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Portland cement had been imported into the United States from Germany and England, and in the 1870s and 1880s, it was being produced by Eagle Portland cement near Kalamazoo, Michigan. In 1875, the first portland cement was produced in the Coplay Cement Company Kilns under the direction of David O. Saylor in Coplay, Pennsylvania. [11]
California Portland Cement was again accused of conspiring to fix cement prices in a 1980 lawsuit, along with about 50 other defendants. The company denied any illegal activity, but paid a $6.5 million settlement for the claims, which related to the years 1968 to 1976. [7]
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.
The plant at Clarkdale in 2013. The Phoenix Cement Company, headquartered in Phoenix, operates a cement plant in Clarkdale in the U.S. state of Arizona.Built in 1959 by the American Cement Company to make cement for construction of the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River, the Clarkdale plant produces Portland cement, fly ash, and gypsum for a regional market.
It was the largest US-owned cement company until it was acquired in 2018 by CRH plc, a global building materials business headquartered in Ireland. [1] The company was established in 1882 at Ash Grove, Missouri, as the Ash Grove White Lime Association. It commenced cement manufacture in 1908, with a plant at Chanute, Kansas. It now has cement ...
Allentown Portland Cement Company was a manufacturer of Portland and mortar cement. The firm was founded in 1906 and completed its first plant in Evansville, Pennsylvania , in 1910. In 1953 it acquired Valley Forge Cement Company, and in 1960 it was itself acquired by National Gypsum Company .
Pages in category "Cement companies of the United States" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Edison was developing an iron ore milling process and discovered a market in the sale of waste sand to cement manufacturers. He decided to set up his own cement company, founding it in New Village, New Jersey in 1899, and went on to supply the concrete for the construction of Yankee Stadium in 1922.