiency.
About Almatis & Çimsa
With over 100 years of experience, Almatis is the world’s leading manufacturer of specialty alumina products. Almatis currently manufactures and supplies CAC 70 & CAC80 products to the building chemistry and refractory industries, amongst many other markets.
Çimsa, a subsidiary of Sabancı Holding, is one of the world’s leading brands in white cement and one of the top three global producers of CAC. Çimsa is a leading global building materials producer with a strong focus on CAC products, particularly CAC 40 and CAC 50, which are designed for a wide range of construction, refractory, and specialty applications worldwide.