2005
Cession of the Refractory Division.
   
 
2004 View
Lhoist enters Brazil through the acquisition of the Group Votorantim´s lime division (Cal-Itaú) comprising 4 plants in Minas Gerais state (São José da Lapa, Matozinhos, Arcos and Limeira).
 
 
2003
Acquisition of Eurovente-Strasservil, a very successful company which has pioneered a new generation of lime-based products for the building construction market, located in Besançon, France.
 
 
2002 View
Acquisition of the lime and dolomite operations of the Heidelberg Cement Group in Gorazdze and Sabinow, Poland.
 
 
2001
Acquisition of Group Balthazard & Cotte, a well known Southern European lime producer, based in Grenoble, France.
 
 
2001 View
Acquisition of the U.S. Baker-Group. Refractory activities of Baker and Wülfrath are merged to form LWB Refractories.
 
 
2000 View
Acquisition of the lime activities of RMC Industrial Minerals in the UK. The new entity will operate under the name Lhoist UK Ltd.
 
 
2000 View
Grupo Calider acquires the local lime producer Caleras Fernandez, located near Guadalajara city, in south-western Mexico.
 
 
1999 View
The acquisition of APG Lime, and a joint venture with Calider, Mexico, further strengthen the Group's presence in major lime consuming regions of the Southeast United States.
 
 
1999 View
The Group strengthens its dolomitic refractory division by forming Wülfrath Refractories, a merger of Lhoist Réfractaires, acquired in 1993, with Wülfrather Feuerfest, a former division of RKW.
 
 
1999 View
Acquisition of Rheinische Kalksteinwerke Wülfrath (RKW), Germany. RWK and RKW activities are merged into a new company : Rheinkalk.
 
 
1996 View
Lhoist continues its Eastern European expansion by acquiring lime operations at Bukowa and, in 1998, at Opolwap in Poland.
 
 
1995 View
Construction of the Group's largest US plant at St. Genevieve, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi river.
 
 
1993 View
Joint venture with RWK Kalk, Germany.
 
 
1992 View
The purchase of Vápenka Certovy Schody (VCS) in the Czech Republic paves the way for the Group's entry into Eastern Europe.
 
 
1981 View
Lhoist enters the US market through its acquisition of a stake in Chemical Lime in Texas. The Group expands into the West with the purchase of Genstar's lime division in 1996, and into the Southeast with the acquisition of Allied Lime in 1989.
 
 
1926 View
The establishment of Carrières et Fours à Chaux de Dugny, in France, marks the start of Lhoist's international expansion.
 
 
1924 View
Léon Lhoist, Hippolyte's son-in-law, sets up Etablissements Léon Lhoist at Jemelle, Belgium.
 
 
1889 View
Hippolyte Dumont establishes Carrières et Fours à Chaux Dumont-Wautier, at Hermalle in Belgium.