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  2. Blue Circle Industries - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Hope Cement Works - Wikipedia

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    At that time, the works was producing 1,580,000 tonnes (1,740,000 tons) of cement per year. [27] When the plant was hived off into its own company (Hope Construction Materials, which also operated other quarries) its market share of UK cement consumption was 12% (2012). [28] By 2018, the market share was 15%, though the market fluctuates. [29]

  4. Barnstone - Wikipedia

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    There is a Blue Circle cement works based in Barnstone. The first lime kiln was erected in 1864. Cement manufacture began on the site in 1885, when the first rotary kiln was installed. Sixteen bottle kilns followed in 1886. Barnstone later specialised in manufacturing cements for the mining industry.

  5. Portland House, Aldermaston - Wikipedia

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    Portland House is an office building in Aldermaston, Berkshire, UK.It was designed by Richard Gilbert Scott (1923-2017), the architect son of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.It was one of the buildings he was most proud of, and in his last years was distressed to learn it was under threat.

  6. British quarrying and mining narrow-gauge railways - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Lafarge (company) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Swanscombe - Wikipedia

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    James Frost opened a works at Swanscombe in 1825, using chalk from Galley Hill, having patented a new cement called British Cement. The Swanscombe plant was subsequently acquired by John Bazley White & Co, which became the largest component of Blue Circle Industries when it formed in 1900. It finally shut down in 1990.

  9. Aberthaw Cement Works - Wikipedia

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    Lafarge Cement UK bought Blue Circle industries PLC in 2001, creating the largest cement maker in the world. Cement from the site is carried to destinations by Road and Rail (rail services being provided by Freightliner heavy haul and Colas Rail over the Vale of Glamorgan Line). In July 2020, it was observed that Aberthaw cement in bulk was ...

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