Outsourcing in cement industry

Cement producer Holcim Romania is outsourcing the security and cleaning services, the railroad, plant and equipment maintenance, as well as the demolition works.
The cement producers in Romania are outsourcing one by one those activities part of the old structure of the plants, which have nothing to do with the actual cement production. Lafarge and HeidelbergCement have almost completed the outsourcing operations, while the outsourcing at Holcim is still in progress.
The three major international cement producing groups Holcim, Lafarge and HeidelbergCement, which operate on the Romanian market, are following the trend registered abroad for several years now, that is outsourcing those services not part of the core business and focusing the capital and investments solely on retooling the plants, on environment protection and boosting production.
Holcim Romania, branch of the Swiss cement-producing group Holcim Ltd. is now shedding many services, given that the other two market players, HeidelbergCement and Lafarge Romcim, have done the same over the past few years.
“We are now outsourcing the security and cleaning services, the maintenance of the railroad, of the plant and equipment, as well as the demolition works. We are also analysing other services we could outsource,” Kurt Habersatter, Holcim Romania general manager told Ziarul Financiar. Habersatter would not specify the exact amount of the outsourced operations, as neither did he reveal the exact number of employees to be affected by this step, declining comment on the issue.
On the other hand, Lafarge has almost completed the outsourcing process of all the services not related to the core business of the cement factories taken over since its entry on the Romanian market.
As for HeidelbergCement, which currently holds the largest cement producing facilities in Romania, it has shed various non-core business services over the last few years, focusing on the cement business only.