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Vicat S.A., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production and sale of cement, ready-mixed concrete, and aggregates for construction industry. The company offers artificial cements, natural cements, and hydraulic road binders for use in housing, bridges, tunnels, and situations where the concrete is subject to aggressive environments. It also provides a range of aggregates, including alluvium or rock, and river or crusher gravel and sand; ready-mixed concretes comprising decorative, self-leveling, self-consolidating, road, architectural, and civil-engineering concretes; and premixed mortars and finishing products, such as adhesives, surfacing compounds, and premixed mortars for floors and tiling, walls, thermal insulation, and masonry and building structures. In addition, the company is involved in high-speed rail lines, motorway bridges, nuclear power plants, and airports construction works; and manufacture of large and medium-sized kraft bags and paper products. It operates in France, Switzerland, Italy, the United States, Brazil, India, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Egypt, Senegal, Mali, and Mauritania. The company was incorporated in 1853 and is headquartered in L'Isle-d'Abeau, France.