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In December 2020, Boral sold Midland Brick to the Buckeridge Group of Companies. [10] This followed Boral selling its bricks business on Australia's east coast in 2016. In April 2021, Boral divested its plasterboard business, completing the process with the sale of its 50 per cent interest in the USG Boral joint venture to Knauf for US$1 ...
Boral operated an adjoining quarry from the 1970s until 2014. [6] The Bombo disaster. The basalt quarry at Bombo was the site of a serious accident on 7 May 1888 ...
1991 – The operating plant was old and getting less efficient and the production of cement ceased in November although the limestone quarries remained open, and some crushing equipment, for supplying the cement works at Maldon. [22] 1992 – Blue Circle Southern Cement taken over by Boral.
L.A. firefighters look for hot spots as they prepare for high winds in the burn areas of the Palisades fire on Tuesday, Jan. 14. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)
The Reel Inn, one of the Pacific Coast Highway's most iconic landmarks, burned in the fires, according to a GoFundMe page shared by the restaurant's social media and its owners.
Tiger Woods took to social media on Tuesday to address the concerning situation surrounding the deadly wildfires in the Los Angeles area. "The devastation that is ongoing with the LA fires is such ...
Lafarge was founded in 1833 [5] by Joseph-Auguste Pavin de Lafarge in Le Teil, France , to exploit the limestone quarry in Mont Saint-Victor between Le Teil and Viviers. The limestone is white and argillaceous, and yielded an eminently hydraulic lime.
The quarry is estimated to contain a deposit of 25 million tons of gypsum. [26] [27] USG operates an active narrow gauge railway, the last industrial narrow gauge railway in the United States. [28] [29] The 3 ft (914 mm) gauge line runs north for 26 miles (42 km) from the plant at Plaster City (formerly known as Maria) to the gypsum