The combination of blast furnace slag, resulting from the steelmaking process, and limestone extracted from the mines, places CSN among the most competitive cement players from Brazil. CSN Cimentos has been operating in this sector since 2009 with the grinding plant in Volta Redonda. In 2011, the first clinker production line was installed in Arcos (MG). In 2015, two new cement mills came into operation and, in 2016, a new clinker line, adding 2.4 million tons per year of cement production capacity. In 2021, the acquisition of Elizabeth Cements S.A, located in Alhandra (PB), was completed, an integrated plant with an installed capacity of 1.3 million tons per year. Yet, in 2022 the Company leaped from the seventh to the second largest producer of this input in the country with the acquisition of all the Brazilian operations of the Franco-Swiss company LafargeHolcim.