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On December 27, 1901, 30 gypsum and plaster companies merged to form the United States Gypsum Company (USG), resulting in the creation of the first nationwide gypsum company in the United States. The new company combined the operations of 37 mining and calcining plants producing agricultural and construction plaster. [12]
111 South Wacker Drive is a high-rise office building located in Chicago, Illinois. Completed in 2005 and standing at 681 feet (208 m), the 51 story blue-glass structure is one of the tallest in the city. It sits on the site of the former U.S. Gypsum Building, one of the tallest buildings in Chicago to be demolished.
In 1894, his father gave him a role in managing a gypsum plant in a small town in Michigan. Avery changed the name to Alabaster Company, after the town, because he liked the sound of it. This was one of several companies that in 1901 became part of the consolidated gypsum concern United States Gypsum Company. Then working as a sales manager in ...
(The Center Square) – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a $17 million lawsuit Tuesday against a northern Ohio company that dates back six decades. The lawsuit says the United States Gypsum ...
United States v. United States Gypsum Co. was a patent–antitrust case in which the United States Supreme Court decided, first, in 1948, [1] that a patent licensing program that fixed prices of many licensees and regimented an entire industry violated the antitrust laws, and then, decided in 1950, [2] after a remand, that appropriate relief in such cases did not extend so far as to permit ...
In 2023, 71 percent of lime and gypsum imports to the U.S. came from Mexico, according to the National Association of Home Builders. Lime is a key ingredient in mortar and other construction ...
United States Gypsum Corporation began mining gypsum in the community in 1902. [5] In 1918, the company built a wallboard-paper mill there. [ 6 ] In the 1970s, after switched to processing synthetic gypsum, the company abandoned the mine, which eventually flooded.
USG Corporation (formerly United States Gypsum Corporation), a construction materials manufacturer U.S. Gauge, a division of Ametek , manufacturer of pressure and temperature measurement products Education