When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of companies and cities in Africa that manufacture cement

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_and...

    "Ghacem" is same as "Ghana Cement", and does not have 97% market share anymore because Buipe plant has been built, and is not really a subsidiary of Scancem, because Scancem is owned by Heidelberg Cement, and has two plants in Ghana : one in Tema, which was upgraded in November 2012 from 1.2 million tons per year to 2.2 Mton/year, and one in ...

  3. Dangote Cement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangote_Cement

    Obajana Cement Plc was incorporated in 1992. Dangote Cement Plc is a subsidiary of Dangote Group and is the largest company traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. [5] Dangote Cement listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in October 2010, and as at August 2014 accounts for 20% of the total market capitalization of the Exchange. [6]

  4. Lafarge Africa - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafarge_Africa

    West African Portland Cement company began operations in 1961 at Ewekoro, the firm was formally established in 1959 as a joint venture between Blue Circle, United Africa Company of Nigeria and the Western regional government in Nigeria. Blue Circle, previously known as Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers was Nigeria's largest supplier of ...

  5. BUA Cement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BUA_Cement

    The Cement Company of Northern Nigeria was incorporated in 1962 as the first cement manufacturing firm in the Northern Nigeria region. The first plant was built by a West German engineering firm at the cost of three million pounds. [7] The capacity of the first plant was 200,000 tonnes per annum producing through a dry process kiln.

  6. Bag (unit) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag_(unit)

    The Oxford English Dictionary has a definition of "bag" as "A measure of quantity for produce, varying according to the nature of the commodity" and has quotations illustrating its use for hops in 1679, almonds in 1728 (where it is defined by weight as "about 3 Hundred Weight" i.e. 336 pounds (152 kg) in Imperial units) and potatoes in 1845 ...

  7. Ready-mix concrete - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready-mix_concrete

    Concrete has a limited lifespan between batching / mixing and curing. This means that ready-mixed concrete should be placed within 30 to 45 minutes of the batching process to hold slump and mix design specifications in the US, [15] though in the UK, environmental and material factors, plus in-transit mixing, allow for up two hours to elapse. [16]

  8. 15 major U.S. cities where home prices have risen the most in 2024 eeing increased demand as buyers look for lower-cost alternatives outside more expensive markets. CBS News 1 month ago

  9. Portland cement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_cement

    2 per kg cement, low-efficiency wet process as high as 0.65, typical modern practices (e.g. UK) averaging around 0.30. [citation needed] Produced by vehicles in cement plants and distribution Almost insignificant at 0.002–0.005. So typical total CO 2 is around 0.80 kg (1.8 lb) CO 2 per kg finished cement. Electrical power generation