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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.
This acquisition was followed by the purchase of the Raymond Cement facility in 2001. [10] In 2001, Lafarge, then the world's second largest cement manufacturer, acquired Blue Circle Industries (BCI), a British company which at the time was the world's sixth largest cement manufacturer, to become the world's largest cement manufacturer. [5]
In 1979, Boral entered the United States market, purchasing a 55% shareholding in California Tile from Amalco. In February 1987 Boral purchased cement manufacturer Blue Circle Southern Cement from BHP and Blue Circle Industries. [5] [6] In 1990, Midland Brick was purchased. [7] In January 2000, Boral sold its tyre business to Bridgestone. [8]
In 1978, the company set up its first Portland cement manufacturing plant in Pending Industrial Estate, Kuching; Sarawak had previously imported Green Island cement from Hong Kong through Borneo Company Limited. [10] In 1989, CMSB became the first Sarawak company listed on Bursa Malaysia main board. [11]
The company produced cement under the brand name of "Kangaroo". The cement was of variable quality and only produced intermittently on site until production ceased in 1895. [13] The only remnants of cement production from this era are the two bottle kilns in the north-west corner of Portion 52 and the old brick building known as "Raffan's Mill ...
In addition to its cement plants, MCB operates a network of facilities comprising four grinding stations, three cement terminal facilities, two cement depots, more than 70 ready-mixed concrete batching plants, two drymix plants, and two aggregate quarries spanning Peninsular Malaysia. As of July 2024, YTL Cement is planning to acquire an 81.34% ...
Many of the cement works and their associated chalk pits had narrow gauge railways, particularly those in the South East of England. The Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. (APCM, later Blue Circle Industries, and Lafarge) was the major producer of cement in the United Kingdom in the second half of the twentieth century and many of their plants used railways.
UEM Group Berhad (UEM Group) is an investment holding company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Khazanah Nasional Berhad.. Its core businesses are Expressways (PLUS Malaysia Berhad), Township & Property Development (UEM Sunrise Berhad), Engineering & Construction (UEM Builders Berhad and Cement Industries of Malaysia Berhad or CIMA), Asset & Facility Management (UEM Edgenta Berhad) and Green ...