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HeidelbergCement

Heidelberg Materials is an integrated manufacturer of building materials and solutions in the market for cement, aggregates, and ready-mixed concrete. Its products and services are used in the construction of houses, infrastructure, commercial and industrial facilities. Heidelberg has more than 51,000 employees at almost 3,000 sites in over 50 countries, and earned USD 21.1 billion in revenue in 2022.

Summary

Heidelberg Cement ranks 47th overall and 27th in the Extractives sector. It has improved its sector rank by 10 places since 2019.

In the last five years, the company has allocated senior level responsibility for implementing its human rights policy commitments. It has also made its grievance mechanism available for individuals and communities outside of its own workforce. It now discloses how it assesses which human rights risks are most salient for the business.

The company has an opportunity to improve on topics related to board level accountability, including disclosing how it assigns responsibility for human rights, whether it has board level incentives for human rights performance, and how it reviews its business model and strategy for human rights risks. It could also disclose its system for preventing or mitigating its salient human rights risks.

Ranking position: #47 /110
Total score: 21.5 /100

Measurement theme	Score	Rank (0-110)
Governance and policy commitments	#1 1.9 /10	#60
Embedding respect and human rights due diligence	#1 5.6 /25	#52
Remedies and grievance mechanisms	#1 5.5 /20	#36
Performance: Practices	#1 4.2 /25	#53
Performance: Responses	#1 4.3 /20	#31

Sector
Extractives	#27

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