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 Clinker was produced by wet-process kilns at 53 plants (includes Puerto
Rico) and by dry-process kilnsat 68 plants; 5 additional plants operated
both wet and dry kilns. The initiation of major plant modernization and expansion
projects, including the installation of dry-process kilns and preheaterprecalciner
systems, continued to decline. At yearend, there were 59 suspension and 18
grate preheaters in operation. 
 Capacity Additions Planned.—Box-Crow Cement Co., formerly Dal-Tex
Cement Corp., continued construction of a 1-millionton-per-year cement plant
near Midlothian, TX. The plant, which will be equipped with a coal-fired
preheater-precalciner system, was expected to go on-stream in December 
1986. 
Florida Crushed Stone Co. began construction of its 600,000-ton-per-year
cement plant in Brooksville, FL. The plant also will feature a 125-megawatt
power generation facility and the capacity to produce 350,000 tons per year
of lime. The cement portion of the plant was expected to go into production
in November 1986. The power generation and lime facilities were expected
to begin operation the first part of 1987. 
 Plant Closings.—General Portland closed the final kiln at its
Tampa,
FL, cement plant and signed a clinker supply contract with Mexico's Cementos
Apasco S.A. to replace clinker production at the plant. The plant will be
used exclusively for grinding Mexican clinker into finished portland cement.

 Genstar Cement and Lime Co.'s San Andreas, CA, plant remained closed through-

out the year. 
 Centex Corp.'s Corpus Christi, TX, plant closed and was used as a cement
distribution terminal. 
 Corporate Changes.—Allentown Cement Co. Inc., headquartered in
King
of Prussia, PA, acquired National Gypsum Co.'s Evansville, PA, cement plant
and distribution terminals at Bowie, MD, and Jersey City, NJ. 
 Ash Grove Cement Co. of Overland Park, 
KS, purchased Arkansas Cement Corp.'s 
Foreman, AR, cement plant and distribution terminals at Little Rock and Ft.
Smith, 
AR; Shreveport and Alexandria, LA; and 
Oklahoma City, OK. 
 Blue Circle Industries PLC, a large British cement company, acquired Atlantic
Cement Co.'s 1.5-million-ton-per-year portland cement plant at Ravena, NY,
its 80,000-tonper-year slag cement plant at Sparrows Point, MD, several distribution
terminals along the east coast, and a fleet of cementcarrying barges. 
 Columbia Northwest Corp., a subsidiary of Ashland Oil Inc., sold its Bellingham,
WA plant and distribution termmals in Anchorage, AK, Portland, OR, and Pasco
and Seattle, WA, to SME Cement Inc. of Bessemer, PA. 
 Independent Cement Co. purchased Lone Star Industries' Hagerstown, MD, plant
and Baltimore distribution terminal. 
 Kaiser Cement sold its Hawaiian cement plant and distribution facilities
to a new partnership formed by Lone Star Industries and the Australian firm
Adelaide Brighton Cement Holdings Ltd.