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Bags of portland cement wrapped and stacked on a pallet. Blue Circle Southern Cement works near Berrima, New South Wales, Australia. Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout.
The Oxford English Dictionary has a definition of "bag" as "A measure of quantity for produce, varying according to the nature of the commodity" and has quotations illustrating its use for hops in 1679, almonds in 1728 (where it is defined by weight as "about 3 Hundred Weight" i.e. 336 pounds (152 kg) in Imperial units) and potatoes in 1845 ...
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.
CEMEX To Increase Cement Production Capacity in the Philippines The objective is to satisfy demand in fast-growing market MONTERREY, Mexico & CEBU, Philippines--(BUSINESS WIRE) ...
The resulting hard substance, called 'clinker', is then ground with a small amount of gypsum (CaSO 4 ·2H 2 O) into a powder to make ordinary Portland cement, the most commonly used type of cement (often referred to as OPC). Portland cement is a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, and most non-specialty grout. The most common use for Portland ...
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On December 22, 1953, Marquette Cement announced it would purchase the Southern States Portland Cement Company and the Superior Cement division of the New York Coal Company. [ 6 ] On January 11, 1961, Marquette Cement shareholders approved plans to acquire North American Cement Corporation of New York for an exchange of stock. [ 7 ]
In 2013, 70.8 percent of portland cement was sold as ready-mix concrete, such as is delivered in cement-mixer trucks. 11.5 percent was sold dry to contractors and construction materials stores; 11.3 percent was sold to manufacturers of concrete products; 4.6 percent was sold for oil and gas wells, and 1.8 percent was sold to government agencies ...