Types of Cement

Our Portland Cement is a high-quality, cost-effective building material, mainly composed of clinker - that meets all applicable chemical and physical requirements and is widely used in all construction segments: residential, commercial, industrial, and public infrastructure.

CEMEX is one of the world's largest producers of White Portland Cement. This type of cement is manufactured  with limestone, low iron content kaolin clay, and gypsum. Our customers use White Portland Cement in architectural works requiring great brightness and artistic finishes, to create mosaics and artificial granite, and for sculptural casts and other applications where white prevails.

Composite cements are produced by inter-grinding or blending Portland cement and supplementary cementitious materials or secondary main constituents such as ground granulated blast furnace slag, fly ash, silica fume, calcined clay, hydrated lime, and other pozzolans.

The use of factory produced composite cement in ready-mix concrete reduces mixing water and bleeding, improves workability and finishing, inhibits sulfate attack and the alkali-aggregate reaction, and reduces the heat of hydration.

CEMEX offers an array of factory produced composite cement which have a lower CO2 footprint resulting from their lower clinker content due to the addition of supplementary cementitious materials.

The use of composite cements reinforces our strong dedication to sustainable practices and furthers our objective of offering an increasing range of more sustainable products. Find out more about our Sustainable Cement