Eagle Materials to expand Illinois Cement plant.* Eagle Materials Inc., a Dallas-based building materials Building materials used in the construction industry to create . These categories of materials and products are used by and construction project managers to specify the materials and methods used for . manufacturer, has announced plans to expand its Illinois Illinois, river, United States Illinois, river, 273 mi (439 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers, NE Ill., and flowing SW to the Mississippi at Grafton, Ill. It is an important commercial and recreational waterway. Cement cement, binding material used in construction and engineering, often called hydraulic cement, typically made by heating a mixture of limestone and clay until it almost fuses and then grinding it to a fine powder. Co. subsidiary's cement manufacturing plant in LaSalle Lasalle (ləsăl`) or Ville Lasalle (vēl), city (1991 pop. 73,804), S Que., Canada, SW of Montreal on the St. Lawrence River at the head of the Lachine Rapids. It is a suburb of Montreal. , 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 approximately 1.1 million tons of cement per year. The facility, which opened in 1974, currently has an annual capacity of approximately 670,000 tons of cement. Planning for the project has been completed and construction is set to begin in late 2006. |
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