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Bags of Lafarge cement with the Blue Circle logo. Lafarge is a French industrial company specialising in cement, construction aggregates, and concrete. It is the world's largest cement manufacturer. It was founded in 1833 by Joseph-Auguste Pavin de Lafarge and is a part of the Holcim Group.
Holcim operates four businesses segments: cement, aggregates, ready-mix concrete, and other products, including precast concrete, asphalt, mortar, and other building materials. Originally, the company was established as LafargeHolcim by the merger on 10 July 2015 of Holcim and Lafarge, which had combined sales of CHF 26.7 billion in 2019. [3]
The village of Ravena is home to a Holcim (Formerly Lafarge) Cement Plant. The plant was originally Atlantic Cement, but was bought out in the early 2000s. [10] On July 11, 2008, the Albany Times Union reported that Holcim's (Formerly Lafarge) Ravena plant "was the greatest source of mercury emissions in New York from 2004 to 2006". [11]
The plant would feed the major industrial development that’s coming near New Carlisle. A special use variance comes to the county council on April 9.
In February 2015, Lafarge announced it had reached an agreement to sell the company to CRH plc, with the exception of its Cauldon cement plant. [12] Anglo American sold its 50% stake to Lafarge first, [13] for £992 million ($1.55 billion), [14] in order to allow CRH to buy the complete business. CRH completed the purchase in August 2015.
In February 2011, cement company Lafarge and mining company Anglo American agreed to merge their British construction materials businesses. [1] Due to the size of the venture, the Office of Fair Trading referred it to the UK's Competition Commission, who concluded in May 2012 that, because of the potential loss of competition in the aggregates, asphalt, cement and ready-mix concrete markets ...
A 1924 issue of Concrete magazine said that the operation at 1000 La Brea Ave. appeared to be "the pioneer mixing plant in the West," the first of its kind offering "ready-mixed Portland cement ...
In July 2014, Bestway acquired Lafarge's 75.86 percent stake in Lafarge Pakistan Cement Ltd for an enterprise value of US$329 million (€244 million). [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Lafarge Pakistan Cement Ltd operated a cement plant in the north of Pakistan which was established as Chakwal Cement, but was later acquired by Orascom in 2005, an Egyptian ...