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Aberthaw Cement Works

Lafarge Cement UK bought Blue Circle industries PLC in 2001, creating the largest cement maker in the world.

ACC Limited

In 1936 ten cement companies belonging to Tatas, Khataus, Killick Nixon and F E Dinshaw groups merged to form a single entity, The Associated Cement Companies.

Alfredo Fortabat

The 1926 discovery of large limestone deposits at the San Jacinto Estancia inherited from his father led Fortabat to open a cement factory in the nearby pampas hamlet of Loma Negra (south of Olavarría); the choice of location prompted him to christen the company Loma Negra ("Black Mound").

Arabian Cement Co.

These included an expansion of ACC's cement plants in Libda and Zliten, valued at $242 million and $169 million respectively.

Aspdin

William Aspdin (1815-1864), English cement manufacturer - son of the above

Bamberton, British Columbia

The demand for cement in the building boom of the times outstripped the capacity of the Tod Inlet operation and leading the company to construct a further plant at Bamberton which opened in 1912 under the name Associated Cement Company.

Beacon Wood Country Park

However, land owners Lafarge Cement UK, have entered into a five-year management partnership with Ground Kent and Medway and Bean Parish Council.

Building and Road Research Institute

The institute in the 1990s begun researching into Pozzolana cement, an alternative cement to the Portland cement for building.

Burwell Tramway

As well as serving Fisons chemical (fertilizer) works, the line also served the adjacent Burwell Brick Company brickworks, a cement works, and local fruit growers and farmers.

Caesium-137

In 2009, a Chinese cement company (in Tongchuan, Shaanxi Province) was demolishing an old, unused cement plant and did not follow standards for handling radioactive materials.

Carbon Trust

Examples of products featuring their carbon footprint in the UK are Walkers Crisps, a range of own brand products in Tesco supermarkets, Halifax (HBOS) bank accounts, Dyson airblades, Marshalls building products, Kingsmill bread, Quaker oats, Silver Spoon sugar, Tate & Lyle sugar and La Farge cement.

Cement chemist notation

The phase composition of a particular cement can be quantified through a complex set of calculation known as the Bogue Formula.

Cement Corporation of India

The Kurkunta cement plant is located at a distance of around 60 kilometers from the region of Gulbarga near the Kurkunta railway station.

CGS Aberdeen

The ship had about 500 bags of cement destined for the Cape Sable Light aboard, and also drums of calcium carbide, that caused much concern (as it reacts with water to form the flammable gas acetylene).

Charles M. Braga Jr. Memorial Bridge

This was never as apparent as in March, 1999, when cement acoustical tiles under nearby Fall River Government Center closed the highway for a week at the end of the bridge, causing traffic nightmares for the entire region.

Ciments français

Ciments français (english "French Cement") is a French based manufacturer of cement and has been a subsidiary of Italcementi Group since 1992.

Clarkson, Mississauga

a Holcim Canada (formerly St. Lawrence Cement) Cement plant, which distributes cement via truck throughout Toronto.

Confidence Group

Confidence Cement Limited manufactures of Portland cement in Bangladesh.It claims, on its own website, that it is in the “Top 20 Best Performing Companies” list consistently for over a decade.

David Erb

In 2008, Dave Erb became the 29th jockey to add his handprint and signature in cement to the "Gallup to Glory" display at the Galt House hotel in Louisville, Kentucky.

Dawson Massacre

These remains and the remains of the men killed in the failed Mier Expedition were reinterred in a common tomb in a cement vault on a bluff one mile south of La Grange.

Dibba Al-Hisn

November 19, 1980: Sheikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi laid the foundation stone for the AED 350 million Fujairah Cement Factory in Dibba Al-Fujairah.

Frans Kannik

He made numerous Sculptures in Plastic, Gypsum, Cement, Foamrubber and the like, but all the sculptures and materials from the installations were destroyed after the end of the exhibition.

Friedel's salt

Stanislas Sorel, a French engineer who made a new form of cement from a combination of magnesium oxide and magnesium chloride

Galong, New South Wales

A kiln was built at the mine in 2003/04 to allow the production of quicklime for use in cement.

Górażdże

Currently it is still operated and is part of the Górażdże Group S.A. which is the Polish leader in the cement, concrete, and aggregates production.

Hans Smidth

Smidth was the son of the city bailiff of Skive, Edvard Philip Smidth, and the brother of Verner Frederik Læssøe Smidth who founded the cement concern F. L. Smidth & Co.

Harbour Centre

The Vancouver Lookout tourist attraction, located atop the Harbour Centre business building, was officially opened on August 13, 1977 by Neil Armstrong, whose footprint was imprinted onto cement and was on display on the viewing/observation deck until it was lost (or stolen) during renovations.

Henry Louis Le Chatelier

For example, he was a consulting engineer for a cement company, the Société des chaux et ciments Pavin de Lafarge, today known as Lafarge Cement.

Interail

In September 1997 Northern Rivers Railroad commenced operating cement and flyash trains from Grafton to Casino and Murwillumbah under sub-contract to FreightCorp.

Jai Balaji group

It also has plans to set up a Mega Steel, Cement and Power Project at Raghunathpur.

John Kourkouas

Although such a union would effectively cement the loyalty of the army, it would also strengthen the position of the legitimate Macedonian line, represented by Constantine VII, over the imperial claims of Romanos's own sons.

La Salette of Roxas

A giant rosary with beads made up of cement is situated here, and a shrine for Our Lady of La Salette in a center of a gazeebo.

Langwathby

At Barbary Plains just outside Edenhall there was formerly a cement block works formerly owned by Hanson plc but now owned by RMC Group, part of Cemex.

Magnesium oxide wallboard

However, New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge base is made from locally mined cement, a mixture of calcium oxide and magnesia cement commonly called Rosendale Natural Cement, the only natural non-fired cement made in the US.

Mário Crespo

He transferred to Mozambique where his military occupation was to check the cement cargoes from Beira to the Cahora Bassa Dam construction site, near Tete.

Max Myanmar

On 23 September 2009, Delta United FC (now Ayeyawady United F.C.), owned by Max Cement (a subsidiary of Max Myanmar), was involved in a controversial win against Yadanabon F.C., whose fans accused Zaw Zaw of unfairly influencing the referee during the match.

Metaconglomerate

The cement matrix of conglomerate is not as durable as the grains, and hence when broken, conglomerate breaks around the grains.

Nejo

In his travel book, In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Tahir Shah described Nejo in the late 20th century as a town with "a muddy main street", lined with "buildings with corrugated iron roofs and cement walls".

Neubeckum station

Its purpose is mainly to bring high-purity limestone from the Warstein limestone quarries to the cement plants to the north at Ennigerloh.

Nouakchott

Salt, cement, insecticides, rugs, carpets, embroidery, and craft products are produced in Nouakchott, with the port also exporting copper.

Oglesby, Illinois

It was originally called Portland, due to the cement mined and manufactured in the area that was similar to Portland Cement from England.

Permanente Creek

Bess Kaiser and her spouse, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, had a lodge on the creek's headwaters above the large Permanente Quarry and Cement Plant, and, in 1945, Bess felt that the name of their attractive and dependable stream would be a good name for their medical program at the shipyards.

Rosenheim–Kufstein railway

Another narrow gauge line, the Wachtl Railway, still connects the cement plant near Kiefersfelden station with limestone quarries at Wachtl, just inside Austria in the municipality of Thiersee.

Russell Dumas

Dumas was responsible for extensive land development in the district governed by the Albany Zone Development Committee, and negotiated the establishment of an oil refinery, steel rolling mill and cement works at Kwinana.

Screed

In the UK, screed has also come to describe a thin, top layer of material (traditionally sand and cement), poured in site on top of the structural concrete or insulation, on top of which other finishing materials can be applied, or it can be left bare to achieve an effect similar to that in buildings by Tadao Ando.

Sorel cement

Sorel cement (also known as magnesia cement) is a non-hydraulic cement first produced by Frenchman Stanislas Sorel in 1867.

South African Class NG6 4-4-0

Known users were, amongst others, Premier Portland Cement in Bulawayo, the Rhodesian Native Timber Concessions at Gwaai, the Cam and Motor Mine at Gatooma, the Selukwe Peak Light Railway of the Selukwe Chrome Mine, the Lupane Forest Estates, the Igusi Saw Mills and the Arcturus Mine east of Salisbury, all these in Rhodesia.

Søren Kristian Toubro

As an employee of F. L. Smidth & Co. of Copenhagen, he came to India in 1934 to erect and commission the equipment supplied to the Madukkarai Cement Works (near Coimbatore) and the Rohri Cement Factory (near the Sukkur Barrage in Sindh).

Spencer House, London

The house was commissioned by John, 1st Earl Spencer in 1756, the Earl requiring a large London house to cement his position and status.


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