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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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2010 |
PPC achieves Level 2 B-BBEE contributor rating , the highest in the cement industry .
PPC celebrates 100 years on the JSE .
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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
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( 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 .
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2017 |
PPC Zimbabwe officially commissions new Harare mill . |