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Lafarge (Euronext: LG, NYSE: LR) is a French industrial company specializing in five major products: Cement, construction aggregates, concrete, gypsum wallboard, and roofing tile. Image File history File links Lafarge. ... Euronext N.V. is a pan-European stock exchange with subsidiaries in Belgium, France, Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom. ... The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ... In the most general sense of the word, cement is a binder, a substance which sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together. ... Look up Aggregate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Concrete is a construction material that consists, in its most common form, of Portland cement, construction aggregate (generally gravel and sand) and water. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Mission, or barrel, roof tiles For the towns named Tile, see Tile, Somalia and Tile, Lebanon. ...


History

 Lafarge was founded in 1833 by Joseph-Auguste Pavin de Lafarge at Le Teil (Ardèche), to exploit the famous limestone quarry in Mont Saint-Victor between Le Teil and Viviers. The limestone is white and argillaceous, and yielded an eminently hydraulic lime. It signed its first international contract for the delivery of 110,000 tonnes of lime to the Suez Canal construction project in 1864. Moving into cement manufacture, Lafarge established a reputation for effective and innovative R&D. It developed aluminous cements, and 'Lafarge' became a synonym for these cements throughout the English-speaking world. It was also an early pioneer in the production of white Portland fat, still made at the company's original Le Teil plant. 

In 1919, a public company was formed, named 'Société anonyme des chaux et ciments de Lafarge et du Teil'. By 1939, Lafarge had become the largest French cement manufacturer. 1833 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Ardèche is a département in south-central France named after the Ardèche River. ... Hydraulic lime is a variety of slaked lime used to make mortar. ... Ships moored at El Ballah during transit The Suez Canal (Arabic: ‎, translit: ), is a large artificial maritime canal in Egypt west of the Sinai Peninsula. ... 1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...


In 1980, it joined with the cement company Coppée to become SA Lafarge Coppée.


In 2001 Lafarge, then the world's second largest cement manufacturer, acquired Blue Circle Industries (BCI), which was then the world's sixth largest cement manufacturer, to become world leader. Blue Circle Industries was a British public company manufacturing cement. ...


In 2006 Lafarge North America shareholders accepted a $3 billion tender offer from Lafarge Group which gave the parent company full control over the North American business, removing LNA from the New York Stock Exchange. Previously the Group had owned 53% of LNA shares.


Currently, Lafarge is the largest cement manufacturing company in the world, employing over 80,000 workers, and is located in seventy-six countries. Lafarge's concrete business also includes specialty products such as concrete that is translucent to light, and tensile concrete known as Ductal that does not require steel reinforcements. In the most general sense of the word, cement is a binder, a substance which sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together. ... The old Steel cable of a colliery winding tower Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon content between 0. ...


External links

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  • Corporate History


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