The Lehigh Valley Cement Industry

The Lehigh Valley Cement Industry
Author: Carol M. Front
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738538556

America's portland cement industry began in the Lehigh Valley. The rich deposit of limestone known as the Jacksonburg Formation arcs through the valley from Berks County, Pennsylvania, to Warren County, New Jersey, and today it still provides the raw material for the Lehigh district's famous high-quality portland cement. Cement from the Lehigh Valley built America's skyscrapers, dams, and highways. The Lehigh Valley Cement Industry documents not only the quarries and cement mills but also the dozens of companies that sprang up to supply and support the industry. The photographs also tell the stories of the people who formed the cement communities—the entrepreneurs, executives, engineers, and immigrants whose legacies live on in the five multinational companies still making cement in the valley.

Cement Production Technology

Cement Production Technology
Author: Anjan Kumar Chatterjee
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2018-04-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1351335731

The book is an outcome of the author’s active professional involvement in research, manufacture and consultancy in the field of cement chemistry and process engineering. This multidisciplinary title on cement production technology covers the entire process spectrum of cement production, starting from extraction and winning of natural raw materials to the finished products including the environmental impacts and research trends. The book has an overtone of practice supported by the back-up principles.

The Portland Cement Association's Guide to Concrete Homebuilding Systems

The Portland Cement Association's Guide to Concrete Homebuilding Systems
Author: Pieter A. VanderWerf
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1995
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780070670204

Your one-source guide to Concrete-Based Homebuilding Systems. Residential contractors, architects, and developers will welcome this first total guide to the latest concrete-based homebuilding systems (CBHSs). With lumber costs still on the rise after doubling the early '90s, The Portland Cement Association Guide to Concrete Homes, by Peter VanderWerf and W. Keith Munsel, can deliver, durable, cost-efficient, esthetically pleasing alternative building materials and construction methods. It's all spelled out in an authoritative sourcebook that explains and compares the various types of CBHSs and lists special materials and tools for building them--provides case histories of concrete homes already built and in use--and contains data vital to building professionals who want to learn tomorrow's techniques today.