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What Is the Cement Manufacturing Industry in the Uk?
Dragon Portland Cement Cement is the most important ingredient in concrete, which is the world’s 2nd most consumed thing after water. Portland cement is a local product that is made in Britain and even invented in the UK. No school, house, road, hospital, or bridge could be built without it. Companies in this industry manufacture clinkers and hydraulic cement, including Portland cement, aluminous cement, and ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) cement.
Industry Products and Services
Portland cement Other hydraulic cement Cement clinker Aluminous cement Sonstige
Industry ActivitiesPortland cement manufacturing Clinker manufacturing Other hydraulic cement manufacturing Aluminous cement manufacturing
The cement industry contributes nearly a billion pounds annually to the UK economy. It operates 12 manufacturing and two grinding and blending plants and produces around ten million tonnes of Portland cement a year, representing about 90% of the cement sold in the UK.
Top Cement Manufacturers in Uk
The list of top cement companies in us are as follows.
Cemex.
Hanson Cement.
Breedon Cement.
Lafarge Cement.
Tarmac Cement.
Dragon Alfa Cement.
Southern Cement.Titan Cement.
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1. Cemex
CEMEX Cement is a global building Bulk Cement Suppliers UK with a presence in 50+ countries. In the UK, CEMEX holds the leading positions in cement, aggregates, and ready-mixed concrete. With more than a century’s worth of experience, the company serves all sectors of the major civil engineering contractors, including concrete product providers, the construction industry, ready mixed concrete manufacturers, and builders’ merchants.
In the UK, CEMEX has 3 cement plants, including the country’s largest cement manufacturing facility in Warwickshire, Rugby, where cement has been produced since the year 1860s. In the year 1990s, a number of old kilns were closed and replaced with award-winning kiln and a modern in Rugby that integrates pollution control in the design and has reduced sulphur dioxide emissions by 95% compared to the output of the previous kilns.
2. Hanson Cement
Hanson Cement is one of the UK’s best and cement suppliers UK of heavy building and construction materials to the construction industry, and it is a part of the HeidelbergCement Group, a global business with leading market positions in cement, aggregates, and ready-mixed concrete.
The UK cement division operates Padeswood in North Wales, kilns at Ketton in Rutland, and Ribblesdale in Lancashire, and also produces ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS), a cement replacement in precast concrete and ready-mixed, at Purfleet in Essex and Port Talbot in South Wales. The division includes a packed products business that sells a range of bagged cement and aggregates.
3. Breedon Cement
Breedon Cement’s headquarter is located in Derbyshire. Breedon Cement operates the UK’s largest cement factory or plant by capacity, production capacity around 1.5 MT (million tonnes) of cement each year, supported by almost 20 years of limestone reserves. It also imports cementitious products through two terminals in Scotland and northern England.
Our four strategically located rail-linked cement depots in England have more than a million tonnes of throughput capacity, including a state-of-the-art facility at Dagenham, which produces a range of packed cement products.
4. Lafarge Cement
Lafarge Cement group is run by Aggregate Industries, a leading brand in the infrastructure and construction industries.
Lafarge Group supplies and produces a wide range of construction materials, including asphalt, aggregates, precast concrete, and ready-mixed concrete products. Lafarge Group also imports, supplies, and produces cement materials and offers contracting service and a national road surfacing.
5. Tarmac Cement
Tarmac Cement is the UK’s leading and best sustainable construction solutions and building materials business. Our innovative solutions and services help us to deliver the infrastructure and industry needed to grow the economy currently and create a more sustainable built environment to support our future prosperity.
Tarmac Cement has 150 years of experience and heritage. Tarmac is a national network combining the knowledge and expertise and local businesses of two of the construction industry’s most iconic brands: pioneers, Tarmac, and inventors of the blue circle, and modern road, the company that patented Portland Cement.
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6. Dragon Alfa Cement
Dragon Cement is the best and leading cement import company in the UK. Dragon Cement has been successfully importing cement into the UK for the last 30+ years through our terminals in Portland and Sharpness.Dragon Cement is a Whole owned and subsidiary of the Cementos Portland Valderrivas group of companies. Dragon Cement is maintaining its independence in the United Kingdom with the support of one of the best-leading cement manufacturers in Europe.
7. Southern Cement
Southern Cement is fully operated by Irish Cement Ltd. It is Ireland’s leading cement producer for 80+ years. Both companies, Southern and Ireland are the part of CRH Group,and it is an international leader in building materials. From our terminals in Ipswich and Shoreham, we supply premium quality bulk and bagged cement products to customers in the South East and London construction markets. Customers outside of the South East of England are supplied by our sister company Premier Cement Ltd. from depots in Swansea, Liverpool, Salford, Howden and Montrose.
8. Titan Cement
TITAN Group is an international cement and building materials producer aspiring to serve the needs of society, while contributing to sustainable growth with responsibility and integrity.
The Group has cement production facilities in 10 countries and presence in more than 15 countries. With an annual capacity of 27 million metric tons of cement and cementitious materials, it employs about 5,500 people worldwide.
By actively participating in global collaborations and international organizations we aim to address global sustainability challenges, under the framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. We are a participant of the UN Global Compact (UNGC) and a core member of CSR Europe the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA).
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