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  2. List of countries by cement production - Wikipedia

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    Table 3 - Hydraulic Cement – production – Asia and The Pacific (thousand metric tons) [3] Country 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 Afghanistan 37 38 36 50 50 50 — — 120 120 120 120 120 116 116 116 116 Australia 8,600 8,600 9,000 9,200 9,400 9,500 9,000 8,000 8,000 8,000 7,550 7,500 7,500

  3. Cement - Wikipedia

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    As at year-end 2012, the global cement industry consisted of 5673 cement production facilities, including both integrated and grinding, of which 3900 were located in China and 1773 in the rest of the world. Total cement capacity worldwide was recorded at 5245 Mt in 2012, with 2950 Mt located in China and 2295 Mt in the rest of the world. [5]

  4. Cement industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Cement manufacture is a source of the following airborne contaminants: particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide. [3] Cement production releases carbon dioxide by sintering limestone or shells. It is also very energy-intensive, with the result that the cement industry is a large emitter of carbon ...

  5. Portland cement - Wikipedia

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    The cement is conveyed by belt or powder pump to a silo for storage. Cement plants normally have sufficient silo space for one to 20 weeks of production, depending upon local demand cycles. The cement is delivered to end users either in bags, or as bulk powder blown from a pressure vehicle into the customer's silo.

  6. CalPortland Company - Wikipedia

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    A third cement plant, in Mojave, California, began production in 1956. [4] In 1960, California Portland Cement reported net income of $7.3 million ($75.2 million in 2023). The following year, it formed a new subsidiary in Phoenix, Arizona Sand & Rock Company, to manufacture prestressed and ready-mixed concrete.

  7. Cement kiln - Wikipedia

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    Cement kilns are used for the pyroprocessing stage of manufacture of portland and other types of hydraulic cement, in which calcium carbonate reacts with silica-bearing minerals to form a mixture of calcium silicates. Over a billion tonnes of cement are made per year, and cement kilns are the heart of this production process: their capacity ...

  8. List of companies and cities in Africa that manufacture cement

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    Ethiopia has 20 cement factories which produce mainly OPC and PPC cement. Two other cement factories are in the pipeline. As of 2017, production capacity in Ethiopian, according to the Ethiopian Reporter, [12] has increased to 15 million tonnes per year, but local consumption is only 6 million tonnes per year.

  9. Rosendale cement - Wikipedia

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    By 1910, production dropped from a high of 8.5 million barrels a year to 1 million barrels a year, and by 1920 there was only one factory still in operation, that of A.J. Snyder. [16] One revival of the industry occurred in the mid 20th century, when A.J. Snyder began to experiment by combining natural cement with Portland cement after New York ...