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 according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a press release from Eagle Materials, the plans will expand the production capacity of Mountain Cement by 60 percent and double the production capacity of Nevada Cement, bringing both plants up to 1.1 million tons of cement production. The two projects are expected to cost approximately $320 million, according to the release. Both plants are expected to be operational by the fall of 2008. These projects, along with the previously announced expansion of Eagle's cement plant in LaSalle, Ill., represent an approximate 50 percent increase in Eagle's cement production capacity--from 2.65 million tons per year to 4 million tons per year. The company has also announced a 30 percent increase in production capacity at its greenfield Greenfield, town (1990 pop. 18,666), seat of Franklin co., NW Mass., at the confluence of the Deerfield and Green rivers, near their junction with the Connecticut; settled 1686, set off from Deerfield and inc. 1753. wallboard plant in Georgetown, S.C. The new plant will have an annual design capacity of 750 million square feet and is scheduled to begin operations in late 2007. Through its subsidiaries, Dallas-based Eagle Materials manufactures and distributes 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 . and construction products such as cement, gypsum gypsum (jĭp`səm), mineral composed of calcium sulfate (calcium, sulfur, and oxygen) with two molecules of water, CaSO4·2H2O. It is the most common sulfate mineral, occurring in many places in a variety of forms. wallboard, recycled paperboard paperboard, material similiar in shape and composition to paper, but generally thicker, stronger, and more rigid. Paper machines, e.g., Fourdrinier machines, are used to make sheets of paperboard. , concrete and aggregates. More information on Eagle Materials is available online at www.eaglematerials.com. |
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