1888

Edouard Lippert gets permission from Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic, to build the first local cement factory outside of Pretoria.

1892

Edouard Lippert registers De Eerste Cement Fabrieken Beperkt.

1902

De Eerste Cement Fabrieken Beperkt changes its name to The First Portland Cement Factory Limited.

1908

The First Portland Cement Factory changes its name to the Pretoria Portland Cement Company Limited and declares its first dividend.

1910

PPC is listed on the JSE.

1916

PPC’ s new Slurry factory in the North West Province produces its first cement.

1921

PPC establishes the Cape Portland Cement Company and builds a factory at De Hoek.

1927

PPC floats the Eastern Province Cement Company and builds a cement factory on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth.

1937

PPC’ s Jupiter factory in Germiston produces its first cement.

1946

PPC purchases property that will eventually become the Riebeeck operation.

1949

PPC commissions its new factory in Orkney.

1956

PPC begins the planning and construction of the Riebeeck cement factory.

1958

PPC’ s Slurry operation converts from the wet process to the dry mix system.

1960

The Riebeeck cement factory is commissioned.

PPC becomes a subsidiary of the Barlow Rand Group.

1977

The Cape Portland Cement Company becomes a full subsidiary of PPC.

PPC acquires the Northern Lime Company and enters the lime market.

1984

PPC’ s Dwaalboom cement plant is completed, but mothballed due to the economic recession.

1992

PPC celebrates its centenary year.

1994

PPC signs an agreement with Botswana Development Corporation to construct a cement blending plant and depot in

Gaborone.

PPC commissions its Gaborone cement blending plant and depot.

1996

PPC launches its SureBuild general purpose cement to the Botswana market.

PPC acquires the Laezonia quarry in Muldersdrift.

1997

PPC’ s materials handling facility at Saldanha Steel in the Western Cape comes online.

1998

The mothballed Dwaalboom plant is recommissioned.

1999

PPC acquires the Kgale quarry in Botswana.

2001

PPC acquires ownership of Portland Holdings Limited, Zimbabwe’ s top cement company.

PPC purchases the Mooiplaas dolomite quarry on the outskirts of Pretoria.

2003

PPC is included in the FTSENSE Top 40 Companies index.

2006

PPC becomes a constituent of the JSE Socially Responsible Investment Index.

2007

PPC is unbundled from Barloworld.

2008

PPC establishes its first broad-based black economic empowerment( B-BBEE) transaction.

2009

PPC achieves Level 3 B-BBEE contributor rating.

PPC launches South Africa’ s first 3-D branded cement tankers.

2010

PPC achieves Level 2 B-BBEE contributor rating, the highest in the cement industry.

PPC celebrates 100 years on the JSE.

2011

PPC acquires three aggregate quarries from Quarries of Botswana for USD6.8-million.

PPC and IDC jointly acquire a 47 % equity stake( USD21-million) in Ethiopia’ s Habesha Cement Share Company.

PPC announces its second-phase B-BBEE transaction, resulting in 26 % black ownership of PPC South Africa.

2012

PPC launches its Express Outlet Pilot Project to local entrepreneurs.

PPC’ s Nolwandle Mantashe is named Transformation Champion of the Year at the 2012 Van Ryn’ s Black Business Quarterly

( BBQ) Awards.

Pretoria Portland Cement( PPC) Company Limited changes its name to PPC Ltd.

PPC signs MoU with DRC’ s Barnet Group to build USD230-million cement factory in DRC.

2013

PPC Zimbabwe announces its plans to construct a new cement plant to service the Harare and central Mozambique

markets.

PPC Barnet DRC signs engineering contract with China’ s Sinoma International Engineering Company for construction of

DRC cement plant.

2014

PPC launches SureBuild cement to Zimbabwean market.

PPC launches Cement and Concrete Cube( C3), a subject-specific information-sharing platform for cement and concrete.

2015

PPC Zimbabwe breaks ground at its Msasa plant.

PPC launches PPC Imaginarium Awards.

2017

PPC Zimbabwe officially commissions new Harare mill.