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Materials & Monolithics

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Materials & Monolithics

The Materials & Monolithics business group offers its customers innovative products:
  • Building Materials: clay roof tiles and bricks and natural slate,
  • Refractory Solutions: monolithic silicoaluminous refractories and industrial firing equipment.

The Materials & Monolithics business group gathers the Building Materials and Refractory Solutions Group's activities.

A high-quality, specialized offer

With its quality deposits and optimized industrial assets, the Building Materials activity is France's largest producer of clay roof tiles, bricks and chimney blocks. Imerys also contributes to the development of renewable energies, particularly in photovoltaic tiles.

The Refractory Solutions are composed of Calderys activities – worldwide leader in alumino-silicate refractories used in the high-temperature industries (steelmaking, casting, aluminum, cement, energy, petrochemicals and incineration) – and of the Imerys Kiln Furniture activities, mainly used in ceramics and roof tiles production.

Front-rank market positions

  • French #1 for natural slates
  • French #1 for clay roof tiles, bricks, chimney blocks
  • World #1 in alumino-silicate monolithic refractories
  • World #1 in kiln furniture for roofing tiles


Sales 2012969 M

Employees 20123,998

Industrial sites41

Countries17




Imerys is present in 50 countries with more than 250 industrial sites.

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