Ash Grove Cement Company

Ash Grove Cement Company is a cement manufacturer based in Overland Park, Kansas. It was the largest US-owned cement company until it was acquired in 2018 by CRH plc, a global building materials business headquartered in Ireland.^[1]

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 cement manufacturing capacity from 12 plants:

The company makes Portland cements, fly ash 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.

Recent news

On October 20, 2017, Ash Grove announced^[2]^{[dead link‍]} that its stockholders had approved a plan for the company to be acquired by CRH plc, a global building materials business headquartered in Ireland.

On June 15, 2018, CRH plc announced that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission had issued its consent order for this transaction,^[3] thus completing the acquisition.

References

^ "Our Company". Ash Grove. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
^ "Ash Grove Cement Company Announces Stockholder Approval of Pending Acquisition by CRH plc". ASH GROVE.^{[dead link‍]}
^ "CRH announces completion of Ash Grove acquisition". www.crh.com.

External links

[1] "Our Company". Ash Grove. Retrieved 2022-02-24.

[2] "Ash Grove Cement Company Announces Stockholder Approval of Pending Acquisition by CRH plc". ASH GROVE.^{[dead link‍]}

[3] "CRH announces completion of Ash Grove acquisition". www.crh.com.

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