User:Thebigfatgeek/Kerneos

Kerneos was previously know as Lafarge Aluminates. In 20xx Lafarge Cement formed Materis, consisting of their specialty materials divisions and consisted of Lafarge Mortars, Lafarge Aluminates, Lafarge Paints, Chryso and Lafarge Refractories. A majority stake was sold to Carlyle Investments in an LBO deal to finance the takeover of Blue Circle Cement by Lafarge.

In a second LBO deal in 200x, Carlyle and Lafarge sold their stake in Materis to LBO France, a French investment fund, with Lafarge Cement retaining a 6% stake in the company. in 200x Lafarge and LBO sold their shareholdings in Materis to Wendel Investments, another French investment fund. The right to use the Lafarge name was withdrawn, and Lafarge Aluminates was re-branded as Kerneos.

Kerneos manufactures Calcium Aluminates Cements in its various manufacturing facilities throughout the world. The company has clinker producing facilities at:

Le Teil, Ardeche, France Fos-sur-Mer, France Dunkerque, France West Thurrock, Essex, United Kingdom Norfolk, Virginia, United States Tian Jin, China Great Wall, China Yindu, China Shawen, China

It also has grinding facilities in:

Richards Bay, South Africa Quanxidaba, Brazil