32 Business View Caribbean - January 2015
Building Jamaica
Caribbean Cement mixes local ingredients with service culture
When you’ve been around more than 60 years, the
words “iconic” and “institution” often apply.
That’s surely the case with Caribbean Cement, the
Jamaican-based producer of high-quality Portland ce-
ment whose emergence from humble beginnings has
yielded multiple upticks in production capacity, a work-
force of more than 300 employees and a significant
presence in the regional export market.
The company was initially established by local entre-
preneurs whose aim was to use resources indigenous
to the island nation to produce cement, which would
provide an alternative to the cement being imported at
the time whose quality was not consistent. The opera-
tion’s evolution was in tandem with the growth of the
country – resulting in the doubling of capacity in both
1956 and 1964, installation of a pyroprocessing line
and solid fuel facilities in 1983 and a $200 million
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