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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.
Ketton Cement Works is a large cement plant and quarry based in the village of Ketton in the county of Rutland in the United Kingdom. Now owned by HeidelbergCement, the plant produces around one tenth of the UK's Portland Cement needs. Ketton works employs around 220 people and is at the forefront of sustainable cement production, namely ...
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]
Pages in category "Cement companies of the United Kingdom" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Aggregate Industries, a member of the Holcim Group, is a company based in the United Kingdom with headquarters at Bardon Hill, Coalville, Leicestershire.Aggregate Industries manufactures and supplies a range of heavy building materials, primarily aggregates such as stone, asphalt and concrete to the construction industry and other business sectors.
Breedon Group plc (formerly Ennstone plc) is a British construction materials company which has its headquarters at Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire, England.It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
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.
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]