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The cement plant was founded by Kaiser as the Kaiser Permanente Cement Plant in 1939, taking the name of the business from the Permanente Creek in whose valley it lies. Kaiser intended to use the quarry to provide the majority of the cement used in the construction of the Shasta Dam, supplying the 6 million barrels (950,000 m 3 ) of cement. [ 19 ]
The settlement is the site of a cement plant, opened by Kaiser Steel in 1957 and today run by the Mitsubishi Corporation. It lends its name to the Cushenbury milkvetch, the common name of Astragalus albens.
Kaiser Cement Corporation had a private spur from the line leading to their Permanente Quarry. [10] The plant remains active (though is planned to close [11]) and tracks continue to be used for freight as part of the Union Pacific Vasona Industrial Lead. [1] [12] [11] The former line is the preferred west-side routing for future VTA light rail ...
Owned and operated by Lehigh Southwest Cement, it was founded by Henry J. Kaiser as the Kaiser Permanente Cement Plant in 1939. It provided the majority of the cement used in the construction of the Shasta Dam. [citation needed] It supplied the 6 million barrels (950,000 m 3) of cement over a nine-mile (14 km)-long conveyor system.
There is “pretty much a cement plant every 250 miles in the world,” he said, and most are located near a limestone quarry. Because it works with these existing plants and uses the same ...
Kaiser Steel was a steel company and integrated steel mill near Fontana, California.Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser founded the company on December 1, 1941, and workers fired up the plant's first blast furnace, named "Big Bess" after Kaiser's wife, on December 30, 1942.
The Petoskey News-Review was on site on July 12, 1994 when the demolition of the former Penn-Dixie Cement Co. plant launched the Bay Harbor development in Emmet County.
Henry Kaiser was known for developing new methods of shipbuilding, which allowed his yards to outproduce other similar facilities and build 1,490 ships, 27 percent of the total Maritime Commission construction. Kaiser's ships were completed in two-thirds the time and a quarter the cost of the average of all other shipyards.