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Ketton Cement Works is a large cement plant and quarry based in the village of Ketton in the county of Rutland in the United Kingdom. Now owned by HeidelbergCement, the plant produces around one tenth of the UK's Portland Cement needs. Ketton works employs around 220 people. [citation needed]
Pages in category "Cement companies of the United Kingdom" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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.
At that time, the works was producing 1,580,000 tonnes (1,740,000 tons) of cement per year. [27] When the plant was hived off into its own company (Hope Construction Materials, which also operated other quarries) its market share of UK cement consumption was 12% (2012). [28] By 2018, the market share was 15%, though the market fluctuates. [29]
The group has ventured into cement and concrete products, container glass, general insurance, radiators, plastics, [1] hotels, and real estate. It was formed by Seán Quinn in 1973, developing from a small quarrying operation in Derrylin into a large organization, employing over 8,000 people in various locations throughout Europe.
Cement companies of the United Kingdom (13 P) Pages in category "Building materials companies of the United Kingdom" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
Furthermore, UK real estate developers even started to allow customers to walk-through apartments even before they are built. [9] According to the latest report by Zoopla, an online real estate portal based in London, Falkirk, Scotland, is the fastest-moving real estate market in the U.K., with homes selling in 20 days on average.
In February 2011, cement company Lafarge and mining company Anglo American agreed to merge their British construction materials businesses. [1] Due to the size of the venture, the Office of Fair Trading referred it to the UK's Competition Commission, who concluded in May 2012 that, because of the potential loss of competition in the aggregates, asphalt, cement and ready-mix concrete markets ...