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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 ...
In 2019, Southern Star sold their Arkansas assets to SRM Concrete, a privately-owned materials supply company based out of Nashville, Tennessee. Then in 2021, Argos sold the Dallas/Fort Worth portion of Southern Star to SRM Concrete. Argos currently only operates the Houston area Southern Star locations.
Mass concrete is defined by American Concrete Institute Committee 207 as "any volume of concrete with dimensions large enough to require that measures be taken to cope with the generation of heat from the hydration of cement and attendant volume change to minimize cracking."
In the American oil industry, a sack represents the amount of portland cement that occupies 1.15 cubic feet (8.6 US gal; 33 L), and in most cases weighs 94 pounds (43 kg). [8] Other uses in the US include the measurement by volume of salt, where one sack is 215 pounds (98 kg), cotton where one sack is 140 pounds (63.5 kg) and flour, where one ...
In June 2021, Vulcan Materials announced they would be acquiring US Concrete (USCR) for $74 per share, a 30% premium on the date of the announcement. U.S. Concrete was formed in 1999, with its headquarters in Euless, TX. The deal is valued at $1.3 billion.
In 1940, Marquette Cement purchased Hawkeye Portland Cement Company; in 1947, it bought both the Cumberland Portland Cement Company and the Hermitage Portland Cement Company. 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.
Everilda Cux-Ajtzalam, from Houston, told police she “had no choice” but to put her baby boy in the dumpster because she was concerned that her boyfriend would break up with her, according to ...
Cement powder in a bag, ready to be mixed with aggregates and water. [1] Cement block construction examples from the Multiplex Manufacturing Company of Toledo, Ohio, in 1905. A cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together.