page_title: Cemex
section_title: CEMEX worldwide
hierarchical_section_title: Cemex / CEMEX worldwide
caption_attribution_description: English: Offices of Cemex in Houston Español: Oficinas de Cemex en Houston
context_page_description: CEMEX S.A.B. de C.V., known as Cemex, is a Mexican multinational building materials company headquartered in San Pedro, near Monterrey, Mexico. It manufactures and distributes cement, ready-mix concrete and aggregates in more than 50 countries. It is the second largest building materials company worldwide, only after LafargeHolcim.
  Lorenzo Zambrano was the chairman and chief executive officer until his death on May 21, 2014. About one-third of the company's sales come from its Mexico operations, a quarter from its plants in the U.S., 15% from Spain, and smaller percentages from its plants around the world.
  CEMEX currently operates on four continents, with 66 cement plants, 2,000 ready-mix-concrete facilities, 400 quarries, 260 distribution centers and 80 marine terminals. The company's world headquarters are in San Pedro Garza García, a city that is part of the Monterrey metropolitan area in the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León.
context_section_description: CEMEX World Corporate Headquarters is in Monterrey, Mexico and its U.S. operations headquarters is in Memorial City, Houston, Texas.
  The company operates in over 50 countries/territories around the world including:
   Angola
   Argentina
   Brazil
   Brunei
   Colombia
   Costa Rica
   Croatia
   Czech Republic
   Dominican Republic
   Egypt
   El Salvador
   Finland
   France
   Germany
   Haiti
   Hungary
   Ireland
   Indonesia
   Israel
   Jamaica
   Latvia
   Malaysia
   Mexico
   Morocco
   Nicaragua
   Nigeria
   Norway
   Panama
   Perú
   Philippines
   Poland
   Puerto Rico
   Singapore
   Spain
   Sweden
    Switzerland
   Trinidad
   Turkey
   United Arab Emirates
   United Kingdom
   United States
caption: Cemex United States offices in Memorial City, Houston
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