1. Who is the Carmeuse Group?
A single company culture, populated by dynamic people who share a passion to develop Carmeuse.
Natural Solutions
October 15th 2001

2. Carmeuse in a snapshot Founded more than 150 years ago
#2 independent lime producer with >42 million tons of products in 2011
Production facilities in 13 countries Serving 70+ countries
2011 Revenues: €1,2 billion (~$1.5 billion) 2011 EBITDA: €249 million (~$300 million)
91 facilities – 47 quarries >30 years of reserves
Approx 4500 employees

3. International player with leading market positions
One of the leaders of its industry
#1 or #2 in most countries
Lime production
Czech Republic #3
Slovakia #1
Million tons
Belgium &
The Netherlands #2
North America #1
France #2
Turkey #1
Italy #1
Bosnia #1
Hungary #1
Carmeuse
Romania #1
Top 5 players have 20% global market share
No other player has a significant market share

4. Strong asset base Carmeuse quarries and production facilities
Reserves for significantly more than 30 years
Average contract age in excess of 15 years to purchase limestone at production facilities wherever we don’t own quarries
Continuous investment to replenish and grow the asset base
91 production facilities

5. What do we do?
Limestone processing
Limestone burnt into lime and dolime in Carmeuse facilities
Process
End use
CRUDE
BURNT
Carmeuse owns and operates quarries, and extracts Limestone
Steel, Water Treatment and Flue gas desulphurization, etc.
Construction , Roads, etc.
Flue gas desulphuri zation, Steel, Chemical, Agro-Food, etc.
Aggregate
High calcium limestone

6. Carmeuse’s main end-markets
Lime is key to most of our customers’ manufacturing processes, although representing a relatively low share of their overall cost base
Purify iron
Refines non ferrous metal
Recover precious metals
Treat effluents
Building materials
Roads and soil stabilization
Flue gas desulphurization
Domestic and industrial waste treatment
Drinking water treatment
Contaminated soil treatment
Iron and steel
Building and construction
Environmental applications
Applications

7. Diversification: geographies and end-markets
2011 revenues
By regions
By end-markets
13%

8. Your Mission if you Chose to Accept it
E-Business
We would like to implement a global e-business solution
EDI (electronic data interchange)
Web ordering and tracking
What we expect from your mission
Gather the business requirements
Analyze the requirements to determine which software package(s) meet the business requirements
Determine the hardware and software environment and specifications—what type of hardware (speed, memory, storage) for each environment (Development, Test, Production), communications protocols and formats (ANSI, XML, etc.), transaction volume and speed, communications bandwidth, and security required
Resources required to implement the project
Recommended project timeline
Return on investment analysis to sell the project to management for approval