- Eagle materials to increase cement
capacity.
* Eagle Materials Inc., Dallas, has announced plans to expand its Mountain Cement plant in Laramie, Wyo., and its Nevada Cement plant in Fernley, Nev. According to a press release from Eagle Materials, the plans will expand the production capacity of Mountain Cement by 60 percent and double the production ......
- Cement plant inaugurated.
Cementos Dominicanos (Domicen), the largest and most modern Portland cement and clinker plant in the Caribbean region, built at a cost of over US$113.5 million by Italian and Dominican investors, was inaugurated by President Leonel Fernandez in Sabana Grande de Palenque, San Cristobal Province, reports Listin Diario (Oct. 27, 2005)....
- Cement Plants To Expand Capacity
Laramie, Wyo., and Fernley, Nev.— Dallas-based Eagle Materials is proceeding with expansion of its Mountain Cement plant in Laramie and its Nevada Cement plant in Fernley at a cost of about $320 million. The expansions will increase the production capacity of the Laramie plant by 60 percent and double the ......
- Environmental Management Systems
The Portland Cement Association's (PCA) executive committee has approved a goal addressing the implementation of environmental management systems (EMS) for cement plants in the United States. At a meeting on July 28, the committee set goals for at least 40 percent of U.S. cement plants to have implemented an auditable ......
- Eagle Materials to expand Illinois Cement
plant.
* Eagle Materials Inc., a Dallas-based building materials manufacturer, has announced plans to expand its Illinois Cement Co. subsidiary's cement manufacturing plant in LaSalle, Ill. Eagle's board of directors has approved a $65 million expansion project with the goal of increasing the facility's production capacity by about 65 percent to ......
- MEXICO'S CEMEX BUYS P.R.
CEMENT.
Mexico's Cemex, the world's No. 3 cement maker, said it would acquire Puerto Rican Cement for about US$180 million and assume about US$70 million in debt, reports Reuters (June 12, 2002). Tricem Acquisition Corp., a subsidiary of Cemex, will launch a cash tender offer on or before July 2 for ......
- Holnam workers fret over future
LAPORTE - Workers at Holnam Inc.'s cement manufacturing plant in Laporte are worried that they might not have their jobs much longer, but company officials are denying any imminent move to shut down the 74-year-old plant. "People are seared," said a senior official of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, the ......