PPC Ltd, a supplier of

cement A cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together. Cement is seldom used on its own, but rather to bind sand and gravel ( aggregate) together. Cement mi ...

,aggregates, readymix and fly ash and related products in southern Africa. PPC’s story dates back over 130 years to where it was first incorporated in South Africa in 1892. As the country’s first cement plant, and now operating outside of South Africa’s boarders, in

Botswana Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the sou ...

and

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. The company is headquartered in

Sandton Sandton is a financial, commercial and residential area, located in the northern part of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Formerly an independent municipality, Sandton's name came from the combination of two of its suburbs, Sa ...

(Johannesburg). PPC’s Materials business, consisting of Pronto Holdings (including Pronto Building Materials, Ulula Ash and 3Q Mahuma Concrete), forms part of the company’s channel management strategy for southern Africa. PPC’s footprint in the readymix sector has grown to include 29 batching plants across South Africa and Mozambique and also has the capacity to produce half a million tons of fly ash. PPC also produces aggregates in South Africa and Botswana. PPC Lime, one of the largest lime producers in the southern hemisphere, produces metallurgical-grade calcitic and dolomitic lime and sinter stone used mainly in the steel and related industries. In 2019, PPC Ltd indicated that currency depreciation in

had negatively affected the group's bottom-line. File:PPC Cement Freightliner Columbia (18424676351).jpg, A PPC Ltd freightliner.

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Why S&P is upbeat on PPC
As of 3 July 2018 (Available via subscription only).
AfriSam Cancels Head of Terms With PPC
A of 25 August 2018.
''PPC Limited Integrated Report 2018''
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