Ash Grove Cement Company

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Ash Grove Cement Company is a cement manufacturer based in Overland Park, Kansas, USA. It is the sixth largest cement manufacturer in North America, and the largest US-owned cement company.

The company was established in 1882 at Ash Grove, Missouri as the Ash Grove White Lime Association. It commenced cement manufacture in 1908, with a plant at Chanute, Kansas. It now has an annual cement manufacturing capacity of nearly 9 million tons, from 9 plants:

• Chanute, Kansas 37°41′53″N, 95°27′36″W
• Durkee, Oregon 44°32′31″N, 117°25′16″W
• Foreman, Arkansas 33°41′45″N, 94°25′17″W
• Inkom, Idaho 42°47′29″N, 112°15′03″W
• Leamington, Utah 39°33′49″N, 112°11′49″W
• Louisville, Nebraska 41°00′18″N, 96°09′14″W
• Midlothian, Texas 32°31′14″N, 97°00′20″W
• Montana City, Montana 46°32′38″N, 111°55′17″W
• Seattle, Washington 47°34′05″N, 122°20′35″W

The company makes Portland cements, flyash cements, masonry cements, oilwell cements and soil stabilizers. It also operates a lime plant in Oregon, many ready-mix concrete plants in the Midwest, and a limestone quarry at Blubber Bay, Texada Island, British Columbia.

[edit] External links

• Ash Grove website