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Blue Circle Industries was a British public company manufacturing cement. [1] It was founded in 1900 as the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. through the fusion of 24 cement works, mostly around on the Thames and Medway estuaries, together having around a 70% market share of the British cement market.
UK Covid-19 Inquiry: Office of Prime Minister Baroness Hallett: 12/05/2021 covid19.public-inquiry.uk: The inquiry is set to "examine the UK's response to and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and learn lessons for the future". [24] [25] Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry: BEIS: Sir Wyn Williams: 19/05/2021 postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk
Hanson Cement held an open day at the Ketton production facility every year in July. [4] In 2013 Lark Energy built a solar power farm on land reclaimed from a 1940s quarry. The second phase was opened in 2015 by Secretary of State for Energy Amber Rudd. [5] The solar farm provides 13% of the cement works' annual energy consumption. [6]
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RMC Group plc (formerly "Ready Mixed Concrete Limited") was a ready mixed concrete, quarrying and concrete products company headquartered in Egham, United Kingdom.It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, but was acquired by Cemex of Mexico in 2005.
After extensive privatisation of the public sector during the Margaret Thatcher administration, there remain few statutory corporations in the UK. Privatisation began in the late 1970s, and notable privatisations include the Central Electricity Generating Board, British Rail, and more recently Royal Mail.
The COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium will deliver large-scale, rapid whole genome sequencing of the virus that causes the disease and £260 million to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations to support vaccine development. [142] [143] In April, the UK Government launched a task force to help develop and roll out a coronavirus vaccine.
The coronavirus is putting Egypt's private cement industry under even more pressure. Already scrambling to respond to competition from a vast new factory owned by the military, the pandemic has ...