Our strategy

Our strategy is the guide that will help us move forward as Holcim UK and is made up of our Vision, Mission, Values, and Culture.

Our industry has an incredibly exciting future, and we're in a prime position to make a difference. As a business, we’re in growth mode, and with that growth comes an amazing opportunity to shape not just our own success, but the impact we have on the world around us. That’s where our Vision, Mission, Values, and Culture come in; they’re the compass that guides us as we build the future together, a future of making sustainable construction a reality’.

Our Vision

Our vision is to Lead Building Innovation. We already play a vital role in society, building our homes, schools, hospitals, roads, and much more...

As a leader in our industry we also have the opportunity to continue to innovate and turn sustainable construction from rhetoric into reality.

We're already leading the way with our products including ECOCycle, ECOPlanet, and ECOPact, as well as our new digital platform Holcim+. We'll be growing these even further to lead the way in circularity.

Our Mission

Our mission is to Make Sustainable Construction a Reality. It's more than just a slogan, it's a commitment to a better future.

By embracing sustainability, we're meeting the evolving needs of our customers and the industry, enabling our green growth, and creating a shared goal that can bring us all together.

Our mission will help us connect with our communities and customers, and contribute to a healthier planet for generations to come. It's about building a positive and sustainable future together.

Our Values

Our Values are the things we focus on in order to make a difference, they are PEOPLE, PURPOSE, and PERFORMANCE.

People

When we talk about PEOPLE, we're referring to the people we're responsible to. Our Colleagues, Customers, and Communities.

By concentrating on these areas, we can shape what we want to be like as an employer - a company that keeps everyone safe and makes everyone feel at home, no matter what makes them individual.

It also helps us to build even stronger and more meaningful relationships with our Customers and Communities, so we can invite them on our journey, and work together in Making sustainable construction a reality.

Purpose

PURPOSE is the thing that gets us out of bed in the morning... it's the thing we can all contribute to, to achieve something bigger. At Holcim we have an amazing Purpose and we know that we can make a difference to our planet!

The three biggest ways we can contribute to this are Decarbonisation, Circularity, and Nature. We'll decarbonise our operations, we'll grow our offering in making new from old, and through our Nature Strategy, we'll become Nature Positive by 2030.

Performance

Our PERFORMANCE value will also drive us forward towards Making Sustainable construction a reality. It's about performing against our goals. To make sure we perform, we'll Focus, Improve, and Grow.

Focus is about concentrating on the stuff that will make the biggest difference to support our new Strategy.
Improve is about becoming more effective and efficient, helping Holcim UK to become even more successful.
Grow is concerned with how we'll increase our business, both organically and through further acquisitions

Leveraging Holcim's global presence

Holcim is the leading global construction materials and solutions company serving masons, builders, architects and engineers all over the world. Our operations produce cement, aggregates and ready-mix concrete which are used in building projects ranging from affordable housing and small, local projects to the biggest, most technically and architecturally challenging infrastructure projects. As urbanization increasingly impacts people and the planet, we provide innovative products and building solutions with a clear commitment to social and environmental sustainability.

Culture

Our Culture, we made sure we looked back over our previous company-wide and business-area strategies, spoke to hundreds of colleagues across our business and checked in with our customers. This enabled us to consider when we're at our best. By doing this we arrived at three clear Culture statements:

Let's do the right thing
Let's deliver together
Let's make a difference

Culture is all about our behaviours, so we've consciously chosen everyday language that feels 'very us' and sums up how we can all interact with each other day-to-day.

We know that we're on a journey with our Culture and that right now, these statements are not always lived, all of the time. This is why we've started each statement with 'Let's'. It's an invitation to join us on our journey, because if we deliver on that journey, not only will this make Holcim UK an even better place to work, it'll also equip us to perform even better too.

Our strategy

Our Values

Leveraging Holcim's global presence

Culture

Holcim is delivering growth through sustainable thinking