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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 ...
Southern Star Concrete, Inc. or simply Southern Star is a concrete supply business headquartered in Irving, Texas. Southern Star is owned by Cementos Argos S.A. , the largest cement producer in Colombia , South America .
Table 5 - Hydraulic Cement – production – North America, South America, and Caribbean (thousand metric tons) [5] Country: 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006
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 ...
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."
The Port of Houston is a major point of international trade for the United States. The following is the trade volume by world region reported by the Greater Houston Partnership as of 2006. [19] Europe 31%; Latin America 22%; Asia/Pacific Rim 15%; North America 13%; Middle East 7%; Africa 12%
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 ...
Midlothian is a city in northwest Ellis County, Texas, United States.The city is 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Dallas.It is the hub for the cement industry in North Texas, as it is the home to three separate cement production facilities, as well as a steel mill.