Formerly known as Blue Circle, Lafarge South Africa, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lafarge International, the world leader in construction materials. The company has been providing top quality products and services to the construction industry in this country since 1914.

Lafarge South Africa has access to extensive experience, years of painstaking research and development and personnel who are experts in their fields. Lafarge South Africa is a leader in production innovation and technical support providing three core product lines:

• cement 
• aggregates
• readymix concrete.

The company operates a modern cement production plant at Lichtenburg (North West Province) with a production capacity of more than 2.4 million tons of cement a year.

• Largest accredited civil engineering laboratory under the SANAS (South African National Accreditation System) scheme.
  
• Its technical laboratory earned accreditation for all SABS EN tests for cement, based on the requirements of the European Standards introduced in 1996.