Cementir Holding | CEM IM | Ciments & Agrégats | Italie | Sustainability / ESG

Score de durabilité

Société (Secteur)
2,3 (5,7)

La durabilité est constituée d'éléments analytiques contribuant au E, au S et au G, qui peuvent être mis en évidence comme précurseurs de la durabilité et peuvent être combinés de manière satisfaisante.

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	Score	Poids

Gouvernance
Taux de membres indépendants du Conseil d'Administration	0/10	25 %	More ...
Diversité géographique du Conseil d'Administration	0/10	20 %
Fonction de Chairman distincte de l’exécutif		5 %

Environnement
Emissions CO²	2/10	25 %	More ...
Prélèvement d'eau	4/10	10 %

Social
Évolution de la dispersion des salaires	7/10	5 %	More ...
Satisfaction au travail	10/10	5 %
Communication interne	10/10	5 %

Score de durabilité

2,3/10

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Sustainability matters

The Building materials and products sector scores low on the sustainability front (average score of 5.2/10), primarily because of: 1/ a low environment score as this industry is one of the largest polluters, contributing 5% to global emissions, and 2/ a significant number of companies in this sector are family owned, a factor which has a significant influence on the composition of the board, voting rights and the executive role of the chairman of the board. Cementir Holding’s low independent directors rate (score: 0/10), lack of geographic diversity at the board level (score: 0/10) along with high emissions (score: 2/10) are the key reasons for its low sustainability score of 2.3.

Score d'Environnement

Société (Secteur)
2,6 (4,5)

Ensembles de données évalués en tant que tendances sur un calendrier glissant, en fonction du secteur

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Paramètres	Score	Secteur	Poids
Emissions CO²	2/10	4/10	30 %
Prélèvement d'eau	4/10	5/10	30 %
Energie	2/10	4/10	25 %
Déchets	2/10	5/10	15 %
Score d'Environnement	2,6		100%

Environment matters

Sustainability at its core in this decade

Tightened regulations by policymakers meant to reduce carbon emissions pose a big challenge over the next few years for cement companies as it puts a lid on the growth opportunities that have come along with various stimuli announced by governments worldwide. The cement industry is expected to be heavily impacted by the increasing carbon certificate prices and reducing carbon allowance in Phase IV (2021-30) of the EU Emission Trading System (ETS) which allows companies to trade excess emission rights freely. These will drastically increase the production cost. The cement industry is a capital-intensive industry with low price elasticity. Hence, cost-cutting and efficiency will be key drivers for profitability, while revolving around sustainability.

Greater the emission = greater the scope of improvement

A few players have already reduced their carbon footprint significantly, leading them to a carbon level of <600kg CO2/t of cementitious material. Holcim currently leads the race with 2020 emissions standing at 555kg/t, while Cementir Holding is the laggard with emissions in 2020 standing at 718kg/t. However, Cementir Holding holds this title not for long because its aims to cut its emission level by 20% and 31% by 2025 and 2030, respectively (from the 2020 emission level). At first glance, one may believe that the emission reduction targets are too aggressive. We thought so too. But in reality, the targets are quite achievable as about 2/3rds of the set targets for 2025 and 2030 will be met in the EU via the existing technologies and the investments that the company has planned for 2021-23. We would like to highlight two key contributors: FUTURECEM™ and kiln upgradation in Belgium.

We appreciate this effort and, hence, in our environment scoring system, we score the companies based on their efforts and progress, rather than just considering sector thematics. Cementir Holding currently has a low score but, given its strong balance sheet (net cash position from 2023 onwards), it is possible for Cementir Holding to boost its capex, accelerate emission reduction and offset its additional carbon-related costs by lower financial expenses, thus improving its score and, consequently, our DCF value which has a sustainability component.

Arbitrage opportunity from Turkey

Beyond the assumptions that we have already made, there is a possibility of imports from Turkey too. In 2021, the European Commission announced the much-anticipated Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which is aimed at curtailing carbon leakage. However, CBAM will be in a transitional phase from 2023 to 2025 and will become fully operational only by 2026. So, until then, Cementir Holding will be able to capitalise on its Izmir plant in Turkey, which has a capacity of 2.6mt, with only about 0.7mt exported up to now. So, if we consider that just 1mt of cement per annum will be exported from Turkey to the EU until 2025, and the additional cost of transportation is estimated at €20/t, it will lower our estimated carbon cost by €100m to €360m over 2022-30. This estimated carbon cost is far below the one that we calculated using the group’s guidance of 600,000t worth of carbon rights needed to be bought from 2022 onwards. While the group has a more sophisticated model in place with the active management of the rights integrated in the model, the difference of €100m is too big for us to ignore.

Paramètres environnementaux

29 963 Energy (GJ) per €m in capital employed	6 141 CO² tons per €m in capital employed	6 935 Cubic meter water withdrawal per €m in capital employed	268 Tons waste generated per €m in capital employed

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Données sectorielles

Société	Score d'Environnement	Energie (totale, GJ)	Emissions CO2 (tonnes)	Prélèvement d'eau (m3)	Déchets (total, tonnes)

Belimo^BH	10/10	38 520	1 320	11 984	1 048
Buzzi	4/10	115 607 000	22 186 000	8 239 000	174 700
Cementir Holding^CR	3/10	42 319 799	8 673 982	9 795 000	378 400
CRH	3/10	205 200 000	36 000 000	116 300 000	2 100 000
dormakaba^BH	8/10	909 266	74 770	841 474	36 685
Forbo^BH	8/10	1 161 978	56 753	1 300 000	33 992
Geberit^BH	9/10	2 790 000	217 009	925 230	74 989
Heidelberg Materials	3/10	363 226 000	69 400 000	314 600 000	1 276 700
Holcim	4/10	579 000 000	116 000 000	140 000 000	1 890 000
Imerys	3/10	32 720 360	2 448 000	57 253 000	166 173
Saint-Gobain	5/10	156 459 600	10 300 000	48 100 000	1 413 000
Sika^BH	9/10	4 163 000	315 576	3 606 168	151 560
Vicat	3/10	84 417 600	18 700 000	18 000 000

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Social score

Société (Secteur)
7,0 (7,1)

Social matters

Overall, Cementir Holding has an average social score but it is worth mentioning that it has a favourable wage dispersion trend, which means that the company is putting in sufficient efforts to keep the wage disparity of the top management with the rest of the workforce low.

Paramètres Quantitatifs (67 %)

Ensemble de mesures numériques liées au personnel, disponibles dans le modèle propriétaire AlphaValue, visant à établir un classement sur les questions sociales et de ressources humaines.

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Paramètres	Score	Poids
Evolution du personnel total	5/10	15 %
Evolution du salaire moyen	8/10	30 %
Part de la valeur ajoutée absorbée par les frais de personnel	4/10	20 %
Part de la valeur ajoutée absorbée par les impôts	7/10	15 %
Évolution de la dispersion des salaires	7/10	20 %
Bonus Effectif et Retraites (0 ou 1)	0
Quantitative score	6,4/10	100%

Paramètres Qualitatifs (33 %)

Ensemble de critères qualitatifs, à cocher par l'analyste

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Paramètres	Score	Poids
Accidents du travail	4/10	25 %
Developpement des ressources humaines	9/10	35 %
Paye	10/10	20 %
Satisfaction au travail	10/10	10 %
Communication interne	10/10	10 %

Score Qualitatif	8,2/10	100%

Sector figures

Société	Social Score	Score Quantitatif	Score Qualitatif	Staffing

dormakaba^BH	8,5	8,1	9,7	15 479
Geberit^BH	8,4	7,7	10,0	12 168
Belimo^BH	8,3	7,6	10,0	2 108
Sika^BH	7,8	6,7	10,0	28 997
Forbo^BH	7,7	6,6	10,0	0,00
Saint-Gobain	6,9	6,7	7,9	171 126
Imerys	6,8	6,3	7,6	17 591
Heidelberg Materials	6,7	6,6	6,5	53 965
Vicat	6,5	5,2	9,3	9 842
CRH	6,3	6,7	6,2	78 222
Holcim	5,7	6,0	6,9	71 072
Buzzi	4,9	5,0	3,2	9 976

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