CEMEX is a growing global building solutions company that provides products of consistently high quality and reliable service to customers and communities in more than 50 countries across five continents. It owns 67 cement plants worldwide with an annual production capacity of more than 96 million tons of cement (aend of 2007). Being the only cement manufacturing plant of CEMEX in Egypt, Assiut Cement (Assiut), located in Assiyut (500km south of Cairo), is capable of producing up to 5 million tons of cement annually (end of 2007).